Category: Explainers

I was hunched over my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through a jeweler’s loupe at the escapement of a 19th-century French carriage clock, when I realized how much modern security talk…

I was sitting at my workbench last Tuesday, squinting through a jeweler’s loupe at the escapement of a 19th-century carriage clock, when my grandson asked me if his messages were…

I spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom, and if there is one thing I learned, it’s that people will sell you a “miracle” solution just because they can’t explain…

I spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom teaching students that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed. It’s a fundamental law. Yet, when I look at the fine…

I remember sitting at my workbench last summer, squinting through a jeweler’s loupe at the escapement of a 19th-century carriage clock, when my phone buzzed with a notification that felt…

I spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom watching students stare blankly at equations, waiting for the moment the math finally clicked into something real. Most tech reviewers do the…

I spent forty years teaching physics, and if there is one thing I learned, it is that people love to wrap simple mechanics in layers of unnecessary jargon to make…

Last Tuesday, I was hunched over my workbench, squinting through a jeweler’s loupe at the guts of a supposedly “ruggedized” digital watch that had promised the world. The casing was…

I spent thirty-four years in a physics classroom, and if there is one thing I learned, it’s that people love to hide behind complicated numbers to sell you something you…

I spent forty years teaching teenagers that you can’t skip the fundamentals, and yet, I see people every day throwing money at “magical” charging pads that don’t even work with…