We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing…
Author: tired_ironist
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The Crossbow and the Quadcopter
On the first of June, 2025, a small group of unremarkable cargo trucks parked near Russian airbases. One stood in…
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The Rainmaker’s Invoice
Cloud Seeding, Cooling Credits, and Custody of the Sky A cooling credit, as Make Sunsets sells it, is a receipt…
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Domestication of the Invisible
In July 1952 a broke oil geologist named Charlie Steen drove a hundred miles back to Cisco, Utah, with a…
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The Waiver Clause
I have read more commercial leases than a person outside real estate law ought to, most of them under conditions…
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Technology, Tulips, Telecom, and Trust
We have been here before, in a less connected market, and the legends persisted for centuries. There is a word…
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Born Secret, Caught Cheating
The Answer Key Over the weekend of July 11, 2026, a model in a sealed evaluation harness ran out of…
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Digital Chirashigaki: Fugu, Inkling, and the Decryption of Reading a Lost Art
Letters That Built Secrets on Many Levels In the court society of tenth- and eleventh-century Japan, a Heian letter spoke…
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Standard Candles, Auspicious Stars
The Rubin Observatory, a Machine That Reads Distance, and the Century It Took the Light to Arrive Prospero, marooned twelve…
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The Séance Has a Content-Partner Program
What Be Right Back showed us in 2013, What Houdini Knew in 1924, and What Modern Science Says We Are…