That's my player in the top spot. And would you look at the response time! 0.0 seconds! Man am I awesome. Lol
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Winning at soarin
That's my player in the top spot. And would you look at the response time! 0.0 seconds! Man am I awesome. Lol
Sunday, December 14, 2025
Raya Power makes a solar-battery system you can put in… | Canary Media
Here's a pretty nice approach to adding cellular to your home without having to attach it to the roof. It's more flexible and it would seem adds more flexibility.
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Scientists Generate Power At Night By Passively Beaming Heat into Outer Space. It's "Like Solar Cells in Reverse"
That's pretty cool. Scientists have refined what's known as a Stirling engine - one that captures heat dissipation to generate power - to collect heat that's being released from the earth at night.
They're calling it a sort of reverse solar cell.
Experts warn ongoing concern with Atlantic Ocean will be direct threat to dozens of nations: 'Consequences for at least 1,000 years to come'
There have been several articles about changes to the Atlantic current that will have a direct impact on our climate.
And why is it changing? It's maybe still debatable, but appears to be as a result of the worlds changing climate. Then this will have a follow on effect on our climate.
Canada launches $1.2 billion push to attract talent, as U.S. charges $100,000 fee for H-1B visas - CBS News
You go, Canada! Way to try and build yourself into a competitive world power.
Scientists will be happy to make there way to the great white north and help build something lasting.
A 180-Year Assumption About Light Was Just Proven Wrong : ScienceAlert
I always enjoy reading about how scientific notions, assumptions, and theorems can be challenged and sometimes disproved or updated.
Here's a case where the Faraday effect on light was shown to be affected by magnetic fields. It's a bit to digest, but the basic idea is that light that is polarized can be nudged by a magnet, in addition to electric fields (which was known).
And they sum it up thusly.
Finally, this work is tantalizing because it reminds us of one of the cornerstones of science – namely, that researchers may discover other as-yet unknown properties of light or other electromagnetic phenomena at any time, even in well-established models.
Sunday, December 7, 2025
A fun podcast
I recently listened to a podcast from Radio Lab called "the creation story" ... it was an interesting half hour or thereabouts.
Latif (the host) interviewed Ella al-Shamahi, who is described as a real-life Indiana Jones. She is quite interesting and explores anthropology and history through her work, and several shows she hosts.
But this podcast was about her story, and how she got here. She was born Muslim (in England) and followed all the traditions and beliefs growing up. When she went to school, she decided that she was going to prove Charles Darwin wrong because evolution couldn't be a thing.
And as you might guess, she couldn't. Because evolution is demonstrably true and try as she might to poke holes, the evidence didn't support her point of view.
So....she changed directions and now tries to elucidate and educate others, but not in a confrontational way. I found that most interesting, and wanted to share.
A few things are worth noting: it's okay to question the world around you, but you should keep an open mind. Trust science and look at the body of evidence that's presented to you (rather than something "your crazy uncle" posted). And realize that some people need time to get to a sort of enlightened thinking (and some may never get there), but you can take an approach where you share ideas and try and explain what you know while listening to why they believe in something that may not be reality.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)