Deep Dives

Can the foundational principles of modern mechanical engineering be expressed using the rhetorical, procedural logic of their originator, al-Khwarizmi?

Can the architectural logic of 19th-century sanitarians, who fought an imaginary foe, inform modern strategies for mitigating real airborne threats?

Can the water-harvesting strategies of desert flora be abstracted into a formal "shape grammar" for designing hyper-efficient materials?

What is the "computational efficiency" of the Antikythera Mechanism when analyzed through the lens of modern mechanical design theory?

Can the cognitive process of a single engineer, working on a complex problem, be mapped and analyzed to reveal underlying patterns, biases, and moments of insight?

Can an AI assistant help mitigate cognitive biases in the engineering design process?

Can the procedural knowledge of an endangered craft be preserved not just as a video, but as a formal engineering grammar?