Cycles of Change

Engineering practical systems and exploring the physical world.

Highway shoulders across the country show a startling growth of discarded tech trash resting in the grass. Drivers toss spent plastic vapes out car windows without thinking about the toxic waste left behind on the dirt. These bright plastic tubes hold lithium battery cells, metal coils, tiny chips, [...]
Modern life faces a quiet crisis born from the split between mind and matter. In the sixteen hundreds, French thinker René Descartes declared that conscious thought stood separate from the flesh. His famous statement that thought proves existence placed cold logic high above body feeling and [...]
Human thinkers long maintained a deep divide between two rival ways of understanding the world. For centuries, scholars treated the cosmos as an elaborate clock of separate pieces running under rigid rules. René Descartes and Isaac Newton provided the math foundation for this view during the [...]
The modern industrial engine operates on a linear trajectory of extraction, production, and disposal. This mechanism creates a systemic friction between economic activity and the finite physical limits of the planetary environment. While previous efforts focused on individual awareness and moral [...]