SCIENCE HAPPENS PART 2
YESTERDAY WE DISCUSSED SCIENCE as it navigates itself through the pages of AAAS Science magazine; this, despite a Trump administration seemingly bent on eschewing science at every opportunity. Today in … Continue reading
GEDANKENEXPERIMENTE TO EN ZED
HERE’S A WONDERFUL “THOUGHT EXPERIMENT,” albeit utterly impossible in the real world: tunneling through the center of Earth to the other side. BBC Sounds offers “What Would Happen If We … Continue reading
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICROSOFT!
THE VERGE CELEBRATES MICROSOFT’S 50TH BIRTHDAY with “The 50 Best Things Microsoft Has Ever Made,” March 31, 2025. The Verge staff writes, “The company has gone through sweeping changes over … Continue reading
QWERTY, DVORAK, KALQ, OR? PART 2
YESTERDAY, THIS ALL STARTED WITH a Smithsonian Magazine article on QWERTY. Today, we continue gleaning tidbits from Ellen Wexler’s article. A Non-Jamming Theory. Ellen Wexler recounts, “In a 2011 paper, … Continue reading
QWERTY, DVORAK, KALQ, OR? PART 1
SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE RECENTLY POSITED, “The QWERTY Keyboard Will Never Die. Where Did the 150-Year-Old Design Come From?” In February 25, 2025, Ellen Wexler updated a Smithsonian article by Jimmy Stamp … Continue reading
“IT AIN’T WHA’CHA SAYS, IT’S HOW YOU SAYS IT”
“THAT CROONER,” THE FEMALE HUMPBACK CONFESSES, “melts my heart.” “The complexity of humpback whale songs is suspected to attract females for mating.” Image by D. Parer and E. Parer-Cook in … Continue reading
REUSE, DON’T DIG UP
A STANFORD UNIVERSITY REPORT SAYS “Recycling Lithium-ion Batteries Delivers Significant Environment Benefits” compared with mining and processing new materials. “On a large scale,” Stanford researchers write, “recycling could also help … Continue reading
A FAULTY MODEL FOR CLEAN ENERGY?
CONVENTIONAL THINKING HAS ENERGY EMPLOYMENT being a series of transitions shaping modern history. Quoting Adam Tooze’s “Trouble Transitioning,” London Review of Books, January 23, 2025: “The first was from organic … Continue reading
ON A.I. COMMENTARIES, ELEPHANT HIJINKS, AND TRUMP CLIMATE IGNORANCE PART 2
YESTERDAY’S SCIENCE TIDBITS REVEALED A.I. SKULLDUGGERY within academic journal commentaries. Today’s continue with elephants and weather forecasting. Talk about variety. Behaviors Reveal Sophisticated Tool Use—and Possible “Pranking” Among Pachyderms. Elephants … Continue reading
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ON A.I. COMMENTARIES, ELEPHANT HIJINKS, AND TRUMP CLIMATE IGNORANCE PART 1
THERE ARE TIDBITS A’PLENTY in scientific matters, as reported in Science, publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Here in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow … Continue reading →