Monthly Archives: September 2016

Marshall Stanton was nearing the end of a flight when the engine on his radio-controlled airplane stalled over a soybean field. Rather than tromp through the valuable vegetation northeast of Salina, to retrieve possible wreckage, he calmly turned the craft … Continue reading →

x Embed x Share Weather, long hours and complacency can lead to injuries on the farm. Jason Minto/The News Journal Bill Brown, right, an extension agent for the University of Delaware, explains safety rules in a ventilation test of a … Continue reading →

The Death and Life of Great American Cities is a book almost entirely bereft of photos and graphics. “There’s just a note from Jane Jacobs that basically says—and I’m paraphrasing here—’if you want to experience a city, go out onto … Continue reading →

Professor Jim Zhu’s office in Stocker Center is crammed with materials from projects new and old. Long equations fill a whiteboard on one wall. On another are photographs of a space shuttle in flight — a reminder of his time … Continue reading →

JAY, Vt. – From the tram, you can see a bird’s-eye view of Jay Peak resort. But if you rewind the clock for this story, that resort wasn’t even an idea yet and summer greenery was covered in snow. A sudden … Continue reading →

Matteo Pasquinelli To make machines look intelligent it was necessary that the sources of their power, the labor force which surrounded and ran them, be rendered invisible.—Simon Schaffer If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be … Continue reading →