Origin of the wonderfully useful 'spoon' unit of energy used by the chronically ill and disabled – including myself. By Christine Miserandino.

The history of Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS). Sometimes the big advances are stupid simple.

Coldicutt describes how strange it is that engineers and technologists (without much knowledge about history, politics, or philosophy) are taken so very seriously when they predict the societal impact of their work, but that vice versa, people without much knowledge of the nuts and bolts of the technology that do have such knowledge are treated as having no authority at all.

A reflection on work and life with an unreliable and unpredictable body. The concept of ‘crip time’ is a great counterpoint to typical approaches to time and planning, clarifying that and how these create inaccessibility for differently abled people.

Erik Tempelman (TU Delft, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering) argues that we should not grade MSc theses but instead simply judge whether students deserves their diploma or not. Some interesting comments, such as Renee Wever's description of the Swedish system.

Lakatos’ life and thought with reference to Popper, Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Laudan.