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Fallingwater: A Building That Bonds With Nature and Dances With Time

A visit to Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous American home.

June 10, 2015

To Save California, Read “Dune”

Survival on a fictional desert planet has a lesson for the drought-stricken state.

June 1, 2015

Ingenious: John Ochsendorf

Meet the architectural rebel who champions ancient engineers.

May 21, 2015

Why We Should Let the Pantheon Crack

Modern architects have a lot to learn from the sound engineering of the ancients.

May 19, 2015

Meet the 17-Year-Old, Award-Winning, Rube Goldberg Parts Manufacturer

Tommy George and the Agents of SHIELD shot a Nerf ball and erased a whiteboard.

April 29, 2015

How the Computer Got Its Revenge on the Soviet Union

Condemned as a capitalist tool, the computer would help expose the USSR’s weakness.

April 2, 2015

Will Humans Be Able to Control Computers That Are Smarter Than Us?

Let’s consider the fear that once surrounded another powerful technology: recombinant DNA.

February 20, 2015