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New England’s investment in solar has paid off in electricity savings during this summer’s heat waves. Italy could be the next country to build a solar railway after Switzerland’s successful trial. MIT engineers have created an...
Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve dreamed of constructing a giant labyrinth. I used to draw elaborate mazes1 on napkins during family dinners, dreaming of one day building one big enough to wander in forever. I’ve spend days...
On the road at an industry event all week in Louisiana, so we’re taking a knee on Warship Wednesday. In its place, how about this amazing photo essay by LIFE Photographer Peter Stackpole of the Colorado-class “Super 16” dreadnought USS...
Life is a horror story. Human beings are born in a bloody process, and there are a million miserable ways to die. Lucky people die suddenly after a long life with fewer of the horrifying events than the average person suffers through...
Our new home in the Netherlands sits in a mundane residential area full of young families like ours. The street name comes from mate / made / maat (‘meadow’) — a field that once lay here and now survives only in the name. Cycling through...
So, three weeks to the day since I completed the online formalities, I received delivery today, by courier, of my new UK passport. Fair play to the Passport Office for their extremely efficient service. The only thing I don’t have is my...
Most of the attention around AI in recent weeks has been on the nervous stock market and on hacks carried out by poorly controlled tools. Here are some more stories from the floodwaters. AI-using college graduates are hitting the...
Cloudy and humid, with a steady stream of goldfinch and Carolina wren chatter. The sun appears through a hole in the clouds and multiple holes in the forest canopy to strike my face, summoning the demon of a sneeze.
After hearing so many stories of life in rural Northern Ontario from my father, you'd think I'd get sick of them. But I don't. He told me a story the other day of growing up in Chapleau, Ont., where his father (my grandfather) worked as...
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to manufacture scarcity (and savory ice-creams or perfumes) as desire engine. Because eating is also a ridiculous activityHi there! I'm probably on a train right now and I will be on a long...
Excited to announce that my long time Emmy-award winning friend Yasmin Elayat and I have received a generous grant from AFAC to adapt THE SOLAR GRID into a videogame: THE SOLAR GRID: VIDEO GAME is a narrative adventure set in a...
We were driving on an unpaved road the other day when a car appeared from the opposite direction. As it passed, we all exclaimed at the cloud of dust it threw up. And then I stole a glance behind us. Sure enough, we were kicking up an...
The good folks at Thermal Master have sent me another Thermal Camera to review. The last one was a big beastie with a huge touchscreen. This one is much smaller and is designed to plug into your phone's USB-C port. The T2 Max is a chunky...
Back a couple of years or so ago, when the evidence of an AI bubble was just starting to accumulate, the standard rebuttal to skeptics broke down into two basic categories. One was that large language models were going to have such a...
Tobacco hornworm in hand while eating a tomato plant (photo from Wikimedia) 5 August 2026 This very large green caterpillar is a tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta). Though its name suggests it feeds only on tobacco, its hosts include many...