Popular Science - USA (2020 - Spring)
habitat- restoration project ever. Biologists, botanists, and volunteers planted tens of thousands of indigenous trees, grasses, ...
The birth of a new trend puts everyday people in control of the data that maps our planet. A WORLD OF THEIR ...
THE SNOW HASN’T STARTED YET THIS October evening in Boulder, Colorado, but the sharp wind and low clouds around Backcountry Pizz ...
interpretation in real time, providing the power to in- vestigate any place as it is right now. In effect, anyone could find a l ...
KOLLER NAMED THE GEOINT SINGULARITY the way you might name an unbuilt city for which you hadn’t drawn blueprints yet. While the ...
COLORADO IS A GEOSPATIAL HUB OF SORTS: It’s home to Maxar, NOAA offices, and a cluster of younger satellite startups, all of the ...
the Denver area is changing so rapidly, the map- pers hope to keep updating the buildings, creating a historical record—a sort o ...
HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT DINOSAURS LOOKED LIKE? YOU’VE SEEN ENOUGH MUSEUM models, illustrations, and CGI pred- ators that you’d likel ...
SKIN Soft tissue generally doesn’t last underground, but sometimes we get lucky. For the T. rex, a small slice of fossilized ski ...
Perfection often requires iteration. Even after releasing a product, designers, pro- grammers, and engineers will continue to re ...
POPSCI.COM/ SPRING 2020 71 Otto Rohwedder reinvented bread when he created the first machine to slice it. His local paper called ...
72 BORN 1890 Your name for the venerable CMU probably depends upon where you live, but cinder block, breeze block, and hollow bl ...
POPSCI.COM/ SPRING 2020 73 Before this ubiquitous office staple (sorry) came along, people used pins, ribbons, string, and other ...
74 Legend has it that metallurgist Avedis Zildjian hoped to make gold when he mixed copper and tin with a substance held secret ...
BERKEL FLYWHEEL MEAT SLICER BORN 1898 Cutting a few hunks off a salami or ham is not too stren- uous. Shaving thousands of paper ...
76 BORN 1842 Simple as it might seem, the adjustable wrench is an engineering marvel. Rotate its screw mechanism with your thumb ...
POPSCI.COM/ SPRING 2020 77 BORN 1937 When industrial designer Egmont Arens sought to make a countertop version of the 80-quart b ...
78 HONDA SUPER CUB BORN 1958 SU PE R^ CU B: D OR LIN G^ KI ND ER SL EY LT D. /A LA M Y^ ST OC K^ PH OT O Back in the 1950s, many ...
POPSCI.COM/ SPRING 2020 79 The M3 found immediate success with photojournalists because of its speedy shooting. Instead of using ...
80 The engine in a Porsche 911 sits at the very back, a design that eschews the conventional wisdom that most of a vehicle’s mas ...
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