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Faine Greenwood

Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 2

Souvenir magnets are our memories, transformed into the form of a dumb resin crocodile that we can put in our kitchen.

15 min readOct 15, 2021

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Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 2

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Faine Greenwood

Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 1

Fridge magnets are more than tacky souvenirs. They’re vessels for our memories.

16 min readOct 7, 2021

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Fridge Magnets and Memory: Part 1

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Faine Greenwood

The Ancient History of Drones Explains Why They Freak Us Out Today

Ancient history and myth has a lot to teach us about why drones are so fascinating to the people of today.

12 min readAug 4, 2021

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The Ancient History of Drones Explains Why They Freak Us Out Today

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Drones and Trust, Air Conditioning History, and Evangelion Crawdads

I wrote something for the ICRC about drones, public trust, and why we can’t brute-force the public into being universally OK with the…

8 min readJul 23, 2021

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Drones and Trust, Air Conditioning History, and Evangelion Crawdads

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Faine Greenwood

Why the Northeast Sucks at Air Conditioning (And Other Cool Facts)

Using data to explain why some parts of the US are less cool than others.

7 min readJul 15, 2021

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Why the Northeast Sucks at Air Conditioning (And Other Cool Facts)

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Faine Greenwood

How the Smartphone Loosed Applebee’s Dread Grip Over the American Road Trip

I am a technology skeptic. Sometimes I think we really would have been better off if we had forgotten all about leaving the ocean, and had…

9 min readJul 9, 2021

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How the Smartphone Loosed Applebee’s Dread Grip Over the American Road Trip

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The Ring Always Home Drone: A Ridiculous Way for Amazon to Map Your House

There are better ways to spy on your family members

7 min readSep 26, 2020

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Facebook Is Putting Us All on the Map

Whether we like it or not

8 min readJul 29, 2019

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Facebook Is Putting Us All on the Map

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Faine Greenwood

Why People Are Afraid of Drones, Part One: Drones are Inscrutable

What are drones thinking?

10 min readMay 30, 2019

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Faine Greenwood

The Ascent of Drones

Civilian drones aren’t direct descendants of military drones, and that’s a distinction that matters when we talk drone ethics.

11 min readMay 22, 2019

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The Ascent of Drones

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Faine Greenwood

Faine Greenwood

researches drone technology in humanitarian aid, writes about tech, drones, mapping, aid, and politics, draws weird pictures sometimes

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