Cyn has posted a good movie she took on the bridge across Charlottetown harbour showning shorebirds swooping at dusk. She has had some qualms about the proper music to accompany but has done well. It reminds me that a day trip to the beaches at Prince Edward County might be in order to catch some …

Cyn has pointed us all to the story of the century, the harbinger of the slavery to robots to come - scientists say that we will grow our own meat someday soon:  •  “Scientists are trying to develop an industrial process that grows meat tissue from a few cells in a lab – or even at home, in a …

Things come. Things go. McLuhan's classic example of shifts in technology was the demise of the spittoon caused by the development of the typewriter and the related replacement of male clerks with female typists. It may be that the pen is going the same way due to the keyboard:  •  “The decline of …

Without the heavy snow and deep frozen lakes and river, this soft winter has made the signs of spring less eagerly lept upon. But I've seen the robin as well as a rather more dimwitted than usual killdeer and maybe heard the purple finch...or a house finch, p'raps. You know, the one that goes …

With this late winter early srping cold snap I can kind of feel for the Mars rover:  •  “One of the wheels on Nasa's Martian rover Spirit has stopped working. The robotic vehicle is now dragging the wheel as it moves to a slope where it can get maximum sunshine on its solar cells to sustain it …

The First Law of Discomforting states that lay rejection of the scientifically obvious will be directly related to the discomfort it provides to people, systems and investments. Discuss.

Here is my half-baked unified theory essay based largely on idle car driving and long meeting daydreaming. Entire chunks could be rewritten and reversed, deleted even. I am too lazy to edit it any more and I am note convinced myself but, thought I, what the heck. I'm posting it for comment but …

Once again, a study of the obvious is released:  •  “The study found that in young adults, activity in the area of the brain associated with tasks that require concentration (memory, for instance) goes up when called upon, while activity in other regions linked to a resting state (such as thinking …

Hah! The new newest planet is also bigger than the old newest planet:  •  “An icy, rocky world reported last year to be orbiting the Sun in the distant reaches of the Solar System really is bigger than Pluto, scientists say. New observations of the object, which goes by the designation 2003 UB313 …