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In an otherwise unpromisingly-titled article—“Could the US really release more of its strategic oil reserves?”

I’ve mentioned the following story to so many people, I thought I might as well put up a quick post about it.

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I was in Maastricht, Netherlands, for a couple nights last week, mostly as a way to break-up my trip across the Atlantic and thus help get over jet-lag before attending an archaeology conference (where I currently type this).

I recently had the pleasure of attending a press preview of the new documentary Architecton, directed by Victor Kossakovsky and released last week by A24.

A few weeks ago, The Economist looked at the growing problem of “ubiquitous technical surveillance” in the field of espionage.

Slag heap debris on the English coast has apparently been fusing into a new kind of sedimentary rock.

You’ve likely already seen the large complex of buildings in Shanghai that was picked up as a single block and walked to an adjacent site by a phalanx of miniature robots.

I find landfill chemistry weirdly fascinating, particularly the idea that untold millions of tons of garbage being stored in giant, artificial landforms—or simply buried underground like false geological deposits—might be inadvertently catalyzing chemical…

Recently, I’ve been looking back at a collaborative project with John Becker of WROT Studio.