DR. ZEYNEP TUFEKCI CLARIFIES A.I.
AS CONFIRMED BY HER APPEARANCES AT THIS WEBSITE (see “Plato, The Internet, Education, and A.I.,” December 17, 2022; “Grok Goes Bonkers,” May 23, 2025; and “Deepfake—And Our Resulting Loss of … Continue reading
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
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
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
