Bring Out Your Dead
The Bubonic Plague is alive and well in the United States!
Whatever Happened to... Project Mohole?
The story behind our aborted attempt to "journey to the center of the earth." A daring geological experiment foiled by political scandal, technical mismanagement and the Vietnam War.
Whatever Happened to... The Neutron Bomb?
The ultimate weapon of the Cold War was defeated not by military might, but political compromise. The saga of how everybody lost the race to create an arsenal of enhanced radiation weapons.
Technically Speaking
Selected excerpts from one of the most popular columns in IEEE Spectrum magazine. Humorous and insightful glimpses into the world of technical language and culture.
Do Not Read This While Bathing with Your Toaster!
A survey of silly product warning labels proves western civilization is in much worse shape than we thought...
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Improving the Power Efficiency of 8051-Based Designs
A technical paper about 8051 microcontrollers presented at the 1995 Portable by Design conference. This 280 KB document, stored in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format, may load slowly on computers manufactured before the development of the solid state transistor.
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