Yesterday’s video from NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day website (link) is a short one produced by the National Spaced Society to remind people what’s coming very soon: the first flyby of Pluto. (The images of Pluto shown are of … Continue reading
For now robots don’t appear to present much danger to our Pop-Tart supplies, nor are they likely to be rivals for our dogs’ affections. Link: https://youtu.be/YdaEUJLArKs by … Continue reading
Complete with unintentional underwater videography. A few successes somehow made it into this compilation. Link: https://youtu.be/RbE6BKJ2drQ by … Continue reading
John Oliver and HBO’s Last Week Tonight take on another important subject, this time patent trolls. These are outfits that buy up patents (often overly broad ones handed out too carelessly by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office). Patent trolls … Continue reading
This isn’t particularly graphic, I’m glad to say, but it does illustrate the dangers of cell phone use, especially for texting, while behind the wheel. The drivers shown here are all teenagers, but we older goats aren’t immune. I’ve wised … Continue reading
As you probably know, Minecraft is a versatile and creative video game from Sweden that allows players to build virtual worlds out of blocks or go on adventures in worlds created by others. An organization based in Finland called Minecraft … Continue reading
At the Mayo Clinic, a blind man with retinitis pigmentosa describes his first impressions of his new bionic eye. The vision is primitive, but he is able to see something, and his description of the experience is worth listening to. … Continue reading
The Falcon 9 rocket from the private SpaceX corporation recently delivered another Dragon capsule full of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. But this time SpaceX tried something new: a very preliminary test of a system intended to … Continue reading
This goes nicely with the clip from John Cleese I posted this morning: An article by Tim McDonnell (link) from just before Christmas summarizes some of last year’s worst new developments and continuing annoyances in the realm of people who, … Continue reading
[Updated to add a link to Drum’s follow-up post.] Kevin Drum, one of the best political bloggers in the business, offers up some interesting speculation about technological, environmental, economic, and political changes over roughly the next three decades (link) and … Continue reading