AVOIDING “LOCK-IN” SUBSIDIES PART 1
AAAS SCIENCE OFFERS A POLICY FORUM IN ECONOMICS, its title “A Cautious Approach to Subsidies for Environmental Sustainability,” October 3, 2024. This extensive discussion was assembled by Kathleen Segerson et … Continue reading
HUMMINGBIRDS—LIVING ON THE EDGE
HUMMINGBIRDS OCCASIONALLY SAMPLE MY FRONT-YARD PLANTINGS, much to my amazement of their aerial capabilities. Indeed, this ain’t the half of it as I learned from Bob Holmes in “Hummingbirds Thrive … Continue reading
EXTRACTING LITHIUM MORE EFFICIENTLY PART 2
Yesterday, we learned about challenges of lithium sourcing and recent research in its technology. Today in Part 2, there’s an unanswered question and a novel electrochemical approach. An Unanswered Question. … Continue reading
EXTRACTING LITHIUM MORE EFFICIENTLY PART 1
SETH B. DARLING WRITES IN “The Brine of the Times,” AAAS Science, September 26, 2024, that “Tremendous attention focuses on lithium, which is primarily sourced from either hard rock called … Continue reading
POURING A CAT
ANY CAT LOVER KNOWS A FELINE’S AFFINITY for fitting itself into enclosures of any shape—and seemingly any size. AAAS Science addresses this in a scholarly manner in “How a Cat … Continue reading
NANO-SHOCKING NEWS!
ANDREW PAUL WRITES IN POPULAR SCIENCE, September 18, 2024, “After 2600 Years, We Finally Know How Static Electricity Really Works.” Well isn’t it about time? No, it’s about nano particles. … Continue reading
A.I. CAN REDUCE CONSPIRACY BELIEFS
“EVEN THE DEEPEST OF RABBIT HOLES may have an exit” says a news release, September 12, 2024 from American University. Indeed, appearing the same day AAAS Science’s Editor-in-Chief H. Holden … Continue reading
WITH A SONG IN MY HEAD
MAYBE IT’S A BYPRODUCT of whacko Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s brain worm, but Melinda Wenner Moyer writes in The New York Times, September 10, 2024, “Why Can’t I Get This … Continue reading
THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 2
YESTERDAY’S PART 1 OFFERED the theory of interplanting corn, beans, and squash for mutual benefit of these vegetables, not to say their cultivators as well. Today we have Sylvia Klyz’s … Continue reading
THREE SISTERS VS THE PESTS—THEORY AND PRACTICE PART 1
THIS SOUNDS LIKE ONE OF THOSE “Grrls Get Even” flicks, but in fact it’s about the science of interplanting corn, beans, and squash—the Three Sisters—with mutual benefits for all three … Continue reading
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