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Millen Paschich

~Superluminal temperature response curves

What impact is outside air temperature having inside your building? Turn a year’s worth of data–34,944 data points–into a data visualization for insights on your building’s temperature response behavior.

Taxing for deferred maintenance

It cost $258 million, in today’s dollars, to build the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1870s. Today, New York City’s mayor is proposing an $800 million annual tax increase on his city’s wealthiest to pay for the billion dollar backlog in deferred maintenance.

Color-coding complex maintenance

Talking with Dr. Layne Karafantis of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum about human factors engineering initiatives in the maintenance of complex aerospace systems.

How we try maintaining nature

A chat with Prof. Jon Christensen–of UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital Humanities–on what the data from $5.4 billion and 2,174 projects tells us about the progress and pitfalls of modern conservation.

The dark side of innovation, seen from Bell Labs, Mars, and...

A conversation with Andy Russell, Dean and Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, on society’s focus on innovation, which keeps us from thinking about and crediting the maintainers who keep everything working.