The Toyota Mirai, an hydrogen fuel cell vehicle
Meet The Electric Car That Doesn’t Need To Be Plugged In. We’ve already met. Dozens of times, over a period of decades.
The fuel cell vehicle is a good example of a technology that never made it and never will. (more…)
Question: What do you suppose is represented in this pic here?
Some of the most powerful rivers in Croatia are dammed up to form man-made lakes so as to generate hydroelectricity. Apparently, it’s been that way since the late 19th Century. (more…)
VICTORY HAS A HUNDRED FATHERS AND DEFEAT IS AN ORPHAN – Popularized by President John F. Kennedy , but coined by the Italian diplomat, and son-in-law of Mussolini, Count Caleazzo Ciano (1903-44). (more…)
Over the last half century here in the U.S., there have been a few mega-trends that have redefined American life, and most of these are summed up in the work cynicism. We now have a pervasive distrust of government that, was perhaps bubbling beneath the surface, but didn’t have any real size and strength at the end of WW II. (more…)
This piece in The Economist puts humankind’s position vis-a-vis climate change into perspective. It’s not the end of the world, and it’s not the end of humanity either. (more…)
Firewood stacked for the coming winter. Slovenia.
Slovenians put their priorities in different places than we Americans do. For instance, they make a huge deal out of stacking firewood; the image at the left is something one sees virtually everywhere over here. I’ve split a fair amount of wood in my day, but I have to admit I had a considerable devil-may-care attitude to how I stacked the logs when I was finished. (more…)
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It was on this day in 1848 that the American Association for the Advancement of Science, known as AAAS, was created.
Until recently, math and science were exalted as the disciplines that separated truth from falsity, fact from opinion or propaganda. (more…)
The incredible photos here remind us of one thing: the power that rests in all of us to change the world. When Greta Thunberg would skip school each Friday to protest here government leaders’ indifference to environmental protection, she could not possibly have foreseen the world’s reaction just two short years later.
