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The Oldest Mystery  By Joe Cozart ~ “Always looking for the truth that neither side is aware of possessing.” Every generation has been tempted to believe that it stands at the threshold of final understanding. Each imagines that the great mysteries have been reduced to a manageable number and that the remaining questions are merely technical problems awaiting better instruments. History has…

[…] The loss of the security of a home is, in some way, the loss of the heart of things, and the most local and personal manifestation of triumph of the Machine.’

A good maker story is not just about a clever build. It is about what the project teaches, what problem it solves and what curious readers can borrow for their own experiments. Maker projects matter because they show technology at work with the cover removed: parts, constraints, mistakes, trade-offs and the small decisions that make an idea real. (more…)

By Joe Cozart Every so often, I come across a piece of writing that causes me to stop reading and simply think. This was one of those moments. An old friend’s husband shared a reflection on his thirty-second wedding anniversary. His wife, Amy, my ikr friend, is in the advanced stages of frontotemporal dementia. She no longer recognizes him. The woman he married has, in so many ways, already…