Sunday, April 06, 2025

Monitors and resonances

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While we tried to get the monitors adjusted this morning, I wondered how old the tool is: pretty recent , as this interesting story shows. ...
Saturday, April 05, 2025

Shattered Sword

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The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by John Parshall and Anthony Tully: A lot of Japanese sources are now available in translation, and...
Friday, April 04, 2025

Bookstores

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From From Anecdotal Evidence : an essay on booksellers from 1963 My own relations with bookshops began more than forty years ago and they ...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

AI and copyright

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"Human authorship and creativity remain essential in the quest to obtain copyright protection" The famous work "Notes toward...

Dripping

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The headline at SciTech is evocative: Scientists Discover That North America Is “Dripping” Down Into Earth’s Mantle . Although the dripping ...

Signal reaction

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The first thing that came to my mind was an alleged Bismarck anecdote, though I haven't found a source. Bismarck was commenting on the p...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Politics and religion in other climes

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I was chasing down a familiar name (my mother had worked with the man) in the news, and a rabbit trail brought me to an interesting election...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Raised beds

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I built short raised beds of wood shortly after we moved here, and though the wood is largely gone the piles of soil aren't that tough t...
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Friday, March 21, 2025

Real Education

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I hadn't heard of Real Education by Charles Murray, published in 2008. He divides the book according to four claims Ability Varies Hal...
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Cutting board data point

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We've a small plastic cutting board that sees a lot of use because of its convenience. I had a look at it yesterday, and then had a fe...
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Plastic dust

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Researchers studied Plastic particles in bottled water , using Stimulated Raman Scattering: The researchers found that, on average, a liter ...
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Monday, March 17, 2025

Influencers

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Encouraging people to do stupid things isn't new with TikTok/YouTube/etc. Back when the Stegosaurus flailed his tail and I was an under...
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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Memories don't work the same

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We went to an exhibit on Egypt almost exactly 21 years ago. The subject of the Book of the Dead came up, and as a result also the exhibit....

Progression

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"we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven ...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Monotheism

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It's popular to say that Moses learned from Akhenaten (one of his poems resembles a psalm), and I've heard the reverse--that Akhenat...
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Thursday, March 13, 2025

Phytoremediation

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A study using plants to pull lead from slag-contaminated soil in Atlanta found that in their pots, 10% of the lead could wind up in the pla...