Reading Lists

Reading list 02/14/26

Welcome to the reading list, a weekly list of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

Feb 14 • Brian Potter

Reading List 02/06/2026

Welcome to the reading list, a look at what happened this week in infrastructure, buildings, and building things.

Feb 6 • Brian Potter

Reading List for 01/31/2026

Welcome to the Reading List, a weekly roundup of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

Jan 31 • Brian Potter

Reading List 01/24/26

Welcome to the reading list, a weekly list of news and links related to buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

Jan 24 • Brian Potter

Reading List 01/17/2026

ALARA, OLED screens, bus stop frequency, Ozempic and airlines, and more.

Jan 17 • Brian Potter

Reading List 1/10/2026

Waymos as kid shuttles, naval reactors for data centers, welder’s anthrax, flood buyouts, and more.

Jan 10 • Brian Potter

Reading List 01/03/2026

Automated code checkers, meranti wood, shifting snowfall patterns, launching spacecraft with bullwhips, and more.

Jan 3 • Brian Potter

Reading List 12/20/25

Tesla’s robotaxi crash reports, a fusion startup merger, the decline of US injection molding, Wyoming’s snow fences, and more

Dec 20, 2025 • Brian Potter

Reading List 12/13/2025

Boom Supersonic’s gas turbine, the reliability of learning curves, a fake bridge collapse, using coal mines for geothermal energy, and more.

Dec 13, 2025 • Brian Potter

Reading List 12/06/2025

3D printed legos, exploding wire detonators, the David Taylor model basin, multi-point metal forming, and more.

Dec 6, 2025 • Brian Potter

Reading List 11/29/25

NIMBYism and aesthetics, defibrillator drones, railway track detonators, a proposed mach-23 space gun, and more.

Nov 29, 2025 • Brian Potter

Reading List 11/22/25

The ship failure that caused the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, the boring part of Bell Labs, a more efficient way of making antimatter, underground…

Nov 22, 2025 • Brian Potter

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