Not long after Radiohead's 1997 masterpiece Ok Computer came out, I sat in the small upstairs office of my house and sang aloud to the album's least tuneful song, "Fitter Happier," a track in which ...

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We’ve chosen this project as one of the great engineering milestones of the recent past. Tell us which engineering project you think will have the biggest impact on human life in the next 30 years and ...