I’m sure my kids do, as we watched his program many, many times when they were very young. This, from The Atlantic:
Category: science and tech
SpaceX, Doing It Again
Cassie
What Is A Kilogram, Anyway?
This being Saturday, I am shedding guilt about not accomplishing on my “important” projects and letting the distractions have their way. This process first led to the previous two posts today, which in turn took me to another old posting on femto-photography, in turn leading to this:
The Griffin Warrior
New discoveries suggest that Western civilization may have evolved more from intermingling and acceptance of cultures — such as Mycenaean and Minoan — than the dominance of one over the other. Read more from this Smithsonian report.
The Empty Brain
Not a computer, says this author:
https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
Suggested Reading for Some Annoying Neighbors
http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/videos/a30249/why-you-shouldnt-warm-up-your-car/
And while we are on seasonal subjects …
John Deere: Green
Things have changed since my time on an Iowa farm in the 1940s and 1950s …
Was Einstein Wrong About the Speed of Light?
Maybe it is not constant after all, suggest some physicists trying to explain yet-unanswered questions about the universe.
Seeing this discussion today comes right after we finished a BBC two-part program on the relationship of the beginning and the end of the universe, “The Beginning And End Of The Universe”. You can see this, like we did, on Netflix (with subtitles for the aging among us!) or on YouTube:
Happiness Sans Facebook
Most people close to me know that I avoid Facebook, in part for some private reasons that are certainly peculiar to me and may not imply judgment of FB users in general. Here is a report of a Danish semi-experiment which suggests that happiness can be increased by ditching the venerable ubiquitous social media platform.