Energy: Partially wind powered coal carrying cargo ship (?)
Drops typical fuel usage from 500,000 Liters to 475,000 liters – so it can carry coal. What? This is confusing. The world’s first partly wind-powered bulk carrier sailed to the…
Demographics: Key school district in Silicon Valley sees enrollment declines
Guess it is a mystery why this happening: Santa Clara Unified and school districts all over the Country are concerned about enrollment declines. At the Board of Trustees Meeting on…
Demographics: The diversity of languages in the U.S. due to immigration
Contrary to what some Americans seem to believe, the United States historically has been a polyglot nation containing a diverse array of languages. At the time of independence, non-English European…
Demographics: History of Federal immigration laws from 1917 on
Good grief By the 1920’s, nearly one-third of the American population consisted of immigrants and their families. The birthrate among this segment of the population suggested that the proportion of…
Demographics: Both Ukraine and Russia’s populations are in long term collapse
According to the World Bank, Ukraine’s 2020 birth rate was 1.22 children per 1,000 woman, one of the world’s lowest. By comparison, the global average rate was 2.2 and 1.4…
Demographics: Alaska schools see declining enrollment because of declining birth rates
ASD Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt specifically cited the declining community birthrate as one of the factors. ASD CFO Jim Anderson defended the cuts saying that it would also help the district…
Health: Cycling head injuries are a low probability but high-risk event
Head injuries are a low probability but very high-risk event when bicycling or motorcycling or even skateboarding. Much is made of the story about the Attorney who fought Florida helmet…
Automation: Robot gardener illustrates robotic capabilities
Click through to watch the short video: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/interestingengineering_let-this-robot-gardener-do-the-hard-work-activity-6991060844142858240–p-M Automation is rapidly becoming capable of doing many tasks previously thought too difficult or too expensive. This is how we will address…
Business: About 45% of workers are remote or hybrid office/remote
These patterns have leveled out, the researchers found, with about 15% of all Americans working fully remotely, 30% maintaining hybrid schedules and about 55% working in-person full-time. Source: 52% of…
Demographics: Opinion poll finds most think next generations will have worse economic times (and they are wrong)
An opinion poll is a measure of contemporary propaganda success, thus, this is expected after the onslaught of bad news: Americans have as little optimism as they have had at…