Courtney Humphries
We Weren’t Designed to Appreciate Good Perfume
Our sense of smell may have evolved to detect danger, not beauty.
How White Came to Be Synonymous With Clean and Good
White has a physical purity. White light contains roughly equal amounts of every color in the visual spectrum, and activates all three types of cone cells in our eyes related to color. As a result, we perceive materials that don’t absorb color, and reflect light back to us, as achromatic—white.The union of white and purity […]
Have We Hit Peak Whiteness?
Our obsession with cleanliness is running afoul of scientific reality.
Ingenious: John Ochsendorf
Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers.
Why We Should Let the Pantheon Crack
Modern architects have a lot to learn from the sound engineering of the ancients.
