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Category Archives: Sci-Tech

MEDICAL RESEARCH UNDER ATTACK PART 2

IN PART 1, RNA SPECIALIST DR. JEFF COLLER WARNED OF FEDERAL CUTBACKS in medical research in his Guest Essay in The New York Times. Today in Part 2, he cites … Continue reading

June 27, 2026 · 1 Comment

MEDICAL RESEARCH UNDER ATTACK PART 1

WITH ADDLED GUIDANCE FROM THE LIKES OF RFK JR. AND TRUMP, it’s no surprise that medical research is under attack. How many measles deaths must we experience? What about our … Continue reading

June 26, 2026 · 1 Comment

THE PLANTS’ REVENGE PART 2

YESTERDAY WE BEGAN DISCUSSING THE VENUS FLYTRAP’S REVENGE on the animal world, as described by Science’s Jacques Dumais’ description of how this plant accomplishes its capture. Today in Part 2, … Continue reading

June 24, 2026 · Leave a comment

THE PLANTS’ REVENGE PART 1

JACQUES DUMAIS OBSERVES, “PLANTS AND ANIMALS INTERACT in countless ways, but in most cases the plant appears to be a passive participant in the interaction….” Here, though Dionaea muscipula, the … Continue reading

June 23, 2026 · Leave a comment

A “SIMPLE” SEAL FOR A FORMULA ONE LSD

THANKS TO SAE INTERNATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING, June 2026, we get a glimpse into what might be considered a “simple” seal for hydraulic actuation of the McLaren Formula One car’s limited-slip … Continue reading

June 22, 2026 · Leave a comment

MATHEMATICS, A.I., AND THE LEIDEN DECLARATION PART 2

YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE FOCUSED ON OpenAI’s achievement in disproving a previous conjecture in combinatorial geometry. Today, we continue Siobhan Roberts’ analysis of the Leiden Declaration, a response by … Continue reading

June 13, 2026 · Leave a comment

MATHEMATICS, A.I., AND THE LEIDEN DECLARATION PART 1

MATHEMATICIANS RECENTLY ZOOMED with Siobhan Roberts who writes “As A.I. Makes Strides in Mathematics, Mathematicians Urge Caution,” The New York Times, June 2, 2026. She sets the stage by recounting, … Continue reading

June 12, 2026 · Leave a comment

PIGEON NAV PART 2

YESTERDAY, WE BEGAN LEARNING ABOUT PIGEON NAVIGATION, thanks to writers and researchers published in AAAS Science, May 28, 2026. Today, the researchers offer details of their methodology.   Pigeon Liver … Continue reading

June 9, 2026 · Leave a comment

PIGEON NAV PART 1

HOW DO PIGEONS PERFORM THEIR HOMING? “Getting Home in the Dark,” by Simon Spiro and Hal Drakesmith, Science, May 28, 2026, gives key points of the research report “Homing Pigeons … Continue reading

June 8, 2026 · 4 Comments

HI, CLAUDE; HELLO, MYTHOS PART 2

YESTERDAY WE BEGAN GLEANING TIDBITS from Professor Paul Taylor’s LRB Diary “Ask Claude.” Today in Part 2, he continues with our introduction to Mythos and Anthropic’s novel idea of A.I. … Continue reading

June 5, 2026 · Leave a comment