GIVING A.I. WISDOM AND MATURITY
A.I. PIONEER DE KAI recognizes that Artificial Intelligence is still in its infancy requiring careful and thoughtful rearing. Raising A.I.: An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future, by De Kai, … Continue reading
F1 FUELS 1989–1991: HOW GREEN THEY WEREN’T PART 2
PART 1 BEGAN OUR CRIBBING OF YOUR AUTHOR’S PRESENTATION at the 2008 SAE Motorsports Conference. We pick up here in Part 2 with another hydrocarbon not included in F1 Rocket … Continue reading
F1 FUELS 1989–1991: HOW GREEN THEY WEREN’T PART 1
FORMULA 1 FUELS WILL BE GREENER FOR 2026, with 100-percent sustainability based on the fuels already powering FIA Formula 2 and Formula 3 Championships. For more details, see Lawrence Barretto’s … Continue reading
LET’S CELEBRATE THE FROGS OF CALAVERAS—AND A.I.
REGULAR READERS, BLESS ’EM, ARE FAMILIAR with my rantings about Artificial Intelligence, its immense energy gobbling, its vast data scrapings, and its hallucinations. Today let’s celebrate another aspect of this complex … Continue reading
CABLING ELECTRICITY UNDERSEA
“ELECTRIC POWER IS NO LONGER THE HUMDRUM INDUSTRY IT USED TO BE,” writes Stanley Reed in “How The Deep Sea Cables That Power The World Are Made,” The New York … Continue reading
LEIBNITZ’S BOWLING PINS AND INFINITY
STEVEN STROGATZ WRITES ABOUT “BOWLING FOR NOBELS,” The New York Times, June 30, 2025. One of his topics: triangular numbers as exemplified by objects arranged in perfect equilateral triangles. Familiar … Continue reading
NATURE’S DYNAMIC COLORATION, TRANPARENCY, AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT
MATTHEW D. SHAWKEY OFFERS A PROVOCATIVE TITLE “Now You See Me, Now You Don’t,” in AAAS Science magazine, June 26, 2025: “Some squids,” Shawkey recounts, “are masters of disguise. They … Continue reading
ON ATTRIBUTING SOURCES
THESE DAYS THE PHRASE “WITHOUT EVIDENCE” is tacked on pronouncements galore. By contrast, legitimate science has held fast to the concept of attributing sources. And, to some extent, the judiciary … Continue reading
COUNTERING MICROPLASTICS
STUTI MISHRA REPORTS “NEW PLASTIC THAT DISSOLVES in Seawater Raises Hopes for Tackling Ocean Pollution,” The Independent, June 4, 2025. She recounts, “The material, created by researchers at the University … Continue reading
THE MATH BRAIN AND A.I.—NOT EXACTLY FRIENDS
PARADOXICALLY ENOUGH, AFTER MY READING Dr. Leif Weatherby’s Guest Essay “A.I. Killed the Math Brain,” in The New York Times, June 2, 2025, what came to mind was ventriloquist Edgar … Continue reading
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