Terrible air quality in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez

https://elpasomatters.org/2025/03/12/el-paso-air-quality-rank-dust-pollution-wind-weather/

A real hotspot for pollution from drought conditions and wind, and fossil fuels. 

Communism vs Capitalism

You have two cows

Socialism: If you have two cows, you give one to your neighbor.

Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the government and the government then gives you some milk.

Fascism: If you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the government; then the government sells you some milk.

Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.

- Wikipedia https://share.google/qp5yasJ71bCnnUiLF

Parkinson's tail

https://youtu.be/wABYQ8_7KGk?is=ZpnITqIOFAcPABto

Smart! A moveable tail to help offset balance issues. 

Physicians Are Not Providers

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-03852

The name "provider" deprofessionalizes medicine and reduces medicine to transactions. 

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. 

Narco subs go autonomous

https://youtu.be/rLm4qysvzxs?si=saBXVeOhZbrHSGn1

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. 

Cool - ask Google Omni to imagine a drone fly-through

https://youtu.be/ZfqLUVLRTj8?si=m1hOznDsORUzsXJ6

Here's a video I prompted with Google Omni

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. 

https://youtu.be/oBDX_dPvq4A?si=O1TRbAuD-R2VUI-y

Re: Love, health, and friends.

"Love to share, health to spare, and friends to share" 

-Quincy Jones on his 82^nd birthday

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_

1. Does this buy me time, or steal it?
2. Is this a story, or just a thing? 
3. Does this bring me closer to people? 
4. Can I make it a treat vs. a standard? 
5. Can I pay now and enjoy later?

Snail Mail

https://g.co/gemini/share/d6a28b98847b

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). 

Electric hydrofoil ferry uses 80% less power than comparable ferries

https://youtu.be/EkhMDAxY8Jk?si=S0FiDJXPXrDmQFIW

Or you can have their personal C-8 boat. 

Yours for under $400,000. 

What about in rough seas?

https://youtu.be/2i2Zf9WVlNY?si=MjRyehePFaO80zwY

https://youtu.be/IOVlTKmK5bc?si=kdWtVWfWgd6ljj-m