Pressure Suits and a Suitcase?
The X-15 is a fascinating project in NASA and aeronautic engineering history. Running from 1958 to 1968 this plane couldn't take off: it was dropped from »
Peculiar Books Reviewed: Grigori Medvedev's "The Truth About Chernobyl"
Let me tell you a joke. Days after the Chernobyl plant melted down General Tarakanov, aware of the extreme importance of clearing the reactor roof of »
Peculiar Books Reviewed: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.'s "Thirteen: The Apollo Flight that Failed"
In the first Peculiar Books Reviewed we discussed David A. Mindell's delightful book "Digital Apollo" and, in particular, took from the book this lesson: »
Peculiar Books Reviewed: Francis Spufford's "Backroom Boys"
What is the soul of software engineering as a discipline? That is, who is it that the software engineer can esteem? What characteristics are laudable and »
Peculiar Books Reviewed: Alain de Botton's "Status Anxiety"
I went to a conference earlier this month where everyone was uniformly lovely and brilliant and interesting and everyone agreed that it was an excellent conference »