Recreational Engineering

On a stormy night in 1999, a MnDOT employee has pointed a traffic camera at a huge round grate in the median of Interstate 35W.  Occasional ...

Many people ride singlespeed bikes for commuting and day-to-day riding because there are fewer things to go wrong than with a derailleur dri...

The cathedral in St. Paul, Minnesota is in the early stages of a major organ renovation project.  James Biery, the music director at the cat...

The duplex I live in is heated by a hot water boiler system. It's the first place I've lived since childhood with a boiler, and I w...

Pretty much every bicycle tinkerer out there should be vaguely familiar with the Nuvinci. While it may look like just another internally-ge...

So what exactly is recreational engineering? Search the web for the term, and you'll find things like roller coaster inspectors, whitewa...