Some Victorians earn a glance. This one earns a U-turn. The reason is the turret — a round corner tower rising through both stories in
Month: July 2026
A few years ago, after a funeral, I watched three adult siblings stand around a kitchen table and divide what their father had left. There
Why Blue Ribbon Team and The Cernunnos Foundation Are Leaving the Fediverse UPDATE: Mastadon did reverse the strikes and purge. We will continue our migration
Bright Meadow Group Culture Design Government Intellectual Property Science and Research Thought Experiments
The Next Carrington is due, maybe
The Paper Layer An ODI Brief on Solar Storm Risk and the Continuity of Civil Memory Bright Meadow Group treats infrastructure as a system of
The Road to Mars Runs Through Earth Another round of commentary has surfaced lately about Elon Musk’s apparent governing philosophy: get humanity to Mars, whatever
The Twin Stack: An Open Design for Passive Air Cleaning at the Source A Bright Meadow Group concept paper. Published free for use anywhere, by
Sit down a minute. Get some water first — I mean that. It’s July, and July doesn’t negotiate. I’ve been watching the thermometer and the
The Day I Put My Phone Face-Down and Couldn’t Leave It There I want you to know I tried to write about peaches this week.
The Navy Rediscovers the Useful Ship What the Combat Stores Ship Knew Navies are remembered by their fighting ships. The public remembers carriers, battleships, submarines
Artificial Intelligence Bright Meadow Group Design Energy Environmental Government Navy Science and Research Thought Experiments
Ship to Shore Data
THE GRAY HULL DIVIDEND: The Navy Is Retiring a Data Center Fleet An expansion of the over-river data center concept The forecast: why the hulls
The Double Hull Part Three of Three Part One claimed the air over urban rivers as the next land rush. Part Two put a promenade
A Promenade at the Point Part Two of Three Part One argued that the air over urban rivers is the last unlisted real estate in
The Next Urban Land Rush Part One of Three Every American city with a river running through it is sitting on a real estate inventory
THE HOUSES WE LET GO: BLIGHT, THE TAX BASE, AND A NEW TOOL AIMED AT BOTH Walk any of the older neighborhoods in this city
We See You in the Server Logs: A Note to the Students Citing Us Something interesting has been showing up in our traffic reports. Alongside
Grid Stability with Salt: The Case for Distributed Sodium-Ion Storage A Bright Meadow Group Concept Paper The Premise The American grid has a timing problem.
Fair Winds, Old Girl: Saying Goodbye to USS Nimitz (CVN-68) The photograph doesn’t flatter her, and that’s the point. This is USS Nimitz at a
There is a week-old jar of honey on my kitchen table that I have been meaning to give to my neighbor, and this morning, reading
Take That, You Paparazzi Scum Every celebrity eventually snaps. The flashbulbs, the long lenses, the total strangers camped outside your home at dawn — sooner
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Data Center Problems, or Public Ones?
The Data Center Problem Is Mostly a Zoning Problem A Bright Meadow Group position paper We are spending an extraordinary amount of time arguing about
The Big Beautiful Bill, One Year Later ONE YEAR ON THE BOOKS: THE BILL COMES DUE IN THE ALLEGHENIES This bird keeps a ledger. Been
The River Refugium Project: A Complete Reader’s Map Everything we’ve published on nutrient pollution, aquaponics, and the River Refugium Project — organized so you can
A young fella asked me the question last week. Good worker, honest hands, no malice in him. He said, “Mr. Wright, why does labor need
Man Made Special Edition: Big Boy No. 4014 Crosses the Stone Bridge At 12:21 this afternoon, the largest operating steam locomotive on Earth crossed the
Overheard at the Corner Table It’s scarf weather again — the light gray one with the coffee stain I’ve decided is decorative — and I’ve
Vehicles don’t usually make this page. Buildings hold still for me. But every once in a while something rolls past that earns its second look
Island Cuisine Caribbean Restaurant — A Blue Ribbon With a Long Drive Attached The State Fair has a category for everything, and if it had
Congress Shall: The Off-Ramp Is Behind Us A second open letter to the conservatives of America, and a renewed Citizens’ Petition for Articles of Impeachment
A Big Chicken With a Tail The thoroughly-thought-out case that Tyrannosaurus rex was a bird — and would have opened you up like a cassowary.
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Audit Everything
The Map We Inherited Over the last three pieces I’ve been pulling a single thread through what look like unrelated topics. In Early Egyptians Were
The Continent We Were Allowed to See The last two pieces argued that the record was falsified along one axis — that Egypt was written
Everybody has a dollar. kick a buck. Here is what yours can do: There’s a dollar somewhere near you right now. It’s in the cupholder
A City Skyline on the Ohio River There is a particular authority to a skyline viewed from across a river. From this side of the
A thought experiment after “Early Egyptians Were Blackity Black” Once you let Egypt become African again, other locked doors start rattling. That’s the real consequence
One Old Kingdom genome does not settle all of Egyptian history. It does, however, put a very dark face back where generations of polite scholarship
I used to believe the rule of law and the rule of power could be reconciled. I thought that was the whole project of a
There is a magic date on the calendar of every Indiana swimming hole, and it is the day school starts. On that day, every waterfall
I did some math at the coffee shop this week. Bear with me — I promise it starts cozy. Tuesday morning, corner table, the one
Design Notes from the Weedy End of the Lake I did not come to fish through glass. I came to fish through a fishing rod.
The Mine: A Concept for the Ohio Street Vacancy A BMG feasibility note on adaptive reuse, civic draw, and what one empty box on a
My father was a porter. Rode the rails for the Pullman Company, and I’ll tell you something about that job — the whole country set
This week the Office of Government Ethics released the President’s annual financial disclosure. The report for 2025 runs 927 pages. It shows more than 21,000
Remembering England with a House Stand across the street from this house on a bright autumn afternoon and you’re looking at two architectural eras shaking
The Factory You Didn’t Mean to Build There is an orchard where the same families have come north for thirty years to pick apples. The
A Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Robot That Can JumpA Bright Meadow Group concept brief on making Johnstown a robotics destination Johnstown has heard enough