PULSE OXIMETER NEWS
COVID-19 OXYGENATION ASPECTS have familiarized many people with the pulse oximeter, a little clothespin gizmo that attaches to one’s fingertip to measure pulse and blood oxygen level. An informative summary … Continue reading
GAIA’S EVOLUTIONARY LEAPS PART 2
YESTERDAY WE SHARED tidbits from “Our Cyborg Progeny,” a review of James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence, in London Review of Books, January 7, 2021. Today in Part … Continue reading
GAIA’S EVOLUTIONARY LEAPS PART 1
MEEHAM CRIST’S ARTICLE “Our Cyborg Progeny,” The London Review of Books, January 7, 2021, is thought-provoking, enlightening, and entertaining. Even by LRB standards, at 4634 words it’s a lengthy piece. … Continue reading
ON TECHNICAL RIVALRIES
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN the sciences and engineering is a recent topic at the Members Community of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A fair amount of the discussion … Continue reading
CATCHING COVID-19 AGAIN?
SUPPOSE YOU’VE CAUGHT Covid-19 and recovered. Are you immune from catching it again? Trump claims he’s now immune. Don’t try this at home, kids; he’s the President (as he incessantly … Continue reading
CORVID LORE PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE BEGAN sharing tidbits from a recent Live Q&A Chat, part of the online Members Community of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The subject was corvids, … Continue reading
CORVID LORE PART 1
THAT TITLE WORD is not a typo for “Covid.” However, the following tidbits in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow come from an excellent source frequently discussing the latter: … Continue reading
THE MATHEMATICIAN WORE A LARGE AND FLOPPY HAT PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE FOUND 20-year-old Sonja Kowaleski—she, of the marvelous blue eyes—charming the 55-year-old Professor Karl Weierstrass into accepting her as a student. Her large and floppy hat helped Weierstrass keep … Continue reading
THE MATHEMATICIAN WORE A LARGE AND FLOPPY HAT PART 1
SONJA KOWALESKI’S HAT was intended to keep “her marvelous blue eyes” from distracting Karl Weierstrass, famed 19th-century mathematician, when she approached him as a prospective student. Kowaleski was “twenty, very … Continue reading
TRUST OF SCIENCE WORLDWIDE
THE PEW RESEARCH Center published an extensive study of world perceptions concerning science. Do people trust science? Distrust science? And which people? Educated? Uneducated? Politically to the left? Politically to … Continue reading
