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The research described was done at Stanford by Profs Eric Pop and Krishna Saraswat. Paper in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7096

I disagree with your point #2 as it is written. You want to keep you battery close to the temperature at which it is rated. Cycling below that also harms batteries and shortens the…

Carved from antlers. What tool would you use to make such clean, deep, small, circular features such as the pips and eyes on the figurine?

Incredibly, this site is still being updated and added to. The site owner as been at it for over 20 years. If you are in California or the US, enter your town's name in the search …

One reproduces the sky as seen from Earth (planets, stars, galaxies, etc), while the other is a model of the solar system. The Zeiss device will let you see the sky as it is at dif…

Yes I do, all the time. Your post and the comments it elicited reminded me of the excerpt from Adam Smith's Weath Of Nations about the Woolen Coat. It is given as an example of wha…

OK, I see. I still find that surprising because I would imagine having the pipette hanging from your mouth doesn't allow ou to really see what is going on if you are really trying …

I am surprised there is on mention of rubber bulbs. If the main concern is safety, as the beginning of the article seems to imply, the rubber bulb would have been enough of a solut…

Can you elaborate: why are the rings not visible on that image? Is it because they are outside the frame, or too faint, or don't appear in the visible spectrum? Something else?

I don't quite believe the dice roll metaphor tells the whole story. It is not all or nothing, it is not how it is done. On that subject, I recommend reading the book by Ed Viesturs…

Apple, software side. I use Apple Notes on my macbook, phone and windows machine through the browser. One day, an important (to me) functionality had stopped working in the browser…

Melville's got your back: - "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." - "To be s…

On this page you can select "State" (in Area Type) to zoom in on California. Compare this March 7 2023 to March 8 2022 and March 9 2021 to see the effect of the recent rains on the…

For sure. I was just bringing numbers to support the >25% number claimed higher, and that it is not a matter of visibility. I frequently find people seem to think the homeless are …

You bring up visibility of the homeless, that is one thing, but it is besides parent's point. There are government statistics on the homeless population and California has a huge s…

Compares caffeine contents in filter vs espresso, instant coffee, light roast vs dark roast, function of time. Uses Lightell caffeine analyzer (looks like the CA-700)

Interestingly, that German phrase also has its application in French: the word Vasistas [1], used to refer to roof windows. Ended up completely different than both German and Hunga…

On the very practical side: - Separate clearly preparation time from execution time. Prepare your pitch. Prepare a nice long list of targets with the relevant information (why you …