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Fannie and Freddie’s mortgage blacklist, the air traffic controller shortage, the largest landowners in the US, a blended wing airliner, and more.
Jun 28
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Brian Potter
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Why Are Homes in Western States So Expensive?
Earlier this month I came across the following graphic, originally posted on Reddit in 2022, showing the state of housing affordability in the US.
Jun 26
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Brian Potter
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Reading List for 06/21/2025
Construction Physics email stats, why appliances break so often, a special economic zone for Silicon valley, a river filtering pool, and more.
Jun 21
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Brian Potter
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How Batteries Are Making the Electrical Grid More Reliable
To operate reliably, the US electrical grid needs to balance supply and demand: to make sure, at any given moment, that the amount of electricity…
Jun 19
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Brian Potter
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Reading List for 06/14/25
Figure’s new humanoid robot demo, what it would take to create the data for a robot foundation model, “right to repair” on naval vessels, electricity…
Jun 14
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Brian Potter
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Reading List for 06/07/2025
Risks to US battery storage, un-affordable affordable housing, a major Supreme Court NEPA ruling, making chip materials in space, and more.
Jun 7
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Brian Potter
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How Common Is Multiple Invention?
When Alexander Graham Bell filed a patent for the telephone on February 14th, 1876, he beat competing telephone developer Elisha Gray to the patent…
Jun 5
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Brian Potter
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Reading List for 05/31/2025
Wind wars, ALARA, power plant water use, grassroots opposition to data centers, and more.
May 31
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Brian Potter
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