Vint Cerf receives 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor
Vint Cerf is an awesome individual: For the past five decades, Cerf, now 79, has been perfecting, extending, and evangelizing the Internet. It is for this—his contributions in cocreating the…
Business: Employers are manipulating Glassdoor revies
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond (pragmaticengineer.com) Glassdoor is a website where employees (current and former) rate their employer. Employers have figured out how to…
Believable: “47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022 | Security Magazine”
A new report reveals that in 2022, 47.4% of all internet traffic came from bots, a 5.1% increase over the previous year. Source: 47% of all internet traffic came from…
Climate: Great Salt Lake’s shrinkage not due to climate change
Today, as much as two-thirds of the potential river inflow never reaches the lake. Consequently, the lake is shrinking. However, it is not climate change, but human water use that’s…
EVs: The US Charging network does not work well
1 in 5 EV drivers said they’ve been unable to charge at a charging station because it was not working. Reliability is a huge issue and its not yet solved.…
Demographics: School district closing 16 elementary schools now planning for middle school closures
Source: Jeffco middle school data help explain coming school closure decisions – Chalkbeat Colorado Over the past 20 years, the school age population in the district has declined by about…
EVs: What happens to one’s older gas car when replacing it with an EV?
Many of older used vehicles are now shipped to other countries. Buying an EV doesn't really reduce carbon emissions; it mostly moves them somewhere else.
Demographics: The demographics of China and India
If you are interested in population demographic, this report is a good summary of issues facing China and India, which long ago chose completely different paths forward to deal with…
Demographics: What happens to Ukraine’s future population?
In 2020, Ukraine’s fertility rate was about 1.4, well below replacement level. Russia’s war on Ukraine has caused perhaps 5 million people, mostly women and children, to flea the country.…
Climate Follow up: A half century of climate apocalypse headlines that turned out to be wrong
Fascinating – take a look: 50 years of predictions that the climate apocalypse is nigh 2000: “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”: …within a few years winter…