Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
Source: Reddit Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Existentialism Oligarchy (noun): government by the few; a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes, Merriam-Webster In…
Friday
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This chip-based "tractor-beam," which uses an intensely focused beam of light to capture and manipulate biological particles without damaging the cells, could help biologists study the mechanisms of diseases. Credits: Credit: Sampson Wilcox, RLE…
Thursday
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
A finished device: Optical microscope image of the transistor (left) and an ultra-scaled vertical nanowire (right). (Courtesy: Y Shao) Topics: Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Nanoengineering, Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology, Semiconductor…
Wednesday
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
 Emissions of Carbon Dioxide in the Transportation Sector, Motor Vehicle Miles Traveled, and Emissions per Mile Traveled by Light-Duty Vehicles Measured as a Percentage of Their Value in 1975 - Transportation sector emissions have not risen nearly…
Jan 14
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
Ice sample on the melter during continuous ice core chemical analyses at the Desert Research Institute (Credit: Sylvain Masclin) Topics: Chemistry, Civilization, Democracy, Environment, Existentialism It’s perhaps historically appropriate that the…
Jan 13
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
 Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, ExistentialismRef: https://litkicks.com/ingatsbystracks/, In Gatsby’s Tracks: Locating the Valley of Ashes in a 1924 Photo. The ash heap was a metaphor for the rot and decay of…
Jan 10
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
 The Palisades Fire on January 7, 2025. ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy Stock Photo Topics: Civilization, Climate Change, Existentialism “People have changed the climate of the world. Now they’re waiting for the old days to come back.”—Lauren Olamina,…
Jan 9
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
CROCUS researchers crossed Chicago’s Michigan Avenue as they collected data on how buildings, streets, and greenspaces impact temperature and air quality. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.) Topics: Civilization, Climate Change, Environment,…
Jan 8
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
Image source: https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/methane-molecule Topics: Chemistry, Civilization, Climate Change, Entropy, Environment, Global Warming The "good news": you can download the PDF for free by registering an email, or read the report…
Jan 7
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
An artist's impression of the cosmic web (Volker Springel/Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics/et al) Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Einstein, Research Q: Why does science seem to always change its mind? A: Because, the…
Jan 6
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Democracy, Existentialism September 11, 2001, was on a Tuesday. We were a year from a contested election decided by the Supreme Court. We were scrambling to make sense of the senseless, and trying…
Jan 3
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
James Carter, the 39th President of the United States, https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/james-c...: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Education, Existentialism, Nobel Peace Prize,…
Dec 30, 2024
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
Topics: Civics, Civil Rights, Civilization, Climate Change, Democracy, Existentialism Like many people after the election, I retreated from corporate media, which is anything on television and in print now. GE/Comcast, News Corps/Fox, Disney,…
Dec 27, 2024
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
The hills in Mars' Australe Scopuli region, located near the planet's south pole, are covered in carbon dioxide ice. The darker areas are layers of dust. (Image credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin) Topics: Astrophysics, Environment, ESA, Mars, NASA, Planetary…
Dec 26, 2024
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
The firm is reported to have produced at least 962 humanoid robots so far. Global Times/Agibot Topics: Applied Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics The company has established a “data collection…
Dec 24, 2024
Reginald L. Goodwin posted a blog post
The figure illustrates three events in Minkowski spacetime. Event 𝐵 is neither in the past nor in the future of 𝐴, 𝐴 ∼ 𝐵, and event 𝐶 is neither in the past nor in the future of 𝐵, 𝐵 ∼ 𝐶. Despite this, 𝐶 ≁ 𝐴. Indeed, 𝐶 is in the future of 𝐴: 𝐶 ≻ 𝐴.…
Dec 23, 2024
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