Short Circuits: What’s Going On With GameStop Stock
GameStop stock blew up. Should you care? No, not really. But you shouldn’t buy it.
Read More
Detroit City Council Votes To Sue Black Lives Matter Protesters
The 5-4 vote marks a growing strain between the Duggan Administration and advocates for social and economic justice in a majority black city.
Read MoreRight of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (2020) is a must-read
Read More
Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car, by Alex Davies
Weekend Read. This book, Driven: The Race To Create the Autonomous Car, is worth reading for anyone who is interested
Read More
From Fantasy To Innovation: The Autonomous Car in Film History
Rudolf Zehetgruber’s 1971 West German film, “Ein Käfer geht aufs Ganze,” is a primitive example of autonomous cars in film, traveling off the beaten path made before it by the likes of Disney’s Herbie (1968).
Read MoreJames Brown Feels Good (About Weatherization)
One of the weirder things I’ve come across in the past year– apart from Soviet Cookiemonster, our second-most viewed post
Read More
Rivers and Roads (and the World’s Largest Dam Removal)
In the Olympic Peninsula, dam removals on the Elwha River and resulting road washouts lead us to question the compatibility of changing ecosystems and unchanging infrastructure.
Read More
Unto The Flame: Managing A Literal Dumpster Fire
The end of 2020 (and my second-to-last-ever quarter in school) provided a good opportunity to think about all of the awful things we wanted to send off into the fire– literally.
Read MoreBook Review: The Firm – The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (2014)
MCKINSEY. EVERY B-SCHOOL BRO KNOWS THE NAME. Many more Americans learned the name after facing the presidential prospects of a
Read More
Why Is Detroit Giving Industrial Slumlords Like Moroun A Free Pass?
The owners of the Ambassador Bridge, their trucking empire, and a plethora of shell corporations own many acres of prime real estate close to Detroit’s downtown. Why have they avoided regulatory scrutiny?
Read More