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This is a guest post by Kris De Decker, founder and writer at Low-tech Magazine, an internet publication highlighting the need for elegant yet simple sustainable energy technologies. Read the article at Low Tech Magazine. Picture: Wire rope transmission...

One of the things that many electric vehicle owners don’t know is that the energy the cars report they use isn’t the same as what they draw from their power source. For many EVs, about 10-12% of drawn electricity is lost during the conversion process...

Joyce Riha Linik Writer As women stepped up to support the war effort during WWII, a top-secret Army programme in the US picked six female mathematicians to code instructions for ENIAC, the first all-electronic digital computer. Their programming work...

The mines at La Rinconada, a bitter-cold, mercury-contaminated pueblo clinging to the glaciered mountainside, are “artisanal”: small, unregulated, and grossly unsafe. To stave off disaster, the miners propitiate the mountain deities with tiny liquor...

IN 1917, the German political economist Max Weber gave an important lecture at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, which was entitled “Science as a Vocation.” Weber argued that the increased intellectualization and rationalization of Western...