Reading Lists

Reading List 08/02/2025

European multifamily construction, a robot lamp, China’s self-driving car test, a “mini Moravec's paradox”, and more.

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Reading List 07/26/25

An important FAA rule change, construction microfactories, recycling data center waste heat, the rise and fall of MATLAB, and more.

Jul 26 •

Reading List 07/19/25

Chinese shipbuilding, air quality around the world, construction equipment automation, a worldwide map of lightning strikes, and more.

Jul 19 •

Reading List 07/12/2025

25 years of earthquakes, Google’s 2013 efforts to build a phone in the US, bear attacks in Japan, coal seam fires, and more.

Jul 12 •

Reading List 07/05/2025

A microscopic electric motor, California’s CEQA rollback, a US shipbuilding startup, Chinese map obfuscation, and more.

Jul 5 •

Reading List 06/28/25

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 •

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 •

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 •

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 •

Reading List for 05/31/2025

Wind wars, ALARA, power plant water use, grassroots opposition to data centers, and more.

May 31 •

Reading List 05/24/25

Tulsa’s remote worker incentives, the “stolen iPhone building”, the Trump administration’s shipbuilding struggles, falling traffic law enforcement, and…

May 24 •

Reading List for 05/17/2025

The “Safe System” of road design, a manufactured “superwood”, concrete sphere batteries, Tesla’s insurance arm, the University of Nebraska’s drought…

May 17 •

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