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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
HI, CLAUDE; HELLO, MYTHOS PART 1
HELLO AGAIN TO PROFESSOR PAUL TAYLOR, Health Informatics specialist at University College London. He has helped us here at SimanaitisSays in Covid days with “A Glimpse at SIR Modeling,” (as … Continue reading
POPE LEO XIV AND A.I.
HAVE YOU READ POPE LEO’S MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS? Or, instead of this exercise in Latin, its English Magnificent Humanity, all 42,300 words of it? No? Me neither. Some might be tempted … Continue reading
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