EVs: EVs might not be the panacea many imply they are
Sadly, keeping your old petrol car may be better than buying an EV, says actor Rowan Atkinson Source: I love electric vehicles – and was an early adopter. But increasingly…
Climate: “Fungi may offer ‘jaw-dropping’ solution to climate change”
Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fu | EurekAlert! Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new…
AI: Rodney Brooks – the problems with AI
“What the large language models are good at is saying what an answer should sound like, which is different from what an answer should be.”—Rodney Brooks, Robust.AI Source: Just Calm…
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.