SHARING DATA GRAPHICALLY
WE’RE SEEING a Golden Age in the sharing of data through pictures. Here are tidbits of this, gleaned from here and there with my usual Internet sleuthing. Thank René. In … Continue reading
NANOSTORAGE: A KEY TO EFFICIENT ELECTRIFICATION
IT SOUNDS OXYMORONIC: using the incredibly tiny world of nanomaterials to optimize storage of anything. But look a little deeper: On the nano scale, the right materials have gobs of … Continue reading
WITH A SONG IN OUR HEARTS (ALL OF US)
PEOPLE SING. ALL people, with surprisingly fewer differences between cultures than within any one culture. Science, November 22, 2019, describes this in “The World in a Song,” by W. Tecumseh … Continue reading
IN DEFENSE OF ALGORITHMS
IT ISN’T MY mathematical background that has me defending algorithms. Nor is it scads of angry algorithms responding to the last two days of SimanaitisSays, in which I shared Annalee … Continue reading
A MORE EFFICIENT CATALYST FOR FUEL CELLS
FUEL CELLS HAVE long exhibited potential for efficient generation of electricity from oxygen in the air and stored hydrogen. FCEVs Versus BEVS. One benefit, already achieved, is in fuel-cell electric … Continue reading
ON DEADLY ACCESSIBLE TECHNOLOGY
MAYBE CONTRITION prompted Alfred Nobel to devise the Peace Prize. He made a fortune from his 1867 patent for dynamite. Nobel’s Blasting Powder was marketed as a safer alternative to … Continue reading
HOW COME WHALES ARE SO BIG?
“BLUE WHALE HEARTS May Beat Only Twice a Minute During a Dive,” wrote Cara Giaimo in The New York Times, November 27, 2019. Equally interesting was this article’s reference to … Continue reading
SYSTEMATOLOGY (WITH SOME DIALECTIC MATERIALISM TOSSED IN) PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE LEARNED Chinese mathematician Hsue-Shen Tsien’s characterization of systematology, an interdisciplinary approach to studying open, complex, giant systems. Today in Part 2, we’ll continue examining this innovative philosophy of … Continue reading
SYSTEMATOLOGY (WITH SOME DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM TOSSED IN) PART 1
A GLOSSY 56-PAGE supplement to a weekly Science magazine offers information on systematology, an innovative approach to interdisciplinary studies. Coming as it does from the People’s Republic of China, it … Continue reading
A TREASURE OF GREENLAND DIRT
BACK IN THE 1960s, the U.S. military Camp Century in Greenland was publicized as a scientific research base. Actually, though, Camp Century, about 150 miles east of Thule Air Base, … Continue reading
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