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I get so tired of the kind of hyperbole that opens this article. If an untrained person deliberately dives into 28F water mostly they get cold and quickly get out. How do I know th…

I am an Extra class licensee in the US and while I have a lot of respect for the Ham community, deeply entrenched thinking places the future of amateur radio in jeopardy. If we onl…

My father worked for Aerojet General in the early 60's. I have clear memories as a child of hearing thunderous booms while the northern California sky was a cloudless deep blue. I …

You are right. NYPL is about the best public library one could hope for and much is available from home login. City College is one option to look at but I don't think they have a m…

Stunningly in NYC there is not a single medical library that offers journal access open to the general public. The only publicly accessible medical library has been described to me…

Motion smoothing TVs have to please two very different viewers. Motion smoothing is great for for sports. Football and basketball, auto racing are good examples. When a pass is thr…

I observed a total knee replacement surgery where the surgeons were not using their preferred system due to the fact that the patient already had one knee replacement and the docto…

The practical takeaway here underscores the advice in Auerbach's authoritative text Wilderness Medicine. If a person interacts with potentially rabid animals and that interaction r…

Europe's historically much higher petrol prices have created a long standing culture of smaller cars as well as smaller trucks competing for the same space. Massive Suburban's are …

But the population of Manhattan is within a stone's throw of Paris overall and the density is significantly greater in Manhattan. Overall population and density matter as the equat…

Population size matters as does density because there are more people that need to fit in a smaller footprint. The original post states that other cities should employ Copenhagen l…

Amenable means open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled. NYC is none of those things. Yes cars take physical space but I think you underestimate the divers…

Apologies, Wikipedia list km2 first for one and mi2 for the other. I still land in the middle though with Manhattan being 6 and change more dense than Copenhagen. I apologize for m…

Commenting on cycling is always fraught but here are a couple of observations. The population of NYC is 10x that of the city of Copenhagen. The population density of Manhattan is a…

I agree that at this point everything is computational. And you are right that consumers are winning big time. I'm pretty serious about photography and there are far fewer situatio…

The implicit subtitle of this article is: In Smartphone Cameras. The modern smartphone certainly adds computational strength that likely exceeds the image processing sophistication…

It's a bit like academia. The politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low.

I just submitted my vote for N2RJ. ARRL leadership has seemed out of touch for quite some time. They seem more interested in selling wildly over priced books than advancing the int…

You're point is valid but some of the participants are spending 10K+ for Vectronix range finders so they are pretty far down that rabbit hole already. Wind is a dark art because at…

Reloading is a contemplative and exacting pursuit. And single missed powder measure could cause a bullet to lodge in the barrel and the round following could cause an injurious cat…

It is a multi-tool bracelet made by Leatherman called the Tread.

This is true for farmers in many places who buy or lease machinery from companies like John Deere. Using IOT, Deere can tell when a non-OEM part has been installed and they can rem…

There's no crying in H Mart! H Mart is a gift given by heavenly messengers to bring the concept of flavor to the Upper West Side. There are so many people there who would love to h…

Great pick up!!