15 uncoupled pendulums of increasing lengths dance and produce visual traveling waves, standing waves and beating [source, by Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations: http://bit.ly/1eKRJUB
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Wow. Eye-blowing
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INNOVATION: visual traveling waves, standing waves and beating
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INNOVATION: Make an app that “knows” my keys
Thursday, June 17, 2021I have a ring full of “unknown” keys.
Where’s the phone app that can, with a database of “my” keys, can use AI to match with an “unknown” one?
Argh!
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INNOVATION: Does an EV owner either stuck with it or returned to gas?
Monday, May 10, 2021https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ev-owners-switch-gas-power-study/#ftag=CAD590a51e
Surprising number of EV owners switch back to gas power, study says
The study looked at owners in California specifically and found home charging was a huge factor in people dropping the EV lifestyle.
Sean Szymkowski
May 4, 2021 9:14 a.m. PT
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As so much of the world works to pivot away from fossil fuels and the internal-combustion engine, a new study from the University of California, Davis, published in the journal Nature Energy last week, showed some concerning signs for what the auto industry still needs to get right. According to this study, which looked at California EV owners specifically between 2015-2019, 18% of electric vehicle owners switched back to a gas-powered car. For plug-in hybrid owners, 20% of them flipped back to a car solely powered by an engine.
The major takeaway from the EV flip-flopping lands in the lap of charging — specifically at-home charging. The lack of reliable Level 2 charging at home (that’s a 240-volt plug) was a major factor leading to EV “discontinuance,” as the researchers called it. That makes sense. If you don’t have a place to charge reliably, it makes it a lot harder to enjoy the benefits associated with an EV, including an overall lower cost of ownership. Public charging infrastructure remains just OK, with many stations down for maintenance, or simply not close enough to drivers, even in California, where chargers are more common than the rest of the US. And charging times at a public station still aren’t on par with gassing up a car.
According to the research, about half of the respondents who bought another EV had access to Level 2 charging, compared to the 30% who dumped the electric lifestyle, but had a proper plug at home. The research found owners were 53% less likely to buy another EV if they did not have access to convenient, at-home charging. Essentially, it was a coin toss over whether an EV owner either stuck with it or returned to gas pumps.
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It’s hard to imagine without HUGE tax subsidies, a major oil disruption, or a Gooferment diktat, that “We, The Sheeple” will give up the cheap reliable option of a gas powered car.
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INNOVATION: Sounds like transhumanism is just around the corner
Thursday, April 15, 2021https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374749/elon-musk-neuralink-monkey-pong-brain-interface
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There’s probably no substitute better than just watching the 3m 27s long video as it runs through how the macaque monkey is playing Pong without a joystick.
But in case you don’t want to click or watch or engage, here’s the outline on what’s going on from The Verge:
Pager, a 9-year-old macaque monkey, had a Neuralink implanted about six weeks before the video was shot, the video’s unnamed narrator says.
- He was first taught to play video games with a joystick for a banana smoothie reward, delivered through a metal straw.
- While he was doing this, the Neuralink device recorded information about which neurons were firing — learning, essentially, to predict hand movements by recording which regions fired. After learning the patterns, the joystick Pager used to play was disconnected from the computer.
- The monkey appears to go on playing the game using only his mind — playing a game of Pong with no joystick whatsoever.
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Glad I won’t be around for the mandatory chipping!
But for the souls who are “differently abled”, or whatever the politically correct term is today, this could be a Godsend.
For others, it might be a curse.
To me a beer flavored smoothie might entrap me.
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INNOVATION: Negative Leap Seconds?
Wednesday, January 6, 2021https://nypost.com/2021/01/05/atomic-clock-scientists-suggest-subtracting-a-second-from-minute/
Atomic clock scientists suggest shortening minute to 59 seconds
By Hannah Sparks
January 5, 2021
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Nevertheless, Earth slows down for no one. In fact, according to global time officials, it’s speeding up, prompting suggestions to shorten the minute by a second, the Telegraph reported.
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Who would think that “time” is not a physical constant like Ππ Pi, ΕεEpsilon, or any of the many other ‘constants’?
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INNOVATION: Tiny homes see to solve homelessness?
Wednesday, December 23, 2020$130,000 for an 8-foot-by-8-foot shed? That’s what L.A. is paying in a bid to house the homeless
By DOUG SMITH, SENIOR WRITER
DEC. 12, 2020
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Combining public and private funds, the nonprofit now manages 550 tiny homes in villages on public property, private property and church property around the Seattle area. It costs from $300,000 to $500,000 to set up 40 or 50 homes, depending on the sewer connection, Lee said. Portable toilets initially used have been replaced by permanent bathrooms and showers.
The villages function as communities, with residents all performing chores and, at some, taking part in self-governance.
Seattle’s citizen-driven model never got traction in Los Angeles.
When a self-styled homeless activist started delivering hand-made tiny homes to people living on the streets, the city ruled the structures illegal and quickly stamped out the movement.
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Too bad the Gooferment squashes any private attempt to solve the problem that the Gooferment created!
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INNOVATION: Time to replace Gooferment Skrules with Parent’s choice
Thursday, December 17, 2020https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article247859110.html
In the age of COVID, give parents ‘school choice’ on best way to educate their children | Opinion
BY ED POZZUOLI
DECEMBER 15, 2020 05:13 PM
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Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida’s Department of Education rightly have continued to urge, and require, all public schools to provide the choice of live in-person instruction for all students. Plenty of attention has been paid — correctly — to the public-health issues involved in opening public schools safely during the COVID-19 pandemic, but one aspect has been mostly overlooked: The question of keeping schools open, like other matters of educational opportunity, is also a civil-rights issue.
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It’s hard to imagine a more “broken system” than “education” in the USA.
Remember that the origins of Gooferment Skrules comes from Horrace Mann emulating the Prussian schools.
The true purpose of these “systems” was to create: cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite!
If the WuFlu is real, and I think that’s still an issue for further discussion, then perhaps the birth of “remote education” is the silver lining.
Could it break the strangle hold that the teachers’ unions have on the politicians and bureaucrats?
One can only hope!
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INNOVATION: A Drudge Report successor?
Saturday, November 28, 2020Drudge Report Sold?…
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November 25, 2020 3:40 PM
In interviews with over a half-dozen various former Drudge associates, about half suggested that the site may no longer be under his control. For these people, politics alone couldn’t explain all the changes at the site. The humor, the oddball stories about sex robots and exorcisms, and the obsession with weather events are all almost entirely gone, along with any pretense to original reporting.
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It was clear that the “Drudge Report” had sold out when it became the anti-Trump. Prior to that it was pretty even handed. It looked “hard right” when compared to the “(L | M) stream media”.
Nature abhors a vacuum!
So, here comes a successor?
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INNOVATION: The Tunnel of Eupalinos – Futility Closet
Tuesday, October 20, 2020When the Greek engineer Eupalinos contrived a tunnel in the 6th century B.C. to carry water through Mount Kastro to Samos, he started digging simultaneously from the north and south, hoping that the two tunnels would meet in the heart of the mountain. He arranged this through some timely doglegs: When the two teams could hear one another (meaning they were about 12 meters apart), each deviated from its course in both the horizontal (left) and vertical (right) planes:
Source: The Tunnel of Eupalinos – Futility Closet
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I’d heard about this decades ago in injineering skrule. But didn’t realize the enormity of the undertaking.
Guess that’s why I never “grokked” the importance of civil engineering.
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INNOVATION: Two ways to address a specific location
Tuesday, September 29, 2020Google quietly created a locator.
https://maps.google.com/pluscodes/
In my test, it gave me “FHG3+2Q”.
I like what3words for its simplicity.
In my test, it gave me “plus.rents.copy”.
https://map.what3words.com/plus.rents.cope
As an alternative to What3Words, I don’t think so.
We will have to see what the market place selects.
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