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The Car Trap
Getting rid of my car has been a long-term goal of mine, one I finally achieved a few months ago after moving back to what seems to be America’s only truly walkable city.
Ladies' Mechs
It’s a notorious spot; everyone breaks down there. The white-chalk soil gives way to black slate, and the road, just there, is paved with black bricks. This road, having run for some distance under shade, along the cool green waters of the canal, t...
SMART 2025 Highlights the Potential of Engineered Wood
This summer at Yale, over the course of two days in August, the Center for Materials Innovation (CMI) convened a multidisciplinary conference to explore recent and emerging innovations in engineered wood. The fourth in a series of SMART (Sustainable ...
The Perils of Walking in Connecticut
Let’s begin with an anecdote. I was in Fairfield, Connecticut, in the passenger seat of my friend C.K.’s car, when we passed a woman walking by the side of the road. “This poor woman,” C.K. remarked. “I see her all the time. I think she has...
Ladies' Mechs
I first encountered Léoc Lin on the Engineer’s Road, near the black arch, at the edge of the wood that lies between the provinces and the capital. It’s a notorious spot; everyone breaks down there. The white-chalk soil gives way to black slate...