Remember being told that our five closest friends tell more about us than we think? Well, there’s a whole lot more to this fact.
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Stereotype Threat
Category Archives: Technology
A Celebration of Science?
On the day before my birthday, something phenomenal happened. Leaders from the US Senate, the House, and scientists, researchers, University Presidents, and corporate CEO’s, along with a few other advisors, held a conference. It was entitled “A Celebration of Science”. (The website has since disappeared. However, it has become an annual celebration- you can find events by search ‘celebration of science’.) This from leaders that have seemingly been denying the need for science in our policies. (What would you call it when climate change and evolution are denied and some believe that a woman’s body exudes something (miracles?) to prevent getting pregnant from a rape?)
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The Rest of the Story
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It’s coming- to a faucet near you. (Hopefully, not too soon!)
Roy A. Ackerman
About every 10 years, this comes up again. But, at least over my lifetime, it never seems to get very far. Water reuse.
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Attention. Attention. Attention!
So, here’s some research that is clearly aimed at getting our attention. Which I am giving it. But, please- read my entire blog before you go off (perhaps half-cocked) spouting some revelation that (in my opinion) is not really there.
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Really? I can make my own 3D designs?
I last wrote about Microsoft’s Kinect system about 18 months ago. (There was a three part mini-series that started here.) I discussed why the Kinect system was more than just a toy- with tremendous applications for medicine and healthcare. Today, we’ll talk about a totally different use. One that makes it very useful for 3D printing.
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I’m not going to take it anymore. One man’s quest- now 12600+ strong.
To most of us, this is the end of Summer. Vacations, weekends of play- and, if we have kids, their time to just frolic and enjoy. Unless they are in college. Which means by the time you read this, they will be on campus and buying their texts. Whose prices are – in a simple term- ridiculous.
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The computer made me do it?
You know it. Everyone has their own pace when it comes to assessing data- especially when we are under time pressures. Someone like me can juggle mountains of data (in my head); others need to write things down, still others need to p-r-o-c-e-s-s m—o—r—e s—l—o—w—l—y still. Obviously, we wouldn’t feel very secure if that last group are among our air traffic controllers.
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Low-hanging Fruit?
OK, so I’m still catching up on my reading. Between the novels and technical reading that I do (about 150 journals and four books a month, plus tables of contents of a hundred or two other journals), I try to read non-fiction. And, I don’t always get to the books when they first come out.
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Shh. We really don’t want to talk about this.
Years ago, we found multiple uses for a microbe that we had been manufacturing. It would increase the amount of synthetic snow, so less refrigeration power was needed to “powder the slopes”. The same microbe, when injected into Elm trees arrested a disease that was devouring the entire population. Unfortunately, by the time we were done with our studies, there weren’t enough trees left to support a commercial product.
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