Collect, Save, Adapt: Making and Unmaking Ex Situ Worlds

Habits, Their Making and Unmaking

The Making and the Unmaking of a Dullard

relations, but as bushels of wheat, sacks of corn, fence boards, and barn timbers. His study of mechanics began with an "old oaken bucket" swung from an iron pulley, progressed through the grindstone stage to the mechanism of a reaper, to the profound discovery that the turning of a small gear moved a larger one more slowly but with greater power, and finally broke out into an ecstasy of deligh...

Making Borders, Making Worlds

On a wintry night, sixty-year-old Gulya was preparing to cross the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan border.1 Although she had made this once simple journey countless times in her life, this would be her final and most dangerous attempt. The decision to undertake it had effectively been made for her by the recent leveling of the home in which she had lived with her husband for some forty years. It was dest...

Fabrication of Ti3SiC‌‌2-SiC max phase composites via in-situ and ex-situ synthesis

Recently, a series of three-component compounds with the combination of Mn+1AXn known as Max phases have been considered as a new material. One of the most important features of Max phases, is the self-healing property of them. The main reason for considering Max Phases is a unique collection of unusual properties including their metallic, ceramic, physical, and mechanical properties. One of th...

Making Decisions in Large Worlds