The story of titanium(construction-physics.com)

285 points by weird_user 2 years ago | 146 comments

An engineering history of the Manhattan Project(construction-physics.com)

127 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 65 comments

How We Got the Lithium-Ion Battery(construction-physics.com)

70 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 19 comments

How the gas turbine conquered the electric power industry(construction-physics.com)

73 points by jseliger 2 years ago | 43 comments

The Fall and Rise of Screwworm(construction-physics.com)

128 points by crescit_eundo 3 months ago | 54 comments

How an oil refinery works(construction-physics.com)

503 points by chmaynard 5 months ago | 175 comments

A Construction Physics article by Brian Potter explaining how oil refineries process crude oil into fuels and other products.

Why it's so hard to build a jet engine(construction-physics.com)

411 points by mhb 1 year ago | 198 comments

A Construction Physics essay by Brian Potter explaining why designing and manufacturing jet engines is so difficult.

Miscellanea: The War in Iran(acoup.blog)

508 points by decimalenough 7 months ago | 718 comments

A blog post on A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (ACOUP) by historian Bret Devereaux discussing the war in Iran.

Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz(responsiblestatecraft.org)

404 points by KoftaBob 6 months ago | 1076 comments

Responsible Statecraft article arguing why the US Navy will not use force against Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran(cnn.com)

1103 points by lavp 8 months ago | 2393 comments

CNN news report that Israel launched a strike against Iran and declared a nationwide state of emergency.

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants(dpa-international.com)

828 points by mpweiher 5 months ago | 844 comments

A dpa International news report that Belgium is halting the decommissioning of its nuclear power plants.

Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story(timesofisrael.com)

1509 points by defly 7 months ago | 948 comments

Times of Israel piece by a journalist describing death threats from Polymarket bettors demanding he rewrite an Iran missile story; page showed a Cloudflare check.