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
HAS TRUMP READ BUDISH? OR ANYTHING BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA?
TRUMP IS A (SELF-ACKNOWLEDGED) “VERY STABLE GENIUS.” Quite apart from other “weaves” about Greenland and the Panama Canal, he has also talked of creating a bitcoin strategic reserve. How very … Continue reading
WHO OR WHAT IS GENIUS? PART 2
YESTERDAY’S TIDBITS BEGAN ANALYSES of Christopher Beha’s “A.I. Isn’t Genius. We Are.” Today in Part 2 we pick up Western philosophy in our early first millennium. The Christian Era’s Unity … Continue reading
WHO OR WHAT IS GENIUS? PART 1
CHRISTOPHER BEHA OFFERS A GUEST ESSAY in “A.I. Isn’t Genius. We Are,” The New York Times, December 26, 2024. Here, in Parts 1 and 2 today and tomorrow, are tidbits … Continue reading
A.I.—ITS CREATIVITY, ITS ABDUCTIVE REASONING, AND ITS GRANNY DAISY
PETER COY’S “HOW DOES A.I. THINK? HERE’S ONE THEORY,” The New York Times, December 16, 2024, is replete with tidbits to be gleaned. And, in another note entirely, a grandmotherly … Continue reading
TRUMP AND SCIENCE/TECH PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE EXAMINED AN ARTICLE IN SCIENCE addressing funding cuts and policy shifts likely with a second Trump administration. This continues today in Part 2. “Go Wild” on Health, Medicines, … Continue reading
TRUMP AND SCIENCE/TECH PART 1
PERHAPS YOU’VE NOTICED, SCI-TECH IS ONE OF THE eight categories of SimanaitisSays. The others: Classic (largely focused on old R&Ts), Trippin’ (my Baedekers and personal travel), Editor (language and word … Continue reading
PUTTING SCIENCE IN PERSPECTIVE
MARCIA MCNUTT IS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. Academy of Sciences (and, from 2013 to 2016, editor-in-chief of AAAS Science journals including this magazine). McNutt writes an Editorial in Science, November … 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 →