Stories from the Tall Tales Club – Episode 1 The Time Elephant
I’ve had a lot of fun in this new ensemble audio storytelling series. Did I do a good job convincing my friends I really saw a time-traveling elephant?
Out for a walk and saw this. I hope you are having a nice day.
Out for a walk and saw this. I hope you are having a nice day.
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend.
Chilling on Forbes Avenue with a small friend.
NASA reconnects with Voyager 1 (after months of confusion)
NASA says it is once again able to get meaningful information back from the Voyager 1 probe, after months of troubleshooting a glitch that had this venerable spacecraft sending home messages that made no sense. The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes launched in 1977 on a mission to study Jupiter and Saturn but…
“Save the date for the 2024 eclipse,” the young teacher told his students back in 1978. Decades later…
NASA Communicates with Ailing Voyager 1 Spacecraft
I remember staying up well past my bedtime in the late 70s and early 80s, watching the local PBS station where experts sat around a table, poring through freshly-printed glossy photos of mountain ranges, rings, and craters. I remember them holding up one photo and discussing whether they were looking at the disk of a…
More Adventures in Suburban Adulting
About four years ago I bought an electric mower that was quiet enough that I could listen to audiobooks while doing my suburban adulting duties. The battery held enough charge that I could get about 1/2 of my lawn done at a time so that summer I bought another battery. A couple years later I…
Parrots learn to make video calls to chat with other parrots, then develop friendships, Northeastern University researchers say
A new study from researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with scientists from MIT and the University of Glasgow, investigated what happened when a group of domesticated birds were taught to call one another on tablets and smartphones. The results suggest that video calls could help parrots approximate birds’ communication in the wild, improving their…
Out for an April stroll.
Thank you, frog and friends, for reminding us all what the Internet is supposed to be for.
this frog and their band pic.twitter.com/bVo6xuakuv — non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) March 26, 2023
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
This was probably the wealthiest, most powerful group I had ever encountered. Yet here they were, asking a Marxist media theorist for advice on where and how to configure their doomsday bunkers. That’s when it hit me: at least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their…
Fun with Geometry — Biological and Theoretical
For some reason today I was thinking of the 3D shape scientists recently discovered in our cells — I had to look it up just now to refresh my memory. Not being an expert in geometry, I would describe the “scutoid” as an irregular prism-like shape with a hexagon on one end and a pentagon…
By the way, humans sent a robot to another planet, and the robot sent us the sound of a dust devil. On. Another. Planet.
Mars rover captures first sound of dust devil on red planet.
Eco-critical Code Studies: Reconfigurations of nature in the born-digital artifact “Colossal Cave Adventure” from text to VR
Video game history is colliding: Sierra founders are bringing a seminal text adventure game to VR (The Verge) Colossal Cave Adventure (Crowther 1976; Crowther and Woods 1977) (photo credit) Photo of Ken and Roberta Williams; Wikipedia photo of Adventure on a CRT Sierra On-Line (Sierra Entertainment, Inc.); King’s Quest, Space Quest, Phantasmagoria; original publisher of…
No filter October mist as I walked up from the parking lot. Not a bad view.
Enjoying a peaceful fall moment while it’s possible. Taking these moments as they come.
Treasure peaceful moments in a turbulent world.
The world’s population is lopsided.
People who caught Covid in first wave get ‘no immune boost’ from Omicron
Science deniers who expect medical research to be as tidy and predictable as a chapter in a middle school textbook sometimes see conspiracy theory when they look at the twists and turns in the scientific community’s response to the COVID-19. The scientists themselves would say they are doing science in real time, adapting to the…
