ECLECTIC ELECTRICS—17 YEARS AGO PART 2
I RECENCTLY UNEARTHED THIS BEVY OF BEVS (battery electric vehicles) from March 2009 R&T. Here in Part 2, we continue with these Eclectic Electrics, including one that’s the second-quickest car … Continue reading
ECLECTIC ELECTRICS—17 YEARS AGO PART 1
IT WAS EARLY 2009 THAT R&T GOT SERIOUS ABOUT BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES, BEVs, for short. (And no pun intended). In February 2009, we tested the Tesla Roadster, a rolling-chassis Lotus … Continue reading
WE USTA HEAR AMERICA PINGING
“TO UNDERSTAND THIS (HISTORICAL) ABNORMALITY OF COMBUSTION,” I wrote (sans the parenthetical modifier) in R&T back in December 1979, “we’d be wise to begin by examining the combustion process as … Continue reading
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE CRETACEOUS SEA PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LEARNED FROM AAAS SCIENCE THAT THE CRETACEOUS SEA contained cephalopods of unprecedented size. Sources for this are Phie Jacobs’ “Octopus ‘Krakens’ as Large as Semi-Trucks Stalked Ancient Seas,” … Continue reading
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE CRETACEOUS SEA…. PART 1
AAAS SCIENCE TELLS US ABOUT NANIOUTEUTHUS haggarti: “the largest invertebrate ever described,” an octopus that makes even the sea-monster krakens of legend seem playful. What’s more, the 23 April 2026 … Continue reading
PUMPING URANIUM?
QUENTIN SEPTER EXPRESSES “DEEP UNEASE” in AAAS Science, April 23, 2026: “A push to expand mines that use fluids to extract uranium from aquifers is raising concerns about groundwater pollution.” … Continue reading
FROM MOTHER EARTH TO YOUR CAR’S TANK; SLEUTHING ADDED PART 2
MOLLY BOIGON GOT US OFF TO A GOOD START with her “Fluctuating Fuel Costs: How Refiners, Retailers and Regulators Set the Price at the Pump.” We continue today in Part … Continue reading
FROM MOTHER EARTH TO YOUR CAR’S TANK; SLEUTHING ADDED PART 1
IT’S QUITE THE COMPLEX TRIP from Mother Earth’s petroleum resources to the fuel tank of your car, the diesel truck delivering your goods, or the airliner transporting you one place … Continue reading
EDUCATING US ALL ABOUT A.I. PART 2
IN PART 1, CHANCELLOR MARIE LYNN MIRANDA’S Science Editorial promoted educating us all about optimizing our use of A.I. Today in Part 2, we offer examples of why this is … Continue reading
EDUCATING US ALL ABOUT A.I. PART 1
“THE GREATEST RISK is not that A.I. will eliminate jobs, but that its benefits will accrue unevenly.” This, writes Marie Lynn Miranda, Chancellor of the University of Illinois, Chicago, in … Continue reading
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