ON TRILLIONS
SUPPOSE AN OFFICIAL Counter had been commissioned at the birth of Christ to begin numbering the seconds (assuming, for the moment, a start at 1 A.D., not the 4 B.C. … Continue reading
BIG EV BENEFITS FROM NANOTECH
A HEADLINE CAUGHT my eye: “Aiming for the 5-minute EV Recharge,” in SAE Automotive Engineering, April 2021. The Technology Report by Stuart Birch describes nanotech advances from NAWA Technologies, headquartered … Continue reading
OLD COPPER FLOURISHED IN GREAT LAKES REGION
NO, I’M NOT making a political comment about policing in the U.S. Upper Midwest. Rather, I’m citing “Great Lakes People Among First Coppersmiths,” as reported by David Malakoff in Science … Continue reading
ON OTHERWORDLY EVOLUTION
Do Darwin’s evolutionary theories describe life elsewhere in the universe? Are we already surpassing Darwin’s model here at home? These heady thoughts are prompted by gleanings from The London … Continue reading
EARTHQUAKES—“CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?”
WHAT WITH the Earth’s surface being three-quarters water, oceanic research is essential to understanding our world. However, such monitoring is especially difficult to deploy and maintain. Science magazine, published weekly … Continue reading
PLANCK CORES—A NEW COSMOLOGICAL MODEL
SCIENTISTS ARE MODELERS. They devise mathematical models to explain what they perceive as reality. Pre-Copernicus, with human-centric and religious fervor, their model located Earth at their reality’s center. Newton refined … Continue reading
MATHEMATICS AND Moby-Dick
I’VE MET SEVERAL world-famous mathematicians, including Lotfi Zadeh, 1921–2017, the discoverer of fuzzy logic. And my life has also been enriched by learning from those I’ve not had opportunity to … Continue reading
ON INDUSTRY 4.0
THE MARCH 2021 Shift, published as a supplement to Automotive News, has a most interesting editorial by Leslie J. Allen, Shift Editor. She writes, “I’m not much for buzzwords,” but … Continue reading
AAAS MEMBER COMMUNITY FORUM GLEANING
AFTER ALMOST TWO years of lively—not to say occasionally raucous—exchange, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has modified the Terms and Conditions of its Community Forum. Some members … Continue reading
FINNED SEISMOLOGISTS AID IN OCEANIC RESEARCH
THE FIN WHALE, Balaenotera physalus, grows to about 80 ft. in length, weighs up to 80 tons, lives more than 80 years, and chats with others of its species in … Continue reading
