Category: Matter & Engineering
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Anomaly in the Matrix: What a steel trash can teaches us about durability engineering (and ourselves)
1. Starting Point: Howard and the Vacuum Tube I recently finished reading Stephen King’s Fairy Tale. One of the characters, Howard Bowditch, loved everything old. In a world of massive, flat 8K screens, he stuck with his Zenith TV with “rabbit ears” antennas. Instead of replacing the TV with a new one, he simply went…