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Brendan Brown
Contributor at Make Tech Easier
- 19 articles
- Writing since 2026
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- + News A 376-foot concrete cooling tower at a West Virginia coal plant no longer meets its design loads after 55 years, so… Oct 23, 2026
- + News Every Starship upper stage SpaceX has ever flown has finished in the ocean, and the company now plans to fly the next… Oct 23, 2026
- + Curiosities A 1,680-ton boring machine that arrived from Germany in about 100 pieces has started chewing into the Palisades cliffs… Oct 22, 2026
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- Oct 21, 2026 A 100,000-ton aircraft carrier running four years behind schedule caught its first F-35C on a wire off Virginia on the… + News
- Oct 20, 2026 A 990-foot ocean liner that still holds the transatlantic speed record from her maiden voyage in 1952 will be sunk in… + Curiosities
- Oct 20, 2026 A 228-year-old wooden warship still in active Navy commission sailed out of Boston this summer for America’s 250th… + Curiosities
- Oct 19, 2026 An 18-year-old in West Cork, Ireland mixed vegetable oil with magnetite powder to make a magnetic liquid that grabs… + Curiosities
- Oct 19, 2026 A steam locomotive built in Leeds in 1855 and shipped to India to haul mail trains was still pulling passenger trips… + Curiosities
- Oct 19, 2026 A 2019 claim that Britain could cut 16,433 tonnes of carbon a year if everyone sent one fewer “thank you” email went… + Curiosities
- Oct 13, 2026 A 14-year-old in Pennsylvania mounted a webcam outside her family’s Jeep and projected the feed onto the pillar beside… + Curiosities
- Oct 13, 2026 A bell in an Oxford University physics lab has been ringing almost nonstop since 1840 on the same pair of dry-pile… + Curiosities
- Jul 23, 2026 Research suggests the feeling that time speeds up with age can be shaped by fewer temporal landmarks + Lifestyle
- Jul 21, 2026 Psychology says the rarest mental strength today isn't resilience or grit + Psychology
- Jul 21, 2026 Psychology says the loneliest people in life aren't the ones nobody likes + Psychology
- Jul 20, 2026 Behavioral scientists found that people without children develop a relationship to mortality that is psychologically… + Lifestyle
- Jul 20, 2026 Psychology says people who stack their plates and tidy up before leaving a restaurant aren't trying to impress anyone + Lifestyle
- Jul 20, 2026 I grew up lower-middle class and I've noticed that every time I'm asked to describe my childhood I instinctively say… + Lifestyle
- Jul 19, 2026 Psychology says the loneliest people in a room are often the most socially skilled because they learned early to… + Lifestyle
- Jul 17, 2026 Psychology says the most dangerous form of loneliness isn't being alone + Lifestyle