A humanoid robot that can watch a human and immediately reproduce their movement.
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Friday, August 21, 2026
Every life form struggles to prevent cancer
45:20 from the very first multi cell organism onwards, life has been about cells shooting at each other to prevent one feel from becoming cancer. As soon as one cell starts replicating faster, it is naturally selecting for itself.
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Thinning of forests, instead of clear-cutting
https://youtu.be/ggWBECTC81w?is=-Zlt7T5VoDMlHkOT
Keeping the large trees standing mitigates fire risk. The logging company realized they needed to fund the environmental analysis and re-tooled the mills to handle small logs.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Timeline for tsunami modeled
I didn't realize it takes hours for a tsunami to traverse Puget sound. https://www.facebook.com/share/1CxTLwCxnz/
BYD EV for $7800
Interesting video explaining all the people losing money on cheap EV's from China, notably factory workers enduring "slavery-like" conditions, and billions of Chinese government subsidies.
Have they started selling Chinese EV's in Canada? I heard the PM is allowing 49000 of them in under a reduced tariff (NPR story )
Friday, August 14, 2026
A better life boat system
https://youtube.com/shorts/fDe_ya9VZcI?is=gdrGX-ETbhTQEA8h
This flexible escape shaft and self-inflating raft seem a lot gentler than the traditional design, and, as they point out, can deploy even if the shop is leaning at any angle.
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Claude learns your skill and copies your workflow
This could be a really good time saver... until it made a mistake and went rogue. I would be reticent to give AI complete control over my files like this...
Sunday, August 9, 2026
How GPS works
To get accurate position, the satellites are "told" their position from earth stations that locate relative to quasars. That enable accounting for tectonic movement.
Signals from the satellite are 50 watts, so only a quadrillionth of a watt reaches your phone - easily drowned out by jamming signals.
The signal from the satellite gets distorted on the ionosphere, adding several meters of uncertainty. Wackadoodle car propulsion idea
A very thorough discussion of the physics of a wacky compressed air vehicle that slides the wheels back and forth. He even builds a 3-D printed model of the idea. He also explains why rapid cooling as air expands is the downfall of previous compressed-air-driven vehicles, and the volume of air required to achieve range.
https://youtu.be/WvePFAgMECo?is=4tptWfWhdXPOq3hB
Saturday, August 8, 2026
Thursday, August 6, 2026
Using stored terrain data to locate position
As humans, we navigate by recognizing landmarks. This system recognizes everything from buildings and rivers to mountain peaks to determine position when GPS is jammed.
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Electric Nissan RV with 400 mile range
87 kilowatt-hour battery pack...real wood cabinets and countertops, a 90-liter refrigerator, and induction stove...Truma-Eezy auxiliary heater...$103,479...doesn't seem to be coming to the U.S.
Are 2nd babies born at a different time of year?
A highly popular strategy among second-time parents is to deliberately wait until August or September to conceive. This ensures they experience the bulk of their pregnancy during autumn and winter, allowing them to wear comfortable layers and avoid peak summer heat entirely while heavily pregnant.
First vs. Second: Across the general population, a massive volume of first-born conceptions happens spontaneously during late fall and winter holiday seasons, leading to an involuntary influx of late-summer births.
Intentional timeline: Because second-time parents are more experienced with tracking cycles and managing family timelines, they are far more likely to practice deliberate contraceptive spacing to override seasonal patterns and force a preferred birth month.
Energy conservation: Couples take into account that managing a first-born's outdoor summer activities while simultaneously experiencing third-trimester exhaustion and heat stress is structurally unsustainable. This makes planning for a winter or spring birth much more appealing the second time around.
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