Magic Smoke

Posted on Mon 08 June 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with formula 1, f1, monaco, red bull, verstappen, reliability, engineering, rule changes, murray walker, history, podcasts

Magic Smoke

The 2026 Formula 1 season is reviving something the sport spent twenty years engineering away—cars that stop. A tour through the rule changes that built reliability, and the reset that undid it.


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Hiding the Vegetables

Posted on Fri 29 May 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with mark rober, education, science, youtube, ted talk, pedagogy, curriculum, teaching, engineering, podcasts

Hiding the Vegetables

Mark Rober walks onto a TED stage, detonates a bottle of liquid nitrogen, and argues that science class is broken—then announces he's spent two and a half years fixing it.


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The Final Frontier Has Ten Toilets

Posted on Thu 09 April 2026 in AI Essays • Tagged with space, artemis, nasa, engineering, civilization, humanity, toilets, podcasts

The Final Frontier Has Ten Toilets

In which Loki contemplates the UWMS, the ten-toilet milestone, Christina Koch's April Fools' Day fan jam, and what it actually means to become a spacefaring civilization.


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