- I’ve rented DVDs from Netflix for half my life – streaming is a poor substitute. [The Guardian]
- The Glorious Return of a Humble Car Feature. “Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touch screens. Buttons are back!” [Slate]
- Agriculture in the Ancient Maya Lowlands (Part 2): Landesque Capital and Long-term Resource Management Strategies. [Journal of Archaeological Research] “We demonstrate long-lasting agricultural investments by Maya people, in social capital including multigenerational land tenure, in cultivated capital including long-lived trees, and in landesque capital including soil amendments and landscape engineering projects, such as terracing and wetland modification.”
- Archaeologists are unlocking the secrets of Maya lime plasters and mortars. [ars technica]
- When innovation goes south: The tech that never quite worked out. [ars technica] “We don’t need new gadgets; we need to use antibiotics more sparingly.”
- “RAIN was planting the seeds”: An Interview with Tom Bender, co-editor of RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology. [Open Edition Journals]
No Tech Reader #39
April 30, 2023 by Filed Under: Books & Reference, Building materials, Digital technology, Farming, Internet, No Tech Readers
