Airports are in chaos as the holiday travel season approachesβand the railroad is looking pretty good by comparison, @kait.bsky.social writes.
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Trying to save the world, one sentient being at a time. May Compassion be our Compass! (Retired from the Advanced Light Source at LBNL @als-lbnl.bsky.social / @berkeleylab.lbl.gov )
Airports are in chaos as the holiday travel season approachesβand the railroad is looking pretty good by comparison, @kait.bsky.social writes.
16.11.2025 22:15 β π 120 π 20 π¬ 8 π 3In future, flexibly operated heat pumps and electric cars could reduce both electricity imports and electricity prices. That is according to a new study by a Swiss research consortium led by ETH Zurich. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
11.11.2025 08:52 β π 24 π 9 π¬ 1 π 2"A Woman's Instructional Guide for Men" ππ€£π #MaryMcHugh
09.11.2025 20:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0π€£ππ€£ --- www.speedbump.com --- #SpeedBump #DaveCoverly #LeafBlowers
07.11.2025 19:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Living on earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun." - Ashleigh Brilliant, π€ www.AshleighBrilliant.com , #PotShots #BrilliantThoughts #AshleighBrilliant
06.11.2025 22:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Over the last months, weβve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data β we just launched it:
ourworldindata.org/introducing-...
Let me know what you think. Does it work for you?
I dropped off my ballot today at the "Food 4 Less" in #Woodland #California -- "Food 4 Less, Vote 4 Free" π€£ (& "Vote 4 Freedom"!) Let's hope that Wisdom, Compassion, & Justice will one day prevail in this complex (& often bewildering) nation & world of ours.... πππππ #Vote
04.11.2025 20:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0One nice thing about working at a National Laboratory is that you are in the midst of the most advanced, cutting-edge technology.... π€£ #EarthquakeDetectionTechnology
03.11.2025 17:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Auspicious DiΜa de los Muertos to all! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_... - #DiΜaDeMuertos #DayOfTheDead
01.11.2025 18:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Better living through chemistry! π€£
31.10.2025 13:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Our inability to understand the exponential function is our biggest weakness" So says Prof. Albert Bartlett in this thoughtful video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bvw... (I actually think we have bigger weaknesses than this, but we can give the good professor some room for hyperbole here...) ππ€πππ
28.10.2025 16:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sitting thru another meeting... ππ€£π (Image courtesy of Emily Steiner ( www.facebook.com/emily.steine... ), Medievalist Extraordinaire! π€© )
27.10.2025 15:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For good, ill, neutral, or mixed, "Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground: Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nationβs 'largest A.I.-empowered' university..." π€ NY Times unlocked article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... #AIinEducation #CalState
27.10.2025 05:05 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0May blessings be with Green eyes π₯°
22.10.2025 17:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"University of California sets world record for Nobel Prizes in a single year" www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/u... ππ€©ππ€π CC #UnveristyOfCalifornia #UCBerkeley #UCLA #UCSantaBarbara #UCSanDiego - @berkeleylab.lbl.gov - @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov - @als.lbl.gov - #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2025
21.10.2025 23:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0πΆ She's a Smoothie Operatorπ΅Smoooothie Operatorrrr πΆ ππ€£π (Seen in #Davis #California π ) -- #Sade #SmoothOperator #Operators #Smoothies #DavisCA
17.10.2025 18:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I came across this photo of my Dad, from a news clipping in the 1970s (I believe). He was a tough ol' Marine, most at home in the wilderness. Though life with Dad was complicated, I've always be thankful he was my father. Semper Fi, Dad! I'll never be able to thank you enough....
16.10.2025 16:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I asked Google Gemini (AI) two questions: "In what year did more than 50% of americans have internet service?" & "In what year did more than 50% of americans own a personal computer?" (An AI-response is only as good as the resources on which it is based! Easy to forget ....) #InternetHistory
15.10.2025 22:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0From 1954: "How to dial your phone by Bell System" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYP... π€ #TechNostalgia #BlastFromThePast #TelephoneHistory #Telephony #The50s
14.10.2025 23:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The advertising algorithm seems to think I'm interested in buying a shipping container ππ€£π Good thing I'm not given to impulse buying, because I rather like the 3rd one to the right! π
13.10.2025 19:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0These long-lived little rodents are resistant to cancer, arthritis, & other diseases: can we discover their health secrets & develop them for human beings? More - BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article... -- Science: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... -- #CancerPrevention #Cancer #Arthritis #NakedMoleRats
09.10.2025 19:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was interested to learn that LBNL scientist (and former Director of Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry: foundry.lbl.gov ) Omar M. Yaghi has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [shared] :
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...
More about Professor Yaghi here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_M....
The "Paradox of Buridan's Donkey" strikes again! π€£ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan... -- #BuridansAss #Aristotle #Spinoza #JeanBuridan #AlGhazali #Paradox #Dilemma #Ambiguity
06.10.2025 19:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A map projection necessarily distorts *something* -- it is a 2-dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional reality. πππ Different projections distort different things (& get other things right). Good to be acquainted with the different types of map projections! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
05.10.2025 00:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Calder Gardens, a Light-Filled Museum and Prairie, Houses the Sculptorβs Work in Philadelphia www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/cald...
04.10.2025 12:38 β π 14 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1Wow!! π€© May all blessings be with the first female Archbishop of Canterbury!! ππΉππΉπ www.bbc.com/news/article... -- (Though not Anglican myself, I am happy to see the progress of fairness anywhere in our struggling human species π₯° ) Pacem in Terris! #ArchbishopofCanterbury
03.10.2025 17:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We're here! Come friend, follow, etc.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Blue skies from now on ?