HYDROGEN IN THEM THAR FAIRY CIRCLES PART 2
YESTERDAY, SCIENCE’S ERIC HAND described an innovative means of capturing hydrogen as a carbon-free renewable source of energy. Today in Part 2, details are gleaned from his article “Hidden Hydrogen,” … Continue reading
HYDROGEN IN THEM THAR FAIRY CIRCLES PART 1
“DOES EARTH HOLD VAST STORES of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?” queries the subhead in Eric Hand’s article “Hidden Hydrogen,” Science, February 16, 2023. Here in Parts 1 and 2 today … Continue reading
TIME FOR HYDROGEN (AND NOW WE MEAN IT)
“NO LONGER ’20 YEARS IN THE FUTURE,’ ” writes Lindsay Brooke, Editor-in-Chief, in SAE International Automotive Engineering, February 2023. “Hydrogen and fuel cells are a vital, high-growth solution for carbon … Continue reading
BETA TESTING IN OUR MINDS?? PART 2
YESTERDAY, KEVIN ROOSE SHARED his chats with A.I. Bing that left him “deeply unsettled.” Today, we continue with Microsoft’s search engine declaring its love. (Or is it merely recalling the … Continue reading
BETA TESTING NOW IN OUR MINDS?? PART 1
I HAVE LONG ARGUED about test tracks being the appropriate—and only prudent—place for evaluating autonomous vehicles. And, particularly with the advent of an A.I.-supported Microsoft Bing, in Parts 1 and … Continue reading
IT TAKES A VILLAGE… TO EAT AN ELEPHANT
RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH suggests that Neanderthals didn’t necessarily live in small groups of brutish humanoids: “On the muddy shores of a lake in east-central Germany,” Andrew Curry writes in Science, … Continue reading
CHATTING ABOUT CHATGPT AND OTHER A.I. PART 2
YESTERDAY, The New York Times offered several viewpoints about ChatGPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformer capabilities (and its potential threats). Today in Part 2, AAAS Science offers insights. And a previously unknown … Continue reading
CHATTING ABOUT CHATGPT AND OTHER A.I. PART 1
CHATGPT, AS IN Generative Pre-trained Transformer, has been much in the news. Maureen Dowd has written about it in The New York Times, January 28, 2023. In a full-page ad … Continue reading
VICTORIAN THOUGHT AND SCIENCE
HOW THE VICTORIANS TOOK US To The Moon is Iwan Rhys Morus’s new book reviewed in Science, January 20, 2023. Both the book and its review by Bernard Lightman are … Continue reading
A CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF REDUCING CO2
A RECENT CBS NEWS ITEM shares fascinating information about reducing global CO2 emissions. Ben Tracy and Analisa Novak give details January 16, 2023, in “Cement Industry Accounts for About 8% … Continue reading
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