Smart! A moveable tail to help offset balance issues.
Tom Elwood -best of the internet.
Here are some youtube videos, or articles that caught my eye - from the New York Times, Consumer Reports, Popular Science etc.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Friday, June 12, 2026
Physicians Are Not Providers
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-03852
The name "provider" deprofessionalizes medicine and reduces medicine to transactions.
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Simple changes to reduce pedestrian deaths
https://youtu.be/tMBR3ur1egk?si=9-nrflnbzMepUk8d
But it takes political will to risk losing votes because they slow traffic down.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Satellite radar
https://youtu.be/UKLuei1CnZY?si=R1RFdWvtOGLBmhBA
Satellite radar see through clouds. Using interferometry from multiple passes, it can detect mm movement of ground (to predict landslides) and bridges (to detect failure earlier.) Military applications abound - in tracking enemy vehicles in any weather.
Saturday, June 6, 2026
Wow - position-sensing that can see through walls using your Wi-Fi router
https://youtu.be/0OdR8rRMz3I?si=zgOc_-IuUdFtrje9
Reflected radio waves can reveal a lot of information about things moving nearby. And, at a global scale, satellites can track ships that have "gone dark" for nefarious purposes.
And this tech is simple and cheap - in this video, a single chip setup could read her heart rate and breathing through walls.
Friday, June 5, 2026
Re: Love, health, and friends.
"Love to share, health to spare, and friends to share"
-Quincy Jones on his 82nd birthday
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Brave new world of human gene editing
Earlier attempts made unpredictable, catastrophic changes. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/science/embryos-gene-editing-crispr.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Spend more effectively
https://youtu.be/iGkVqeFUVNU?si=-8aofXF2xfmqcmm_
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Does this buy me time, or steal it?
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Is this a story, or just a thing?
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Does this bring me closer to people?
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Can I make it a treat vs. a standard?
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Can I pay now and enjoy later?
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Sleeping with even a little light promotes diabetes
Just one night of exposure to 100 lux (equivalent to a streetlight shining through a curtain) during sleep impaired glucose tolerance the next morning. It also "increased heart rate and sympathetic [nervous system] activity during the entire sleep period."
This was studied in 20 healthy young adults 18-40 years old, and the moderate-light condition was four 60-watt incandescent overhead ceiling light bulbs (a total of 100 lux).
Monday, June 1, 2026
Electric hydrofoil ferry uses 80% less power than comparable ferries
https://youtu.be/EkhMDAxY8Jk?si=S0FiDJXPXrDmQFIW
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Warehouse logistics technology
https://youtu.be/5lCWqEFVzbY?si=UlmIaLtfDhh_FE_h
I hope you like to nerd out on this logistics equipment as much as Destin does!
How Google maps funds the best route, efficiently
I keep coming back to this video in my mind, imagining how efficiently a computer finds the best route between point so rapidly.
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