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Jeffrey Winters
@jeffreywinters.bsky.social
Essayist.

Former science/technology journalist, including as editor in chief, Mechanical Engineering magazine.

Don’t blame anyone for these posts but me.
Because kids have to see it to believe it:
November 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
It’s been done!
November 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Presently reading an excellent book that mentions this.
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Incredibly proud of my old crew at @asmedotorg.bsky.social @mengineeringmag.bsky.social for nabbing two Eddies last night. Best little magazine no one’s ever heard of. Onward and upward.
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
September 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Distressed reporters? Thinking we’re all distressed at this point.
September 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
August 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Used to be a science fiction trope.
May 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Odds are, he wants to bone Morena Baccarin
May 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
At that price point, I feel like you’d only see extraordinary weirdos.
April 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Another way to think about it is manufacturing construction as a percentage of total construction, which shows that the Biden program focused resources on factory building rather than it being a result of an otherwise rising tide.

fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgr...
March 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Of course, these days you can get them up front from STScI.
January 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
To think that at one time, receiving and redirecting mail that arrived via pneumatic tube was a full-time job.
January 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I mean, who would want to be called this?
January 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
3x is a little much — masks the flavor more than I’d like — but 2x is wonderful. It’s my choice for Friday ramen night.
December 3, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Per @hushkit.bsky.social (well, their other feed): NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter carried a small swatch of muslin material from the lower-left wing of the Wright Brothers Flyer 1.
November 12, 2024 at 5:56 PM
FDNY [via the other place] photo from Prospect Park in Brooklyn (and less than a mile from my home), as drought conditions have allowed a brush fire to take hold.
November 9, 2024 at 1:57 AM
For no particularly good reason, I remembered this passage from a PBS Nova episode from 2001.

Not even thinking about bio-attacks. Just that novel viruses and bacteria can produce weird immunological effects. And that the society-wide surrender on public health could be really, really unwise.
March 22, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Energy expert Michael E. Webber gives his firsthand impressions of COP28. He says getting wealthy petrostates (like the UAE and U.S.) onboard with climate action is the only way to reach emissions goals.

www.asme.org/topics-resou...
December 15, 2023 at 2:56 AM