Gravitational Wave Dection
Andrew Paul provides information on NASA's new LISA observatory which shall look for gravitational waves.
-DDLabels: Gravitational waves
Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques
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Andrew Paul provides information on NASA's new LISA observatory which shall look for gravitational waves.
-DDLabels: Gravitational waves
Allison Hirschlag reports on a proposal to use Edison's Iron-Nickel battery for renewable energy storage.
-DDLabels: Iron-nickel batteries
David Fickling reports on how China became dominant in solar panels, despite the technology having been developed in the U.S.
-DDLabels: China, Competition, Solar panels, Solar power, U.S. policy
Kara and Nate find and compare both the world's shortest commercial flight and the longest.
-DDLabels: Commercial aviation
Keren Landman suggests that commercial firms are taking over providing emergency care services in many U.S. hospitals.
-DDLabels: Emergency rooms, Hospitals
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has published a short history of Armistice Day (or Veterans Day or Remembrance Day).
-DDLabels: Armistice Day, Military, Remembrance Day, Veterans Day
Brenda Barbose suggests advanced preparation that will provide focus for your public speaking .
-DDLabels: Preparation, Public Speaking
Sarah Todd describes using the phrase 'Yes, and ...' to encourage cooperation in emotional negotiations.
-DDLabels: communication, Improve
Markus Krajewski reveals a 1920's scheme for planned obsolescence amomg light bulb manufacturers.
-DDLabels: Light bulbs, Lighting
Graham Averill recounts staying on an old lighthouse built in international waters.
-DDLabels: Hotels, Lighthouses
Louis-Sébastien Mercier in 1770 crafted Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred .
-DDLabels: Future, Science fiction
Spintronics has developed mechanical analogs to elements of simple electric circuits .
-DDLabels: Direct current, Electricity
Kate Knibbs explains the Internet Archive's legal troubles .
-DDLabels: intellectual property, Internet Archive, Law
Jenna Fletcher reviews the various tests for detecting colon cancer .
-DDLabels: Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy
Bill Chappell reports on California's attempts to rein-in the distribution of single use plastic bags . A 2014 legislative effort to ban flimsy single-use bags resulted in the waste plastic tonnage increasing, as stores thereafter distributed heavier bags. New legislative efforts will promote the distribution of multiple-use bags or paper sacks at the point of sale.
-DDLabels: Microplastics, Plastic bags, Recycling, Single-use bags
The Institute for Energy Research explains electricity transmission .
-DDLabels: Electric power, Electricity transmission
Amit Sandhu et al. have researched markers for osteoarthritis pathology , which should allow physicians to detect the disease before it becomes dehabilitating.
-DDLabels: Biomarkers, Osteoarthritis
Vanessa Van Edwards lists the opening lines of what she dubs 'the to speeches' in Western history.
-DDLabels: Introductions, Public Speaking
Per Lindberg explains this history of the alternative alphabet composed using runic script. He has also analyzed Tolkien's use of runes in The Hobbit and other works.
-DDLabels: Runes
The BBC has decoded the earliest known voice recording .
-DDLabels: Audio technology, Sound recording
Jonny Thomson shares insights from Oliver Burkeman and St. Benedict on time management .
-DDLabels: time management
Joni Sweet warns that some nations impose custom duties when laptops and computer tablets are brought into the country.
-DDLabels: Custom duties
Darren Orf mourns the infrastructure concerns (bridges, roads) of the United States.
-DDLabels: Infrastructure, United States
Liz Kruesi reports on some unresolved questions about the cosmic exansion rate .
-DDLabels: Astronomy, Universe expansion
Meredith Dietz suggests that digital banks may lack some FDIC insurance protections of traditional saving institutions.
-DDKelsey Piper offers tips for identifying when essays have been written by ChatGPT .
-DDLabels: academic writing, ChatGPT
Amanda Blum shares how she allows her tomatoes to ripen after the close of the outdoor growing season.
-DDLabels: Harvesting, Tomatoes
Melanie Curtin suggests a dialog tool which can reignite your love for your partner .
-DDLabels: Counseling, Love, Romance
Chris Stokel-Walker applauds the Internet Archive for saving select web pages after they disappear from their original web server.
-DDLabels: document preservation, Internet Archive
Chloe Gray addresses hip pain that impairs walking. On the same topic, Priyankaa Joshi suggests stretching regimes which may prevent such pain.
-DDAlina Selyukh examines reports of "greedflation ." "Greedflation" is a term describing when grocery merchants raise prices to increase their profits. Alina finds that many of the price increases were directly or indirectly a result of the pandemic, and that prices show signs of being reined-in by consumer pushback and competitive forces.
-DDChristian Cawley provides detailed direction for harvesting data from undamaged old hard disks . These methods include:
Labels: Data access, Disk drives
Ed Bott offers options if your Windows 10 PC cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 when support for Windows 11 ends October, 2025 .
-DD.Labels: windows 10, Windows 11
Austin Meadows and Anis Rehman review the effects of oversleeping .
-DDLabels: Health, Sleep, Sleep deprivation
Lance Whitney offers suggestions to improve mobile phone security .
-DDLabels: mobile phones, security, Spyware
Chris Baraniuk recounts how electricity now powers some of the largest earthmovers and other large machines.
-DDLauren Leffer shares the research of Shimpei Ishiyama as to why humans are ticklish . This is a social bonding behaviour observed in humans and a few other social mammals.
-DDLabels: Social bonding, Tickling
Discover Magazine's Physics ArXiv Blog discusses the contemplations of Jieyu Zheng and Markus Meister about how the brain filters-out sensory information .
-DDThe U.S. Enironmental Protection Agency offers advice on electronics recycling .
-DDLabels: Electronics, Metals, Recycling
ISeeCars has created a list of the most durable vehicles available in the U.S. market .
-DDLabels: Vehicles
Pocket has curated a list of articles on the terrorist attacks September 11, 2001 .
-DDLabels: Remembrance, September 11 2021
Jonny Thomson explores the ethics of choosing of confrontation and quietism when a stressful discussion topic is raised.
-DDLabels: Confrontation, Silence
Melanie McReynolds pinpoints metabolic problems associated with human aging .
-DDLabels: Aging, Metabolism
Bedassa Tadesse writes about battling gender inequality in third-world nations with
needed financial and technical support.
Best practices include:
Labels: Development aid, education, gender bias, Women
Steve Wick reports that the American Chestnut is making a comeback after a blight killed about four billion trees. More information is available from the American Chestnut Foundation.
-DDLabels: American Chestnut, Genetic engineering
Ross Pomeroy summarizes the research of Jennifer Holland, an expert in how dogs communicate with humans .
-DDLabels: Animal communication, communication, Dogs
Darren Orf explains that global warming was the cause of the Permian Mass Extinction .
-DDLabels: Permian Extinction