Joe, a retired Canadian rancher, has a hobby that keeps him busy down in the basement. See The Story Behind Joe, the Man who Excavated his Basement Using Only R/C Scale Models Joe: “First, I would like to make a correction as I have not been digging the basement for 15 years as reported but [...]
Cognitive scientists develop new take on old problem: why human language has so many words with multiple meanings at PhysOrg has some interesting implications for legal and technical prose as well as for the nature of some arguments in the online forums and discussions. To understand why ambiguity makes a language more efficient rather than [...]
Dr. Dubik and Dr. Wood thought it necessary to make sure that ‘dead as a doornail’ was indeed an appropriate analogy. Since advanced life support technology has confused things somewhat and there are now laws concerning brain death, standards matter. So How Dead Is a Doornail? If the definition of death as expressed by the [...]
John Weidner has several posts on Bible facts you may not know at Random Jottings. In #3 he notes that people in Jesus’ time didn’t travel alone but lived, and traveled, in extended family groups. There is also the item that fishing belonged to the state and the fishermen Jesus recruited had to have had [...]
The I’net is like a neighborhood with a bunch of teenagers constantly checking the doors and windows to see if they can get into houses and do something to brag about their successes. Seldom is it worse than just trespassing and graffiti but every now and then the behavior can have more important consequences such [...]
Physorg describes research aimed towards building a peer network for automobiles on the motorway. The idea is that a car in distress, such as in a crash, could tell others about the event. The other vehicles could then take action to avoid joining a pile-up. Vehicles farther away could re-route their path to avoid the [...]
The action is just south of Natchez where the Red River approaches the Mississippi. The Red is the river that runs the border between Texas and Oklahoma and then heads across Louisiana. It used to get to the Mississippi but now joins the Atchafalaya. The elevation of the Mississippi here can be just 40 feet [...]
Memory is one of the critical components of a computing system. Core Memory Then and Now describes one big technological advance that made modern computing possible. All the way up through the 70′s magnetic core memory was the primary working (random access) memory for mainframe computers. From wikipedia: Two key inventions led to the development [...]
It’s a world record. Siemens is connecting the French and Spanish power grids with a DC link capable of transmitting the power of two typical gigawatt power stations. At the heart of the new system is a converter that uses insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), which are semiconductor devices that convert alternating current into direct [...]
The Survival Blog gets into some interesting topics and ideas. The story about how to deal with feral children was one. Today is about cattle raising basics. It is an eye opener for those who haven’t given much thought to the life of a rancher. Keep in mind that if you’re going to work with [...]