Archive - Pith

The Enemies Who Wrote the Rules of Motion — Together

Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton could scarcely stand each other. Three centuries later, their two equations meet in every engineering classroom on earth …

Aug 2 • Pith

June 2026

Coming Soon: The Giants Behind the Equations

The stories of the people whose ideas built modern engineering.

Jun 30 • Pith

May 2026

The AI Question Universities Can't Postpone

Nearly every student uses it. Almost no campus has decided what that means. Behind the policy debate is a harder question about what college is actually…

May 31 • Pith

A Quiet Referendum on the American University

Community college enrollment is surging while four-year schools lose ground. Behind the numbers, a generation is rewriting the promise that once defined…

May 22 • Pith

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