D. Brett Richardson

America Is Taking the Train Airport chaos is leading people to ride the Amtrak. Will they stick with it?

Airports are in chaos as the holiday travel season approaches—and the railroad is looking pretty good by comparison, @kait.bsky.social writes.

How electric cars and heat pumps can help Switzerland implement its Energy Strategy In 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 Zuric...

In 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-...

"A Woman's Instructional Guide for Men" 😂🤣😂 #MaryMcHugh

🤣😂🤣 --- www.speedbump.com --- #SpeedBump #DaveCoverly #LeafBlowers

"Living on earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun." - Ashleigh Brilliant, 🤓 www.AshleighBrilliant.com , #PotShots #BrilliantThoughts #AshleighBrilliant

Introducing our new, more powerful search Finding what you’re looking for, or discovering something new, has never been easier.

Over the last months, we’ve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data — 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" 🤣 (& "Vote 4 Freedom"!) Let's hope that Wisdom, Compassion, & Justice will one day prevail in this complex (& often bewildering) nation & world of ours.... 🌎🌞🌍🌈🌏 #Vote

One nice thing about working at a National Laboratory is that you are in the midst of the most advanced, cutting-edge technology.... 🤣 #EarthquakeDetectionTechnology

Auspicious Día de los Muertos to all! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_... - #DíaDeMuertos #DayOfTheDead

Better living through chemistry! 🤣

YouTube video by DrAlanBarnard Our inability to understand the exponential function is our biggest weakness - Prof Albert Bartlett

"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...) 🌎🤓🌍😊🌏

Sitting thru another meeting... 😂🤣😂 (Image courtesy of Emily Steiner ( www.facebook.com/emily.steine... ), Medievalist Extraordinaire! 🤩 )

Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground

For 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 nation’s 'largest A.I.-empowered' university..." 🤓 NY Times unlocked article: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... #AIinEducation #CalState

May blessings be with Green eyes 🥰

"University of California sets world record for Nobel Prizes in a single year" www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/u... 🌎🤩🌍🤓🌏 CC #UnveristyOfCalifornia #UCBerkeley #UCLA #UCSantaBarbara #UCSanDiego - @berkeleylab.lbl.gov - @molecularfoundry.lbl.gov - @als.lbl.gov - #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2025

YouTube video by Funky Beat Sade - Smooth Operator (1984) #musica #80s #oldsong #80smusic #oldisgold #music #pop #disco #dance

www.youtube.com/shorts/gOPzZ...

🎶 She's a Smoothie Operator🎵Smoooothie Operatorrrr 🎶 😂🤣😂 (Seen in #Davis #California 😊 ) -- #Sade #SmoothOperator #Operators #Smoothies #DavisCA

I 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....

I 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

YouTube video by trendymagic 1954 How to dial your phone by Bell System

From 1954: "How to dial your phone by Bell System" www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuYP... 🤓 #TechNostalgia #BlastFromThePast #TelephoneHistory #Telephony #The50s

The advertising algorithm seems to think I'm interested in buying a shipping container 😂🤣😂 Good thing I'm not given to impulse buying, because I rather like the 3rd one to the right! 😛

The Nobel Prize on X: "BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to https://t.co/Zgth8KNJk9" / X BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to https://t.co/Zgth8KNJk9

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These 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

I 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! 🤣 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan... -- #BuridansAss #Aristotle #Spinoza #JeanBuridan #AlGhazali #Paradox #Dilemma #Ambiguity

A map projection necessarily distorts *something* -- it is a 2-dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional reality. 🌍🌏🌎 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...

Calder Gardens, a Light-Filled Museum and Prairie, Houses the Sculptor's Work in Philadelphia Calder Gardens is designed to bring art, architecture, and nature into a constant and ever-evolving conversation.

Calder Gardens, a Light-Filled Museum and Prairie, Houses the Sculptor’s Work in Philadelphia www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/10/cald...

Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury She becomes the first female leader of the Church of England, replacing Justin Welby who resigned over his handling of a safeguarding scandal.

Wow!! 🤩 May all blessings be with the first female Archbishop of Canterbury!! 🌍🌹🌏🌹🌎 www.bbc.com/news/article... -- (Though not Anglican myself, I am happy to see the progress of fairness anywhere in our struggling human species 🥰 ) Pacem in Terris! #ArchbishopofCanterbury

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Blue skies from now on ?