Caffeine and Lasers
Caffeine and Lasers
Cam
I run a poruidly niche-less blog, where I talk about Science, Culture, Economics, Beer, Coffee, Technology and whatever else I feel like.
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[ ] Figure out what info actually is required [!EMAIL]- [[2026-02-16]] Francis Just keep collecting any background papers similar so we have ab it of an evidence base to work with. The more awareness you have about patents and the...
Basically no one outside of Academia actually understands how Academia works. That's understandable, I don't really know how a law office works. In anycase, here is a super short rundown on the Acedemic Food Chain 1 The Food Chain 1.1...
Lauren Leek's Fantastic Essay explores why in the age of personalized algorithms for everyone, everything feels so samey. In her words: "We have never had more individual data and naive intuition says all that granular personal data...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction A new friend of mine recently reccommended this one to me after I was gushing about how much I loved "The Disposessed" and emplored me to go into it blind. Oh boy am I glad that I did. In that spirit I will spoil...
I do not think that it does. At least not necessarily. Lets not put the cart before the horse here. In truth: The long arc of history veers towards winners, so the real question is.... why does it look like progressives keep winning in...
Rating: 🟧 Type: Fiction
Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction If you are an avid reader of Doctorow's blog "Pluralistic" you will have probably heard most of the arguments here before. That isn't too much of a complaint, after all, Docotow specifically says the point of...
In some work headed by Macquarie Uni, a new species of spider was discovered in Northern Queensland (With a really cool hunting strategy). See this spider (dubbed the ballista spider) hunts green ants, the really angry, territorial green...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction
Turns out you can bend things using lasers. The process relies on two key characteristics of most solids, (especially metal and glass) Things expand when they heat up Things get soft and bends when they are hot enough So the process is...
My favourite thing about owning a 3D printer is the very specific tools which I would never pay for. Take a guess what this is for: It is a key for popping out portafilters from the group head on my espresso machine Oridinarily I can do...
Another cool scientist profile dropped on Nature earlier, and I wanted to share it here. Billie Goolsby uses robots built by Tony Chen to eavesdrop on the conversations between Frogs and Tadpoles. How cool is that! Essentially, it turns...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Fiction
I spotted a remarkably simple demonstration of optical diffraction the other night, from looking across at the far away lights on the otherside of the train tracks from a balcony. I noticed they looked quite different dependng on whether...
Rating: ⭐ Type: Fiction