Vox‘s Scream cold open for this video immediately had me hooked. Now that we’re approaching spooky season I’m so glad to know that I should at least try to change the motion smoothing setting in my own TV before starting my ghoulish Sunday night flicks! My TV is def way too old …
One of my objectives with this blog is to connect with people online. Back in the day, before the social media silos, blogs talked to each other with pingbacks and trackbacks. I was wondering if that was still a thing; I started searching and found about webmentions. Most …
How do you get a fully stacked rocket from the assembly building to the launch pad? Companies have various methods which work for various loads. But what if your rocket is a Saturn V, Space Shuttle, or the new NASA Space Launch System (SLS)?Two crawler-transporters were designed …
This is a recording of the talk I gave at A New HOPE conference on 7/24/2022 in NYC. I have posted it here until the official recording is available at https://www.youtube.com/user/Channel2600.
The Romans revered their city’s legendary founding and greatly admired those who had laid the foundations. They called their ancestors the maiores—literally, “the greater ones”—and carefully passed down their wisdom from one generation to the next. In the Eternal City, Arendt …
I think a lot of people are like I was this morning. That is, I had an unexamined mental image of “genetic modification” as something that’s only been possible either through selective breeding1 or some sort of computer-heavy process starting in the 90s.