If you’re a longtime Scientific American reader, or just a geek of a certain age, you’ll remember Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” puzzle column.… Read the rest “ChatGPT flunks Martin Gardner’s old brainteasers.”
This is an illustration of a public waterwork taken from the pages of A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, hydrodynamics, and practical… Read the rest “Science Art: Intercepting Well, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by R.S. Bross, 1882.”
New York Times rewrites human prehistory with a genetic study that replaces the tree of life – a diagram of human origins with one trunk growing out of one spot in the continent before… Read the rest “Out of Africa, yes, but all over Africa and not all at once.”
SONG: “In the Years Before A/C”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: National Park Service, 1 May 2023, “National Park archeologists find remains of an underwater hospital and… Read the rest “SONG: In the Years Before A/C”
I have rough drafts of music tracks and written lyrics… but have not yet brought the two together. More soon, along with a penitential cover.
These are painted buntings, “1.2.3. males in different states of plumage and 4. female” in the branches of a chickasaw wild plum, as displayed in The birds of America : from … Read the rest “Science Art: Painted Bunting, by John James Audubon, 1841”
They used to be above water, but the National Park Service reports that divers surveying a sunken island off Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas have found the ruins of a quarantine hospital and… Read the rest “Sunken cemetery, hospital found off the Dry Tortugas.”
The Intercept has found that Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, has been collecting information on abortion protests for federal law enforcement by paying close… Read the rest “U.S. Marshals use Twitter partner to scope out abortion-rights protestors.”
Security Magazine evaluates (using Imperva’s Bad Bot Report) just how much internet traffic comes from humans, and how much is automatically generated machines. The latest results… Read the rest “The internet isn’t all bots. It’s about *half* bots.”
Do two sampans make a catamaran? Looks like they did for this Chinese fisherman at the dawn of the last century, angling on the river near Shanghai.
This image came from Pol Korrigan, but I … Read the rest “Science Art: Causerie sur la Peche Fluviale en Chine, 1909.”
Science News reports on new discoveries shedding light on how prehistoric mammals grew so dang big, evolutionarily, once the dinosaurs cleared out:
… Read the rest “Big ol’ brontotheres.”Brontotheres were among the first
Vice‘s Motherboard covers what is probably the first-ever AI-related arrest, by Chinese officials who accuse a man of using the software to mass-produce fake news:
… Read the rest “China makes first ChatGPT arrest – for manufacturing fake news.”The man, who
Two machines, or parts of machines. These are a “Four-Plunger Valve” and “A starter valve” from The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements,… Read the rest “Science Art: The Engineer’s Sketch-Book, 1508 & 1509.”
Ars Technica gets a first glimpse at the language of cephalopods, with the discovery that each octopus (which can change the pattern of its skin at will) has its own unique pattern of stripes… Read the rest “An octopus will say its name in stripes.”
NPR reports on NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory finding a way to keep the plucky space probe going in the outer limits of the solar system for another few years by tapping some reserve… Read the rest “Voyager 2 gets a slight reprieve – until 2026, at least.”
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