COVID-19 AND THE SEASONS—PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC THOUGHTS
SCIENCE—NOT “FEELINGS” or hunches—should guide our response to the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 20, 2020, Science, the weekly journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published “Sick … Continue reading
ASSESSING OUR LADY
THE GOAL OF RESTORING Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral by 2024 has encouraged scientific analyses of this historical building. Science, March 13, 2020, devoted a major article to these endeavors. Here … Continue reading
MOUSER DESCENDANTS MAKE GOOD IN MADAGASCAR
THE ISLAND OF Madagascar in the Indian Ocean has no indigenous cat populations. But it does have an elusive feline twice the size of a house cat. Researchers say this … Continue reading
ON EQUALITY, MATHWISE AND OTHERWISE PART 1
“THE SQUARE OF the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.” Apart from giving us the pun about squaws sleeping on various hides, … Continue reading
SEEKING ANONYMITY IN A CROWD PART 2
JOHN SEABROOK’s MOST informative “Dressing for the Surveillance Age” in yesterday’s SimanaitisSays got us into the latest of deep-learning facial recognition. Today in Part 2, we learn about our cars’ … Continue reading
SEEKING ANONYMITY IN A CROWD PART 1
IT’S LIKE LIVING IN a small town, where everyone knows everything about everyone else. Or, at least, they think they do. Modern surveillance technology recognizes the face in the crowd. … Continue reading
I’VE GOT A SONG IN MY HEAD—BUT WHERE?
DIFFERENT REGIONS OF the human brain are occupied with different processes. Its right hemisphere controls the left side of the body, and is the more artistic and creative hemisphere; the … Continue reading
THE SILVER LINING OF A GREEN CLOUD
DESPITE EARLY FEARS, it turns out computer technology’s electrical surge is not going to dim the world’s lights. Science magazine, February 28, 2020, publishes details of “Recalibrating Global Data Center … Continue reading
FROM WASTE TO WONDER MATERIAL
SHEETS OF GRAPHENE, a super-strength material, can be zapped from just about any carbon-containing waste. All that’s required is electricity generating immense heat. Here are tidbits on the material, the … Continue reading
SLEEP LIKE A….
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN “sleeping like a log” since the 16th century, or at least they’ve been using this phase to describe it. We and other animals tend to combine sleep … Continue reading
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