The United States Women’s National Soccer team is one of the most successful and celebrated sports teams in sport. Below is a radial data map of individual player statistics (including games played, started, goals, assists and more). The data – sourced from US Soccer – only goes back to 2015, but gives a clear view […]
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UPDATE: Congratulations Keith for winning the poster raffle! The math proved to be on your side! + thank you for everyone who contributed. Check out this blog post to see the full breakdown as well as the responses I received from the respective organizations. The work doesn’t stop here though! Keep talking about these elections […]
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If you crafted a witty comment or hashtag about the upcoming ‘2020 Vision’ the new year would bring to your life, you weren’t alone. I was guilty of this when thinking about cheesy taglines for our since unprinted wedding invitations. Still, this year has enabled new and unique forms of reflection and asks what solutions […]
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AT ONE POINT OR ANOTHER, we all experience exclusion in our lives. Rarely, however, is it as collective an experience as this past spring has been. Whether it has been exclusion from your place of work or worship, or the ones you love —physical distance is something we can never truly transcend. As we continue […]
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ON A RECENT TRIP TO JAPAN, I was reminded yet again of how many shapes and forms progress can take. For me, Japan is a magical and mysterious place, full of order, creativity, and an unspoken concentration to detail. While the heyday of Japanese electronic design and production often seems to have passed, subtle innovations […]
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WE BEGAN THIS SERIES by gazing out into star-filled space, just as our prehistoric ancestors did before us. Much to our surprise, however, the starkest revelation was gifted by the brave astronauts in NASA’s Apollo 8 mission, who thankfully reversed our view by bringing back the first image of our precious Earth. Now, as we look […]
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THIS SUMMER, ALL AROUND THE WORLD people celebrated the 50th anniversary of one of humankind’s greatest technological achievements: the successful Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Riding in the wake of Neil Armstrong’s famous small step came a steadily rising tide of technological innovation that has carried us well into the 21st-century. Interestingly, however, the Apollo […]
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Rechargeable residential battery storage for residential use is quickly becoming an essential component in resilient-sustainable residential design. There is a combination of factors driving the proliferation of energy management and energy storage devices in the residential sector. Propane-powered backup generators have been used for years in areas that suffer power outages on a regular basis […]
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In 1963, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed that our foremothers and fathers in Virginia and Massachusetts “gave reverent thanks for their safety, for the health of their children, for the fertility of their fields, for the love which bound them together.” Later in 1986, upon designation of a week of American Indian observance that coincided […]
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Deep in the programmer-heavy corridors of Twitter is an emerging art scene. You could deem it digital, but some days it feels more than that. Ever since Google released its “deep dream” code in 2015, and the world looked through the eyes of artificially intelligent neural networks, I’ve tried to keep tabs on this space. […]
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The month of March marks Women’s History Month in the United States. On March 8th, millions around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. Since taking on the role of a youth technology teacher, it’s been important to better educate myself on the largely untold, yet dramatic effect women of all stripes have had on technological […]
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Hemp is an uncanny plant, with properties and benefits that extend well beyond its early adopters’ wildest dreams. Early remnants of what designers, builders, and contractors may know as ‘hempcrete’ actually goes back as far as the 6th century in southern France, when builders started mixing hemp hurds with lime to create a naturally fire […]
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There’s a well-known designer from Denmark streamlining abstract architecture into mainstream culture. Headlining major builds across the globe, he illustrates intention and ingenuity on wonderful scales. From the Google’s Bayshore Campus to the Two World Trade Center in New York, Bjarke Ingles and his team are on a global architecture tour without a ceiling in sight. Actively promoting sustainable […]
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This piece originally appeared in Technology Insider Group. Depending on the nature of your news feed, a message wishing you a “Happy 808!” on August 8th may have crossed one of your screens. If an 808 celebration isn’t something you regularly do, this is why you might want to consider it in the future. The […]
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This piece originally appeared in Technology Insider Group. Monday June 11th, 2018 marked the end of the rules imposed by the Obama Administration known as Net Neutrality. At its core, Net Neutrality sought to negate the powers of broadband companies and other internet service providers (ISP’s) to favor any particular website or content distributor over any other […]
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