Interesting article, "Self-Driving Cars Aren't Nearly a Solved Problem." I think it's too pessimistic but It does point out how hard a problem this is.
Still uploading chapters of The Voice From the Darkness at Royal Road.
Rich tomb of a Tang Dynasty noblewoman.
Wikkipedia is 25 Years Old. Long my it live!
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt plans to personally fund four new space telescopes, incluidng one that is supposed to replace the Hubble. Schmidt is betting that new satellite and launch technologies will make this much cheaper than it was in the 90s.
Byzantine monastery discovered in the Egyptian desert.
Interview with Sarah Kempton, who narrates The Raven and the Crown, largely about her improv work with a troop called "Crime Scene Improvisation" but also her voice acting, 13-minute video.
Tombs and a shrine to Hercules found in Roman suburb (History Blog, Yahoo)
Dara Massicot on the how the Russian military is learning from the war and adapting to changes. But, she notes, these changes are uneven and many units are still run in the old Soviet style, 53-minute video.
John le Carré in our time, focusing on a new stage production of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.
Major government study finds no evidence that "Havana syndrome" was caused by an energy weapon attack. One participant said that after months of careful study "there was nothing." Hysteria is a real thing and people need to own up to this. Serge Schmemann's excellent account of his own experience in Soviet Moscow seems to be gone from the NY Times, but anyway he developed similar symptoms from being constantly stalked by the KGB, no energy weapons involved.
Sequencing the DNA from a chunk of Woolly Rhinocerous found in a wolf pup's stomach, scientists find no evidence of genetic decline (= small population) just a few centuries before its extinction. Since there had long been humans in Siberia, this suggests the end of the Ice Age was the main cause. But I still suspect humans had a big part, like, maybe the extreme cold of Ice Age Siberia kept human numbers down and made their hunting less effective, so the rhinoceros was done in by climate change and a surge of humans into the warming region. (NY Times, Phys.org, original paper,)
Henry VII's Tudor trade war.
You can reserve a place in the first lunar hotel, projected for the 2030s.
Why Trump's tariffs are causing American manufacturing to decline (Twitter/X)
Rent control in New York City.
Seizing Greenland might be the least popular idea in Amerian history.
What are all those "little red dots" in space?
The California weirdo who dubbed himself the "last intellectual."
For the curious, Picasso's women. But I am sick of people saying that these women and others in their situations have been "ignored;" I, without ever taking much interest in the subject, have managed to learn a great deal about them, since people write and talk about them all the time.
Writers and their day jobs. Something new for me to daydream about, an article in which "John Bedell, cultural resources professional" is mentioned alongside "Joseph Heller, exterminator."
This week's music is folk singer Sarah Jarosz: Tell Me True, Run Away, Dark Road, and one with I'm With Her, Send my Love (to Your New Lover)
1 comment:
I've completely ignored Picasso's women because I couldn't care less. I don't get the obsession with biographical information about artists. It just makes me think the people that talk about it really don't care about the art and just like dishing dirt. It's just highbrow TMZ.
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