We've seen quite a few scratch built lathes here at Hackaday, but none quite like the handcrafted pole lathe put together by [Jon Townsend] and his band of Merry Men as part of their effort to build a period-accurate 18th century log cabin homestead. With the exception of a few metal spikes here and there, everything is made out of lumber harvested from the forest around them. The lathe is designed to be a permanent structure on the homestead, with two poles driven into the ground to serve as legs. Two rails, made of a split lo…
In just 25 years since its invention, almost four billion people now use the internet, vastly outpacing the speed at which the world adopted any earlier technology. For comparison, 25 years after the first commercial automobile was produced, less than 1 percent of United States citizens had one. It took 140 years from when Michael Faraday invented the first electric generator for electricity to reach half the world. Inventions that at first were luxuries become basic needs as societies and economies build up dependencies around them. During …
Like many other retailers, Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA) closed its physical stores in mid-March. Predictably, the company had a challenging fiscal first quarter (ended May 2). Ulta's same-store sales (comps), which include the closed locations, dropped 35.3%, and the company had a $101.5 million operating loss compared to operating income of $237.5 million i…
A long history of racism has prevented many Black folks from owning land or homes—making it harder to accrue wealth and pass it on to future generations. Underlying the recent unrest sweeping U.S. cities over police brutality is a fundamental inequit…
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In a heartfelt essay penned for Net-A-Porter's 20th anniversary, Yara Shahidi opened up about being born at the turn of the millennium and what it's been like for her to witness and participate in recent global movements towards inclusivity and equality. Quoting American novelist and playwright James Baldwin, Yara writes, "Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition." In the essay, Yara explains that this sense of home is something she and her entire generation have yet to find. "Rather than being…
As our country goes through one of the toughest crises, it is expected that there would be political consensus, not political mudslinging, around our response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Right from upgrading hospital infrastructure, developing emergency beds and ICUs to economic measures. It was interesting to see Abhishek Manu Singhvi, in a recent newspaper article, taking umbrage at PM Modi's 'monumental failure' expression for MGNREGS in 2014. However, the entire discourse, carried on by many opposition leaders, a…
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