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Pickled Thoughts

Monday, June 2, 2003

Who invented pickles? I don’t really know, but I know I sure love them. And, while eating a pickle this weekend, I started to wonder about them. What does it say about a culture to have started making pickles? Lots of cultures have pickles of one kind or another, and have had them for a [...]

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Ancient Invention

Saturday, April 26, 2003

Engineering before engineers. Well, at least, before engineers as we know them. Certainly, long before engineering degrees from universities! The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention and Engineering in the Ancient World (which is an updated version of a book I bought some time ago), both lay out some interesting ideas [...]

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Building a better monster

Thursday, January 2, 2003

Build a better monster and the victims will beat a path to your door. Well, maybe that’s a bit extreme, but you get the idea. There was a show on Animal Planet of all things that really got me thinking about this. It was called The Future is Wild and it was all about ways [...]

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