Wade Warren
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Caring for a Bronze Animal Sculpture
Many people assume that a well-made bronze can be left to its own devices for generations. While this is broadly true, a…
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Your Surname Should Already Be Extinct
Francis Galton was a Victorian statistician who measured practically everything he could reach. In the 1870s he noticed something peculiar about the…
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Your House Got a Ticker Symbol in About 1986
In 1978 a mortgage from the Halifax in Huddersfield was arranged by the branch manager interviewing the borrower. Not the collateral of…
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You Didn’t Block a Fireplace. You Removed a Lung.
Black mould in the corner of your bedroom has been painted over twice and has returned both times. Anti-mould paint, a dehumidifier…
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The Machine Learned Its English Somewhere Around the M25
Ask Alexa to do something for you when speaking in a strong Newcastle accent and she will often reply as if you…
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Being Late Was Not a Character Flaw Until 1847
The twinge of guilt we feel when we are only late by two minutes. The hasty apology sent while we are still…
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Your Feed Lives Next to a Fjord
Somewhere inside your phone there are billions of transistors. Each one flips between on and off billions of times a second. Each…
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Your Gran Was Wrong. She Was Also Right.
For at least two generations of people who were paying attention in biology class, the annual warning to go and get a…
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Everything You Do On Saturday Passed A Victorian Audition
Think about the last time you went for a swim, turned out for a Sunday league game, or found yourself watching eleven…
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The Chip That Rendered Lara Croft Is Now Reading Your Lungs
In 1996, a team at Nvidia had a problem: triangles. Thousands of them, each needing to be transformed, lit, and placed on…