The Curious Engineer

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2017–2024

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December 2024

  1. Are Cows Going Extinct?
  2. An Electrified Universe
  3. Fiber Internet
  4. This Week’s Book Review - Mountain of Fire
  5. Weekly Space Report: Starship Block 2 Deep Dive
  6. Is bitcoin an early indicator of a Crack up Boom?
  7. Public Policy, Accountability and Murder
  8. Is It Misinformation or Disinformation?
  9. New Glenn First Flight 12/26/2024?
  10. Hometown: Scranton, revert 'Biden Expy' name, calling it a 'scar' following Kids-4-Cash pardon makes national news
  11. Texas Raiders B-17 Bell P-63 Midair Collision Over Dallas TX 11-12-22
  12. This Week’s Book Review - Dangers and Difficulties
  13. Weekly Space Report: Starship Licensed for TF7+
  14. Physics -- Almost Finished ... or Barely Begun?
  15. Viktor Orbán on Ukraine, Demography, Economics, and the Post-West
  16. Is China Losing the Plot?
  17. United Healthcare CEO killer nailed
  18. “Regulate Us!”—U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Artificial Intelligence
  19. Plastic safety: how to approach costs and benefits
  20. What happened in Syria?
  21. Civilizational Confidence
  22. This Week’s Book Review - Bandit Heaven
  23. Crazy Years - Why?
  24. Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 7 Booster and Ship are Ready?
  25. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at New Hampshire Porcfest 2023
  26. This Week’s Book Review - Love at the Five and Dime
  27. Principled discussion of ASI safety by Marcus Hutter
  28. Weekly Space Report: Jared Isaacman for the Win!
  29. A Resolution for 2024
  30. Biden pardons Biden
  31. darned cable company "bots"... ( just venting, sorry )
  32. Inventions and attempted inventions
  33. This Week’s Book Review - 1919: The Romanov Rising
  34. Life Among the Natives - Chinese Edition

November 2024

  1. Weekly Space Report: Dragonfly on Falcon Heavy!
  2. Nature is Healing
  3. Dash cam recommendation
  4. Polymarket prediction just swung massively pro-Trump
  5. Weekly Space Report: Caught!
  6. U.S. House of Representatives “Intelligence” Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
  7. This Week’s Book Review - The Clock in the Sun
  8. Report From Pennsylvania - American Spectator
  9. Unnecessariat - a term you should know
  10. Weekly Space Report: No Catch on Starship TF6
  11. My Agenda For D. O. G. E.
  12. Election Day 2024
  13. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Sixth Flight Test
  14. This Week's Book Review - The Real Bogie and Bacall
  15. NPR - and what it was intended to be
  16. The World Reserve Currency Must Flow
  17. Weekly Space Report: Final Prep for Starship TF6
  18. 2024 French National Assembly Election
  19. Feminism -- 1800s Style
  20. Futurama-Style “Suicide Booth” Approved for Use in Switzerland
  21. Special Persecutor Appointed!
  22. When Your Government Doesn’t Hate You
  23. Kamu San -- What's Going On?
  24. The case of the missing voters
  25. This Week’s Book Review - Steel Lobsters
  26. Trump's Pirate Ship Needs My 1980s Usenet Tech Reforms
  27. An Earthen Vessel
  28. Weekly Space Report: Starship TF6 on Nov 18!
  29. Geometry-Informed Neural Networks
  30. Against -isms
  31. Election Betting Odds 2024
  32. How to Wind Down a Proxy War?
  33. How to Actually Drain the Swamp
  34. Psychiatric Treatment of the Victims
  35. How a Republic Dies
  36. Remember, remember the fifth of November!
  37. Prediction Markets on US Elections
  38. Early voting results
  39. Polymarket Top Holders for Trump and Kamala
  40. A Formula for the Nth Prime Number
  41. This Week’s Book Review - Light Up the Night
  42. Weekly Space Report: Starship TF6 Speculation

October 2024

  1. Newton-Raphson Convergence of 5 Physical Constants
  2. An Election Prognostication
  3. The Media Lie About Everything
  4. This Week’s Book Review - Landmark Maps of Texas
  5. An Unasked Question Concerning Abortion
  6. This Is Progress? LED Light Fixtures without Replaceable Bulbs
  7. Weekly Space Report: TF5 Booster Analysis
  8. These Key Swing States Don’t Count Mail Ballots In Advance—Results May Take Days
  9. Nation: Where the Polls Went Wrong
  10. The Pig, the Snake, and the Pigeon
  11. Mapping the cosmos
  12. Scaring the Epistemology Out of Me
  13. SpaceX Starship Fifth Flight Test
  14. This Week’s Book Review - Moguls
  15. “Where are now the warring kings?”
  16. Advice or opinion needed
  17. Diverging Views
  18. Pumped Storage - The Taum Sauk Dam Failure
  19. Yes but HOW did they DO it?
  20. Thread too long?
  21. This Week’s Book Review - Reentry
  22. Good Shepherd?
  23. A Zen-like Calm
  24. Appalachia wishes it were the Ukraine
  25. Weekly Space Report: Future Missions Reviews, Previews, & Speculation
  26. Weekly Space Report: Has The FAA Caved?
  27. We Are in Need of Renaissance People › American Greatness
  28. Another Japanese Surprise
  29. New Addition to my List of Go-To Writers of Worldview
  30. This Week’s Book Review - Rebel
  31. Weekly Space Report: Vulcan Fireworks!
  32. United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur Cert-2 Launch
  33. “The Effects of Immigration in Denmark”

September 2024

  1. Weekly Space Report: Reusable Competition for SpaceX
  2. This Week’s Book Review - Into Unknown Skies
  3. “Here’s why:” The Point at Which You HAVE to Know
  4. Indiana Jones and the Destruction of Legacy
  5. The future of nuclear energy
  6. Why Trump should End the Fed on Day One
  7. Federal Rent Price controls: a vision
  8. Now this is funny!
  9. Anecdotes & Encounters
  10. A Japanese Surprise
  11. Doctor, my EYES!
  12. This Week’s Book Review - The Barber, The Astronaut, and The Golf Ball
  13. Aerial Refueling Super-Thread
  14. FBI seized $86 million from people not suspected of any crime. A federal...
  15. Weekly Space Report: Star Hopper Display Refurb
  16. A Pointless Whine
  17. England's Continuing Slide to the Bottom
  18. What, Exactly, is Hateful?
  19. Somewhat personal, But...
  20. Weekly Space Report: Polaris Dawn flies!
  21. This Week’s Book Review - Farm to Freedom
  22. They're Eating The Dogs. They're Eating The Cats. They're Eating The Pets Of The People Who Live There.
  23. In Praise of (Some) Anime
  24. “Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models”
  25. Jared Isaacman on the Polaris Missions
  26. nationalpublicdata.com breached
  27. Here Is Your “Absolute Zero” Future, Serf
  28. Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer
  29. A Brief History of The Delegate Network and Its Prospects
  30. This Week’s Book Review - To Turn The Tide
  31. Can Russian Airliners Rescue Russian Civil Aviation?
  32. Author Lionel Shriver
  33. Why people invert Truth
  34. AGI Prophet: FiveThirtyNine!!!
  35. Weekly Space Report: Starliner comes home
  36. Dubai had the world's second busiest airport in 2023
  37. Art, museums, collections
  38. Stop the next pandemic - Permanent Silver Invisible Ink Disinfectant
  39. This Week’s Book Review - The Strategists
  40. World GDP in One Chart
  41. Terrifying Afghan Genius-King: Abdur Rahman
  42. Recounting the End of Our Constitutional Republic

August 2024

  1. Weekly Space Report: Rare Falcon9 Booster failure
  2. A Perspective on Abortion From Today
  3. The hagiography of Kamala Harris Has Begun
  4. RIP F9 Booster 1062 2020-2024
  5. Making deals with terrorists...
  6. Meanwhile, in Catalonia ...
  7. Straws in the International Wind(s)
  8. 2024 Democratic National Convention Open Thread
  9. This Week’s Book Review - Inventors From the Early 1900s to the Mid-1900s
  10. Weekly Space Report: Spectacular RUD by Rocket Factory Augsburg
  11. European Electric Grid Roadmap
  12. Supreme Court Squashes the Scheme of Affirmative Action in Scholarly Selections -- 'Not a normal court', Biden says
  13. Health in the Western World
  14. A Tiny Fraction of our Brainpower
  15. Fighter Jet Training with the Polaris Dawn Crew
  16. NATO's Broken Political System
  17. Why the US Push on Computer Chips will Fail
  18. Comparing United Launch Alliance's Vulcan to the Competition
  19. Weekly Space Report: Mostly SpaceX
  20. Why is Trump backing Cryptocurrency?
  21. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Collisions Open Thread
  22. “Automotive as a Service”—Car Features by Subscription
  23. Biden Impeachment
  24. What Do We Really Know About Taiwan?
  25. This Week’s Book Review - The Incorruptibles
  26. From Maxwell's Equations and Hamilton's Quaternions to Vector Calculus
  27. Economic Warfare
  28. Why Our Democracy Does Not Work
  29. Elon, Trump on X space
  30. Seymour Hersh: “How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline”
  31. A Weekend Dose of the Dismal
  32. Two Girls for Every Boy
  33. This Week’s Book Review - Interstellar Medic: The Long Run
  34. X Corp. v. World Federation of Advertisers
  35. Weekly Space Report: Ready for TF5!
  36. J.D. Vance is Trump's VP pick
  37. Democrat vs Republican Tech Policy
  38. CFM RISE Aviation Engine—Isn't It Just a Turboprop?
  39. The Vicar of Dibley Condemns Sunday Riots!
  40. The Law of Diminishing Returns
  41. This Week’s Book Review - Every Spy a Traitor
  42. Rotting Alone: A HowTo Guide To Better Cope With White Genocide Corpses?
  43. Jdougan
  44. Could the Past Once More Be Prologue?

July 2024

  1. Draining the Swamp might be easier than people think
  2. New disease is developing ....
  3. How stupid is Kamala?
  4. Open Source and Governments
  5. Has Nial Ferguson Left the Reservation?
  6. This Week’s Book Review - Silk
  7. Communicating over Interstellar Distances
  8. A Barrier to Reusable Spacecraft?
  9. Olympic Offense to Christians
  10. Modern Day Miracle
  11. Weekly Space Report: Tower Two!
  12. Semi-Automated "Proof Of Concept" Movie Production Of Novels Is In The Offing
  13. Biden makes it official
  14. What Can We Learn About China from Chinese TV?
  15. Tesla “Full Self-Driving” [V12.5]
  16. Oval Office speech
  17. Why Solid State Batteries are Finally Here \ stacker news ~tech
  18. Tailstrikes—What They Are and How to Avoid Them
  19. “This was—er, is—a man!”
  20. The Story Of How The CIA Stole & Returned A Soviet Spacecraft Before Being Noticed
  21. Janet Napolitano to investigate Secret Service failures
  22. Stochastic Terrorism and Trump Assassination Attempt
  23. Joe Scarborough Memorial Yangtze Swim Club and DPRK Golf Channel
  24. This Week’s Book Review - Rings of Fire
  25. Weekly Space Report: Cryo Propellant Challenges
  26. Cosmism and how Soviets took advantage of scientific idealists
  27. The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian
  28. Jason Jorjani: God, Aliens & the Truth Behind All World Religions
  29. Pennsylvania mine tour
  30. This Week’s Book Review - Skies of Thunder
  31. Today’s cover of the New York…
  32. Alternative materials to plastic?
  33. Working title (insurance)
  34. A Rare Falcon-9 Second Stage Failure on Starlink Group 9-3 Launch from Vandenberg AFB
  35. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Brezhnev, Our Pravda, Our Soviet Union
  36. Chongqing Hot Pot
  37. Mapping Higher Education
  38. The Subjective Optimization of Time
  39. Ariane 62 Maiden Flight
  40. "I can't afford it': South Florida condo owners hit with 6-figure assessments due to new Florida law
  41. New American Convolution
  42. On the weaponisation of the financial system
  43. Restoring a Vintage Sanyo ICC-0082 Calculator
  44. This Week’s Book Review - Dark Day, Bright Hour
  45. Ranching Camels for Milk and Meat in the Emirates
  46. Weekly Space Report: Tower Two ready to rise!
  47. Firearms for Home Defense
  48. We, 1984, and the Bible
  49. The Great Flattening
  50. “Monday Monday: can’t trust that day..”,
  51. How Javier Milei Slashed Argentina’s Inflation by 95%
  52. Reverse Engineering the Antikythera Mechanism
  53. Spiraling Down to Disaster
  54. The Old NASA “Space Pen” Story
  55. Douglas Murray on YouTube
  56. Citizen Cain: Fugitive from Justice or Sophisticated Urbanite?
  57. SCOTUS Overturns 'Chevron Deference' In Massive Blow To 'Administrative State'
  58. Weekly Space Report: Booster catch testing!
  59. Looking into the 3D structure of clouds
  60. How to Cool a Can of Pop

June 2024

  1. Absurd Trolley Problems
  2. This Week’s Book Review - Prevailing Wind
  3. Do you have a best friend?
  4. Thinking About God
  5. 10 greatest hits from WikiLeaks
  6. June 27, 2024 US Presidential Debate Live Blog
  7. Reimagining the Right
  8. Weaker Than The Old Man
  9. Here's Your Sustainable Life, Serf
  10. SpaceX Falcon Heavy GOES-U Launch
  11. Politicians -- A People Problem?
  12. Weekly Space Report: Feverish prep for TF5, more Boeing Woeing
  13. Artificial Intelligence and the Leisure Society
  14. Tesla “Full Self-Driving” Beta [V12.4.1]
  15. Perseverance Rover Images Solar Eclipse by Phobos on Mars
  16. Paramount Network - a Microcosm of the US State
  17. Weekly Space Report: No Mishap on Starship TF4!
  18. This Week’s Book Review - The Demon of Unrest
  19. Washington Post article - the cancer spike is caused by covid, not the vaxx \...
  20. Francois Chollet - LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution
  21. Fed Court of Appeals Rules mRNA are NOT Vaccines Under Traditional Definitions...
  22. This Week’s Book Review - The Eccentrics
  23. Legal advice for Trump from Yale Law professor
  24. A Lawyer Has a Very Bad Day
  25. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) | Kagi's Docs
  26. How D-Day unfolded, hour by hour
  27. Weekly Space Report: StarshipTF4 Delivers its Payload!
  28. SpaceX Starship Fourth Flight Test
  29. A Scientist Discovers the Climate Scam
  30. another anniversary : Tien An Men
  31. NASA Veteran’s Propellantless Propulsion Drive That Physics Says Shouldn’t Work Just Produced Enough Thrust to Overcome Earth’s Gravity
  32. News That Does Not Get Reported
  33. Political Corruption of the Medical Establishment. Worse than you may think.
  34. Squatted Upon in America
  35. “Vorrei piangere ma non posso..
  36. Japan confirms first currency intervention since 2022 with $62 billion in...
  37. Policy Toward Russia: Absence of Reason, Reciprocity or Principle. Can We Yet Ally for Mutual Survival?
  38. Drilling a triangular hole
  39. Reasons for Optimism ... or Pessimism
  40. This Week’s Book Review - Written in Water
  41. Cicadas and their 'music'
  42. "He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance".
  43. Genesis of Blockchain
  44. Illusion of financial privacy
  45. "Inapposite" - In Life and Death
  46. Incandescent Light Bulb Lifetime—Cartel Conspiracy or Engineering Sweet Spot?
  47. Lighting my flag
  48. Weekly Space Report: Signs the FAA will come through?
  49. The Hill The 19th Amendment Sent Our Girls To Die On

May 2024

  1. They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer
  2. WWE Election
  3. WOWIE - factories programmable like PCs to make anything
  4. Robin Hanson on Grabby Aliens
  5. Air-Dropping Mediterranean Fruit Flies Over California
  6. From 1955: “Atomic Tests in Nevada”
  7. Scholastic Aptitude Test, the Coin Rotation Paradox, and Sidereal Time
  8. As MLB changes its records, Josh Gibson replaces Ty Cobb as all-time batting...
  9. Reinventing and Understanding the Circular Slide Rule with a Rubber Band
  10. Mann vs Steyn
  11. Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth - not crazy, but definitely takes years
  12. How American Agriculture Went Wrong
  13. Farage: Growing Number of Muslims 'Loathe' British Values
  14. Druid Heights, Muir Woods
  15. Kevin Mitnick dies at 59
  16. The Veil of Democracy — Money and State
  17. Thoughts on the Rising of the Moon
  18. Weekly Space Report: TF4 as early as June 5!
  19. These Are The Good Old Days
  20. How U.S. oil production reached an all-time high in 2023
  21. https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/swing-states-home-affordability-election/
  22. Struldbrugg
  23. If you have nothing else to do this summer …
  24. Teleo and Tomahawk Construction: One Operator Controls Three Trucks Remotely and Autonomously
  25. The 2020s could be the best decade ever for America's housing market
  26. Apple advertising
  27. Rocket Lab “Ready, Aim, PREFIRE” Launch
  28. Blue Origin New Shepard 25
  29. That time Switzerland colonized West Virginia
  30. This Week’s Book Review - The Infernal Machine
  31. Decline and Fall
  32. Weekly Space Report: TF4 FAA comment, ULA woes, Solar Storms
  33. Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis
  34. Marinchip software preserved, including emulator
  35. I have to start a "Diary"...
  36. AstraZeneca Pulls COVID Vaccine After Admitting Rare Side Effect
  37. This Week’s Book Review - Beyond the Ranges
  38. Make It Sew—the Inventors and Inventions behind the Sewing Machine
  39. Has the Mystery of “Aurora Sounds” Been Solved?
  40. Charles Murray Releasing Open Source Databases for Social Science Research
  41. Weekly Space Report: HLS Updates and more
  42. Intel Developing Custom ASICs for Bitcoin Mining
  43. So the West thinks we can compete?
  44. Bitcoin “Taproot” Soft Fork Activated
  45. In Stunning Speech, Peter Thiel Blasts Buffett, Dimon, & Fink As "Finance Gerontocracy"; Sees Bitcoin Rising 100-Fold
  46. The End of Old Left-wing Mythologies
  47. Stem cell injections—should I?
  48. This Week’s Book Review - Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
  49. As Seen on TV
  50. The Work of Cain
  51. Yugoslav Space Program
  52. Matt Taibbi Uncensored: Finance Nothing More Than A 'Street Scam' \ stacker...
  53. Trump campaign sues Nevada for accepting mail ballots that trickle in after...
  54. Weekly Space Report: Anticipation Builds!
  55. Japanese Corp Says DOJ Requested a Delay on Purchase of U.S. Steel, Insists...
  56. Chirography
  57. Re-Reading "Slouching Towards Gomorrah"
  58. The Complexity of Human Civilization
  59. Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died
  60. Word Recognition by Men and Women
  61. SpaceX - Falcon 9 – Maxar 1 WorldView Legion 1&2 Launch
  62. From the Spanish Civil War to Spring 2024
  63. A Mysterious Powerful Emotion - Induced by a Song

April 2024

  1. This Week’s Book Review - Migration Mysteries
  2. SpaceX to dispose of B1060 on its 20th flight
  3. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-54 Launch
  4. Weekly Space Report: Why are we doing this?
  5. Murphy’s Second Law – Video Edition
  6. Tucker Carlson on How the CIA Set-up Richard Nixon
  7. Tilting At the Gigantic Dwarf: Akaike Information Criterion
  8. Disparate Impact: more stupidity to accommodate the usual suspects
  9. MegaPortraits: Megapixel Moving Image Deep Fakes
  10. John Walker (1949 - 2024)
  11. Alvin Bragg vs Trump
  12. Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
  13. NASA's Voyager Visualisations and the Origins of Computer-Generated Imagery
  14. Why I Quit Gab
  15. Rocket Lab “Beginning Of The Swarm (ACS3 & NeonSat-1)” Launch
  16. This Week’s Book Review - Air Force Disappointments, Mistakes, and Failures
  17. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-53 Launch
  18. Weekly Space Report: Almost quiet by recent standards
  19. Iran’s Oil Exports Climb to the Highest Level in 6 Years | OilPrice.com
  20. Six Policies Economists Love (And Politicians Hate)
  21. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-52 Launch
  22. Biden to Triple Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Imports from China
  23. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-april-13-2024/
  24. Trump, please explain 2020!
  25. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-51 Launch
  26. Physics and Beyond—A Conversation with Jack Sarfatti
  27. Protecting your property
  28. steve-bannon-once-suggested-only-property-owners-should-vote
  29. Tesla Investor Day 2024?
  30. New Material Could Drastically Increase the Efficiency of Solar Panels \...
  31. This Week’s Book Review - Seeing Red
  32. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX and Skyshow and Soyuz and an Eclipse, Oh My!
  33. Roscosmos - Angara A5 Test Flight
  34. SpaceX USSF-62 WSF-M1 Launch
  35. Earthquake in NJ
  36. Mr. Market
  37. How to design our future
  38. Swiss right-wing party hands in initiative to limit immigration - SWI...
  39. Spacex Bandwagon-1 Launch
  40. ULA - Delta IV Heavy NROL-70 Launch
  41. The Civil War (1990) TV Series by Ken Burns
  42. Sabine Hossenfelder blows the whistle on Academia
  43. This Week’s Book Review - A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
  44. Some Pebbles Start Avalanches – Others Do not
  45. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX and more SpaceX, and an Eclipse
  46. 14.5 billion miles and 46 years later.. A software patch
  47. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX, ULA, Soyuz, JAXA, and NASA
  48. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-47 Launch
  49. SpaceX Starlink Group 8-1 Launch
  50. NASA Spacesuit Pressure Test (I Swam With Astronauts Underwater) - Smarter Every Day 296
  51. The Coming De-Centralization
  52. xz backdoor & social engineering in the open source community
  53. Drowning Out the “Sound of Freedom”
  54. Are “Guilty Pleasures” still Pleasures If They Aren’t Guilty?

March 2024

  1. This Week’s Book Review - Space Oddities
  2. Does the Language You Speak Affect What You Can Think?
  3. SpaceX Eutelsat 36D Launch
  4. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-45 Launch
  5. Yet more on the Three Body Problem
  6. "Red Flag" Laws
  7. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-18 Launch
  8. Daniel Kahneman, renowned psychologist and Nobel prize winner, dies at 90
  9. Trump Says He Has $500 Million Cash as Bond Deadline Looms
  10. How to React During a Mass Shooting
  11. US and States' 3/2024 Antitrust Suit v. Apple
  12. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-46 Launch
  13. This Week’s Book Review - Little Hatchet
  14. Media Miss by the Left: Migrants Overpower Texas National Guard, Tear Down...
  15. Weekly Space Report: Starship Roundup and more
  16. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-42 Launch
  17. Neuralink—Brain-Computer Interface
  18. Soyuz MS-25 Launch
  19. Trump can't secure $454 million appeal bond in New York fraud case, his...
  20. The Conscription Conundrum for Feminism
  21. SpaceX Cargo Dragon CRS-2 SpX-30 International Space Station Resupply Flight
  22. The Challenge of Immigration: A Radical Solution
  23. Avi Loeb: “Discovery of Spherules of Likely Extrasolar Composition”
  24. 1988 Willie Horton
  25. Rocket Lab “Live and Let Fly” Launch
  26. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-16 Launch
  27. SpaceX Starship Third Flight Test
  28. Love in the Time of Cancer - part II
  29. This Week’s Book Review - What Price Victory?
  30. Love in the Time of Cancer part I
  31. Meanwhile, in Africa ...
  32. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX and RocketLab
  33. Strong Recommendation: "The Real Anthony Fauci" Documentary
  34. Tesla “Full Self-Driving” Beta [V12.3]
  35. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-44 Launch
  36. A New Math!
  37. Toaster Tech
  38. RESTRICT Act
  39. The ITER Tritium Plant
  40. An Intravenous Injection of Gloom & Doom
  41. Space One KAIROS | Maiden Flight
  42. SpaceX Crew-7 Launch
  43. This Week’s Book Review - The War of the Roses
  44. What do Women Want?
  45. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX and more SpaceX
  46. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-43 Launch
  47. Rocket Lab “Owl Night Long” Launch
  48. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-17 Launch
  49. 81 year old politicians in action
  50. Speculations on Original Sin
  51. To The Moon!
  52. Europe’s Perpetual Wars – Franco-Prussian Edition
  53. This Week’s Book Review - From Whaler to Clipper Ship
  54. SpaceX Crew-8 Launch
  55. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-41 Launch
  56. SpaceX Transporter-10, SmallSat Rideshare Launch
  57. ‘Walk Toward the Fire’: Remembering Andrew Breitbart
  58. Weekly Space Report: Starship TF3 & HLS, Intuitive Machines, and JAXA
  59. That Dreadful Putin

February 2024

  1. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-40 Launch
  2. Soyuz Meteor-M 2-4 Launch
  3. Approaching Human-Level Forecasting with Language Models
  4. AI and Psi with Paul Werbos
  5. When did NGOs become so prevalent?
  6. Trump should sell his NY business and assets
  7. Can someone educate me on NY law?
  8. SpaceX Starship Second Flight Test
  9. In Praise of Monarchies
  10. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX, Intuitive Machines, Jaxa, RocketLab, Varda Space
  11. Rural Interlude
  12. This Week’s Book Review - Missing, Presumed Lost
  13. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-39 Launch
  14. No Matter How Cynical I Get... .
  15. UFO Magnetic Field Calculation
  16. Tesla “Full Self-Driving” Beta [V12.2.1] vs. Costco Parking Lot
  17. Chinese hacking company I-Soon document leak: What to know
  18. So is this as bаd as I think?
  19. Remember when China did not make cars ? - Aviation edition
  20. How Many Words Do You Know?
  21. Report From the Front Lines of Family Covid
  22. Tucker Carlson's Putin Interview
  23. SpaceX Telkomsat HTS Launch
  24. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-15 Launch
  25. This Week’s Book Review - An Angel Called Peterbilt
  26. Is It Really Unthinkable?
  27. Weekly Space Report: Starship WDR attempts, ISS traffic, Nova-C Lander
  28. Rocket Lab “On Closer Inspection” Launch
  29. The Past & Future of a Liberal Society
  30. ISRO INSAT-3DS | GSLV Mk II Launch
  31. Three-Dimensional Modeling and Animation in the Browser
  32. Which US states are the smartest?
  33. Air Launched Rockets: Why Not?
  34. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-14 Launch
  35. Progress MS-26 Cargo Launch to the International Space Station
  36. JAXA H3 Test Launch Two
  37. This Week’s Book Review - The Killing Ground
  38. SpaceX USSF-124 Launch
  39. Red Roulette
  40. Microsoft Creates VALL-E, AI-Driven Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS)
  41. Weekly Space Report: Starship, PACE, Dreamchaser, and JWST
  42. Is Static Random-Access Memory Reaching the Limit of Scaling?
  43. History of VR
  44. Books on the Shelf
  45. A 639-year-long John Cage organ piece just changed chord, for the first time...
  46. Culture War in China: A totalitarian approach to a cultural problem
  47. Weekly Space Report: Rapid prep for Test Flight 3, and more
  48. Non-destructively reading ancient scrolls
  49. The Tenor of Life in a Crumbling Nation/Society
  50. This Week’s Book Review - Ancient Rome's Worst Emperors
  51. You Are What You Eat
  52. Just a peek…
  53. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-13 Launch
  54. SpaceX/Axiom Space Mission 3 Launch
  55. SpaceX NASA PACE Launch

January 2024

  1. A Laser Breakthrough Could Change Quantum Machines Forever
  2. Why, oh why could we not have had this out in 1962?
  3. Northrop Grumman / SpaceX Falcon 9 / Cygnus NG-20 Cargo Launch to the International Space Station
  4. Estimating Number of Species with Rarefaction Curves
  5. Analysing the Tokyo Airport Runway Collision
  6. Landing in Hell—Soviet Venera Venus Landers
  7. JAXA XRISM / SLIM Launch and Lunar Landing
  8. The Life & Times of Claude Shannon
  9. Communications Reestablished with Mars Helicopter “Ingenuity”
  10. “Tom Swift and His Flying Boat” Added to Fourmilab's Tom Swift Collection
  11. This Week’s Book Review - Liberty’s Daughter
  12. Weekly Space Report: Shields Up at Starbase for Third Launch, Mike Griffin’s “Let’s Do Apollo Again”, Axiom-3 Arrives at ISS, Japan Upside Down on the Moon
  13. Rocket Lab “Four Of A Kind” Launch
  14. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-38 Launch
  15. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-12 Launch
  16. The Mad Bomber of New York
  17. “Spectacular nucleosynthesis from early massive stars”
  18. The Propaganda Technique That Threatens Trump's Reelection
  19. Japan's Rainfall and Landslide Simulator
  20. Ulexite “Television Stone”—How Does It Work?
  21. Heads Exploding Everywhere—Richard Lynn's “Sex Differences in Intelligence”
  22. Edwin Kite on Warming Mars
  23. As Above, So Below? A Slice of the Universe
  24. RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth
  25. From 1937—“Highway Mania”
  26. From 1963—“SAC Command Post”
  27. Ignorance is not a barrier
  28. Marc Andreessen on Left and Right, the Need for a Better Elite, and the Return of Bourgeois Capitalism
  29. Which Actor Who Played Him Was Closest to Ian Fleming’s James Bond?
  30. Eugene Stoner on Small Arms Design—Part 1: Origins of the AR-15
  31. Testing Tesla's “High Fidelity” Parking Assistant
  32. History of the Alternating Current Transformer
  33. Striking a Match with a Bullet at 380,117 Frames per Second
  34. “Web Environment Integrity”—Google Embraces the Digital Imprimatur
  35. Maximum collateral damage attack on the US by Russia, OPEN-RISOP by David Teter
  36. Automation Gone Amok—Smartlynx A320 Training Flight Accident
  37. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-11 Launch
  38. From 1960—“Nuclear Effects During SAC Delivery Missions”
  39. Weekly Space Report: Stretching Starship, More Propellant Tanks at Starbase, Axiom Mission 3, Japan's SLIM Lands on Moon
  40. This Week’s Book Review - Ira Hayes
  41. Falling into a Black Hole
  42. Stephen Wolfram on the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Dark Matter, and Atoms of Space
  43. U.S. Federal Communications Commission Rejects Starlink Bid for Rural Broadband Subsidies
  44. Death of a Republic
  45. Understanding Electronic Circuits with Gears and Chains
  46. United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur Cert-1/Peregrine Lunar Lander Launch
  47. The Most Reflective Mirror Is Made from Transparent Plastic
  48. Making Authentic Eggplant Parmesan in Italy
  49. Collections: The Status Quo Coalition
  50. Albania Goes It Alone
  51. Polaroid Instant Cameras—Part 2: Colour and Pack Film
  52. Harvesting Edible Jellyfish around the World
  53. Bendix MG-1 Central Air Data Computer—Part 5: Final Repairs and…It Works!
  54. The Channel Tunnel after Thirty Years
  55. “The year is dying in the night”…
  56. Polaroid Instant Cameras—Part 1: Origins
  57. Making Gorgonzola Cheese in Italy
  58. Soviet Nuclear Powered Icebreakers
  59. Manufacturing Wheelie Bins in Korea
  60. The Strange History of the British Pub “Tied House”
  61. What Does a Declining Population Mean for Economic Growth?
  62. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX Starbase Vertical Tank Farm Demolition, Starship Explosion Explained, Artemis Slips Again, Vulcan Success, Peregrine Failure
  63. This Week’s Book Review - Following Caesar
  64. Finally! Battery-Powered Electric Shoes
  65. Elon Musk's 2024 SpaceX Status Report
  66. Texans Reduced To Border Red Rover Mud Wrestling By The Hollow State
  67. Kyle Rittenhouse found Not Guilty on All Charges
  68. Rapid Rocket Reusability with Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa
  69. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-10 Launch
  70. Positioning Silicon Wafers with Nanometre Precision in ASML Photolithography Machines
  71. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-37 Launch
  72. Genomics, Synthetic Biology, and Sequencing the Ocean with Craig Venter
  73. Bleeding Edge Projects from NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts 2024 Selections
  74. Building a New AC Probe for a Vacuum Tube Voltmeter
  75. China Launched a Gravity-1 (YL-1)
  76. Critical Points In The Evolution of Individuality
  77. Gestetner Cyclostyle—Dawn of the Copying Machine
  78. Room Temperature, Ambient Pressure Superconductivity—This Time for Real?
  79. Other People Are Noticing ...
  80. Purifying Cæsium Metal by Distillation
  81. John Romero—Programming Principles from id Software's Early Days
  82. Do Black Holes Have Singularities?
  83. Development Log 2024-01-09
  84. Johnwalker
  85. Manufacturing Mayonnaise
  86. This Week’s Book Review - The Invisible Universe
  87. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX Starbase Vertical Tank Farm Disassembly, Booster 10 Back to the Shop, ULA Vulcan Launch Preparations, Starlink Direct-to-Mobile Launch, 2023 Spaceflight Retrospective
  88. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-35 Launch
  89. Coming Soon from Fourmilab: The Current Thing Wireless Connected Hat
  90. Extinguishing a Fire with Sound
  91. Epiphany, this one and the next
  92. Imitation learning... of cooking skills
  93. de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle — A “Chopper” for the Infantry
  94. Vivek Ramaswamy Touts Endorsement Of White Supremacist Former Rep. Steve King
  95. Surprise! The “Small Magellanic Cloud” Is Actually Two Superimposed Galaxies
  96. Christmas 2023 Retrospective, Part II. Conversation With Grandchildren
  97. Wok This Way—Stainless Steel Wok Manufacturing in Taiwan
  98. World's Smallest Round Cathode Ray Tube Video Display
  99. Engineering Railroad Grade Crossings
  100. Slam Dunk Pneumatic Robot Boots
  101. Ranching Pheasants for Game Hunting
  102. Anti-Spicy —Synthesising Capsazepine (Capsaicin Antagonist)
  103. The Economics of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Giga-Fabs
  104. SpaceX Ovzon 3 Launch
  105. Christmas 2023 Retrospective, Part I. Season’s Greetings From the Public Educational/State Establishment: We Wish You An Anodyne Christmas Winter Solstice
  106. Infant potty training
  107. Build Your Own 500 Watt Computer Target Tracking Laser Weapon
  108. Shoddy Products, Fake Reviews, Fleeing Brands—Is Amazon Crumbling?
  109. Why Do Spacecraft Have To Perform a Fast, Hot Re-Entry?
  110. Chaotic Motion and the Long-Term Stability of the Solar System
  111. Kaboom! Vulcan Centaur Test Stand Explosion
  112. BasedCon 2022

2023 299

December 2023

  1. The Large and the Small—Humans in the Middle
  2. This Week’s Book Review - Down These Mean Streets
  3. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX Starship Static Fire Double Header, Shuffling Ships at Starbase, Farewell Booster B1058, Falcon Heavy Launches X-37, Starlink Sneak Peek
  4. Chirp! Understanding LoRa Modulation
  5. Books, papers, magazines, oh my!
  6. Inside an Electromechanical Pinball Machine, Part 2—Relay Logic
  7. Filling the Plane and Space with Circles
  8. SpaceX Double Static Fire: Booster 10 and Starship 28
  9. 2023 Lifetime account fundraiser: Rare usernames and 11 chances to win
  10. SpaceX Falcon Heavy / USSF-52/OTV-7 X-37B Launch
  11. Optical Wizardry with Interference at ASML
  12. Climbing Power Pylons
  13. π = 4? π = ∞? The Puzzle of the Schwarz Lantern
  14. Development Log 2023-12-29
  15. Gear Manufacturing in Vermont
  16. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-32 Launch
  17. Powering Up a 1950s Bendix G-15 Vacuum Tube Computer
  18. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-36 Launch
  19. Rudy Rucker's “Juicy Ghosts” Is Now Available for Free
  20. Modified Newtonian Dynamics versus Elusive Dark Matter
  21. Communications Satellites, Part 7: Iridium and Globalstar—False Dawn of Global Satellite Constellations
  22. The Prisoner's Dilemma in Theory and the Real World
  23. The Brennan Gyroscopic Monorail
  24. Have a Merry Teletype Christmas!
  25. Making an Authentic (?) Christmas Tinner
  26. WW II Code Breakers To Cray Supercomputers
  27. Weekly Space Report: Starship 28 Static Fire and Shedding Tiles, Firefly Second Stage Failure, Relativity Space Engine Test, Kerbal Space Program 2 Update
  28. This Week’s Book Review - The Buster Clan
  29. Apollo Spacecraft S Band Communication System, Part 29—Astronaut Voice Downlink
  30. Firefly Aerospace Alpha-FLTA004 “Fly the Lightning” Launch
  31. Water Bouncing off Water: Non-Coalescence
  32. SpaceX SARah 2 and 3 Launch
  33. A Hundred Car Batteries Wired in Parallel
  34. How Do Series String Christmas Lights Keep Working When One Burns Out?
  35. Un-memory: nine years on
  36. How Dynamic Random-Access Memory Went Three-Dimensional
  37. Kerbal Space Program 2 Update: “For Science!”
  38. The End of Science
  39. SpaceX Super Heavy Booster #10 Static Fire Test
  40. Stabilising the Leaning Tower of Pisa
  41. Inside Japan's E-Defense Earthquake Simulator
  42. Can Animals Use Grammar: Introduction and Teaching Grammar to Animals
  43. SpaceX Starship #28 Static Firing
  44. Roswell System Narrative
  45. Sad. Just sad
  46. Making Capocollo at Home
  47. Smarter Artemis?
  48. RISC V Microcontroller for 10 Cents
  49. Rocket Lab “The Moon God Awakens” Return to Flight Launch
  50. This Week’s Book Review - Norse Mythology
  51. Silicon Sensors, Micro-Electromechanical Systems. Molecular Motors, and Nanobots
  52. Tupolev Tu-114—A Bear of an Airliner
  53. Weekly Space Report: Demolition, Construction, and Repairs at Starbase, Falcon Heavy Delays, FCC Pulls Starlink Funding, Relativity Space Tests
  54. Repairing a 1970s Teletype Tester
  55. Blue Origin New Shepard NS-24 Return to Flight
  56. Rudy Rucker and John Walker on Artificial Intelligence in the Roaring Twenties
  57. The Hot Chocolate Effect
  58. Jill Tarter on Searching for Alien Technosignatures
  59. How SpaceX and Atmo Predict Weather for Starship Launches
  60. The Attraction of Printed Books
  61. Despite Steam Ban, Tax Heaven 3000 Creator Says It’s “Probably Safer Than Most Big Box Tax Software"
  62. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-34 Launch
  63. Thick Water
  64. What Happened to India's Chandrayaan-2/Vikram Lunar Lander
  65. Weird Wings—Preventing Stall/Spin Accidents in Aircraft
  66. Official Political Labels, MSM-style [all else = misinformation]
  67. Robotic Battery Swapping for Electric Vehicles
  68. The Atlantic (2015): "Paranoia, we scorned you, and we're sorry."
  69. Lee Cronin on Assembly Theory, Origin of Life, Alien Life Artificial Intelligence, and Building a Brain
  70. Finally! Clear Ketchup
  71. A Small but Sad Example of Culture Desecrated
  72. Vacuum Tube Computer Part 35: Output Register—a One-Byte Write-Only Memory
  73. First commercial HTGR nuclear power plant
  74. This Week’s Book Review - Not Stolen
  75. Weekly Space Report: Starbase Tank Farm Expansion, New Thermal Protection Tiles for Starship, SpaceX Leases SLC-6 at Vandenberg, Australian Moon “Roo-ver”
  76. Trust: Two Views
  77. Robert Kroese Launches Kickstarter for Three Novel “Rex Nihilo Expanded Universe”
  78. How Does Electricity “Know” a Circuit Is Open or Closed?
  79. Three Ways to Destroy the Universe
  80. Fire Ants, the Relentless Invader
  81. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-8 Launch
  82. Flying the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle in the X-Plane Flight Simulator
  83. The Origin of Woke Capitalism
  84. Why Is Mars So Hard?
  85. What Makes a Crookes Radiometer Spin?
  86. A Typical Event of a Typical Day in (post-) Modernity
  87. Doing Berkelium Chemistry in Berkeley
  88. SpaceX Starship Second Orbital Flight Test
  89. Why Don't Continuous Welded Rails Require Thermal Expansion Joints?
  90. "Grok is wise"
  91. IBM Announces Quantum System Two, Expands Quantum Development Roadmap
  92. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-33 Launch
  93. Scout—NASA's Forgotten Smallsat Launcher
  94. When a Nature article reminds me of civilizational brain damage as portrayed by David Lynch
  95. Lost in Translation—Why Subtitles Don't Match Dubbed Dialogue
  96. Origins of Inertial Guidance Systems
  97. Handcrafting a Silver Teapot in Korea
  98. July 16: An Erocide Odyssey
  99. This Week’s Book Review - The Icarus Twin
  100. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX Starbase Tank Farm Expansion, Starship Version 2 Plans, Next Generation Mars Helicopter, NASA EscaPADE Mars Mission to Launch on New Glenn
  101. Karl Gallagher’s “Trouble In My Day” Published
  102. Riffing on the E.A.S.T
  103. SpaceX Korea 425 Project Flight 1 Launch
  104. Regulus—The First Submarine-Launched Nuclear Missile
  105. The Last DC-7C in Airline Service
  106. Jorge Luis Borges on the English Language
  107. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-31 Launch

November 2023

  1. What Is the Weight of an Object Falling at Terminal Velocity?
  2. Tesla “Full Self-Driving” Beta 11.4.4 [2023.32.9] on the Las Vegas Formula 1 Course
  3. Bloodhound LSR—Onward to 1000 Miles per Hour
  4. Quantized Redshift vs Big Bang Creation Theory and Theology
  5. The Westland Affair—Margaret Thatcher's Stumble and Recovery
  6. Zombie Mobs
  7. Multiplying with Gears
  8. V1 Robot Flying Bomb Operators' Manual
  9. Moonlight Towers in Austin, Texas
  10. Weekly Space Report: Closer Look at Starship Orbital Test Flight 2, Next Flight—Which Ship and When?, New Starlink Antenna
  11. Improving on Archimedes: New Proofs of the Volume and Area of Sphere and Cylinder
  12. Why I Now Despise the Organizers of TED Talks
  13. Neil Turok: Is the Universe Simpler than We've Been Assuming?
  14. This Week's Book Review - A World War Two Secret
  15. Restoring a Vintage (and Abused) Hewlett-Packard 410C Vacuum Tube Voltmeter
  16. It Was the Best of Thanksgivings, It was the Worst of Thanksgivings…
  17. Rolly Sticky-Picky
  18. Communications Satellites, Part 6: NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System
  19. Based Book Sale—Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2023
  20. What Does the “Popcorn” Button on a Microwave Oven Do (or Not Do)?
  21. The Five Revolutions of Modern Science Fiction
  22. European Space Agency Ariane 6 Full-Duration Core Stage Static Test
  23. Wright Turbo-Compound Engine—Piston-Powered Wizardry
  24. Civil Engineering of ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)
  25. The West's War on Competence
  26. Interstellar Warfare—Choose Your Weapon!
  27. Learning Large Ship Handling on 1/24 Scale Models
  28. From Here to the Stars with Dr Pete Worden
  29. SCANALYST: Two Year Retrospective
  30. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-29 Launch
  31. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 Wrapup, Falcon Heavy to Launch X-37B
  32. This Week's Book Review - The War of Words
  33. Announcing: “Autodesk History Explorer”, a ChatGPT Custom GPT based on “The Autodesk File”
  34. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-7 Launch
  35. Before Alexa, There Was “The Clapper”
  36. Announcing: “The Hacker's Diet Advisor”, a Weight Management GPT for ChatGPT
  37. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-28 Launch
  38. What Makes People Happy?
  39. MITE Tactical Teleprinter
  40. This is what VoxDay gets for not responding to me
  41. A Transparent V-8 Engine
  42. The Demise of Photolithography in the United States
  43. Genghis Khan Day
  44. What If Gravity Is Not Quantised?
  45. Supermassive Black Holes: The Final Parsec Problem
  46. Inside the Titanic's Engine Room
  47. SpaceX O3b mPOWER 5 and 6 Launch
  48. Growing, Harvesting, and Processing Ginseng in Korea
  49. Iceland Volcano Live Cameras
  50. Backup Beepers—Irritronics from Safetyland
  51. Weekly Space Report: Starship Flight Termination System Installed, Detailed Test Flight Plan, First Science Images from Euclid, Cargo Dragon CRS-29 to ISS
  52. This Week's Book Review - Tyranny's Bloody Standard
  53. Democracy in the EU
  54. Katherine Freese on Dark Matter Stars in the Early Universe
  55. SpaceX Transporter-9 Launch
  56. Thirsty Chalk
  57. Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval Europe
  58. The Three Types of Night Vision
  59. Everyday Astronaut Educational Video on Launch Siting
  60. Communications Satellites, Part 5: Direct to Home Satellite Broadcasting
  61. Development Log 2023-11-10
  62. Rolling Resistance: Trains vs. Automobiles
  63. Installing Linux, 1998 Style
  64. Making Raw Milk Blue Cheese in Nottinghamshire, England—Don’t Call It “Stilton”!
  65. Rocket Lab “We Will Never Desert You” Launch
  66. Virgin Galactic to Phase Out Unity Suborbital Flights in Mid-2024
  67. Queen Hillary's Hive, Sexual Mutilation of Children and UFOs
  68. Development Log 2023-11-09
  69. SpaceX Cargo Dragon CRS-2 SpX-29 International Space Station Resupply Flight
  70. Inside an IBM z16 Mainframe
  71. Google returning highly ranked pages with confabulated academic citations
  72. Who Knew? The Bulgarian Computer Industry
  73. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-27 Launch
  74. Martin Shkreli on Pharma, Prosecution, Prison, Contempt of Congress, and Accelerationism
  75. “Quantum Wormhole” and Journalistic Flapdoodle
  76. Future of nuclear power in Russia
  77. Experimental Breeder Reactor II—the Path Not Taken
  78. LLMs Are Training Humans To Be Brood Parasites
  79. This Week's Book Review - Stand Alone
  80. Weekly Space Report: FAA Closes Starship Safety Review, Double Dinkinesh, ULA for Sale?, Shenzhou's Rolling Return
  81. Military-Style, Semi-Automatic, Spaghetti Shooter
  82. Development Log 2023-11-05
  83. Jackson Coppley’s “Nicholas Foxe and the Lost Diamonds of Brazil” Is Now Available
  84. Elon Musk's Sneak Peek at Tesla Full Self-Driving V12, “Nothing But Nets”
  85. Astra Space Factory Tour: How to Build a Rocket a Day
  86. Markov Processes, Matrix Algebra, and Snakes and Ladders
  87. Stamping them Out—Nanoimprint Lithography for Semiconductor Fabrication
  88. Whatever Happened to Mobile Lounges for Boarding Airliners?
  89. Dead Stick—Engine Out over the Rocky Mountains
  90. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-26 Launch
  91. Final Boeing 747 Delivery
  92. Did Three Stars Disappear within One Hour in 1952?
  93. How India Got the Nuclear Bomb
  94. Sonar Imaging of the Ocean Floor (and Other Underwater Objects)
  95. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-25 Launch
  96. Communications Satellites, Part 4: Red Lightning—Soviet Molniya Spacecraft

October 2023

  1. Philips “Ultra Efficient” LED Bulbs
  2. This Week's Book Review - Battle of Ink and Ice
  3. Leonard Susskind on Dark Energy and the Anthropic Principle
  4. A Tornado in Your Garage
  5. Bringing’ Out Our Johnson
  6. From 1960—“The Big Bounce”: Project Echo
  7. Weekly Space Report: More Tests at Starbase, Vulcan/Peregrine to the Moon on Christmas Eve, Starliner Slips Again
  8. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-6 Launch
  9. Are Bladeless Fans More Efficient?
  10. Apollo Guidance Computer, Part 30—Core Rope Read-Only Memory
  11. I Can’t Look
  12. The Las Vegas “Sphere” Is Really a Truncated Sphere—What’s Its Volume?
  13. Understanding Gabriel’s Horn without Ever Touching Calculus
  14. Kevin Parkin on Thermal Rockets, Inference Engines, and Light Sails
  15. See Spot Chat
  16. Construction of a Sewage Pumping Station, Part 5: Pumps and Electrical Power
  17. The Bugs of Autumn
  18. The Hidden Complexity of an Ink Jet Printer Cartridge
  19. Zero to 100 km/Hour in Less than a Second—in an Electric Car
  20. Development Log 2023-10-26
  21. Shenzhou 17 / Long March 2F Launch to the Chinese Space Station
  22. A Conversation with Dave Cutler
  23. Report: Internet Users Who Call For Attacking Other Countries Will Now Be Enlisted In The Military Automatically
  24. Under Pressure: Melting Dry Ice
  25. Communications Satellites, Part 3: The First Geosynchronous Satellites
  26. The Hacker's Diet Online Source Code Repository Now on GitHub
  27. Zipline—Direct Package Delivery by Battery-Powered Drone
  28. Fourmilab UNUM 3.6-15.1.0—Unicode Character Database Updated to 15.1.0
  29. This Week's Book Review - The Longest Minute
  30. Weekly Space Report: Starbase Orbital Flight Preparations, Psyche on the Way, Annular Solar Eclipse, ISRO Abort Test
  31. From Euclid's Parallel Postulate to Curved Spacetime
  32. Wacky Units in Aviation
  33. Stephen Wolfram and Eric Weinstein on Theories of Everything
  34. ISRO Gaganyaan In-Flight Abort Test: TV-D1
  35. Lucy—Visiting Eight Asteroids with One Spacecraft
  36. What Is the Volume of an Antiprism?
  37. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-5 Launch
  38. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-24 Launch
  39. When Semiconductors Entered the Copper Age
  40. New Cybertruck prototype has odd side mirrors and a funky windshield wiper
  41. Communications Satellites, Part 2: Telstar and Relay
  42. The Crazy Rules of Contractions in English
  43. A Hand-Cranked Cassette Tape Player
  44. The Monetary Value of a Human Life
  45. Programming a Computer Numerical Control Machine with GPT-4
  46. Manufacturing Rocket Engines with 3D Printing
  47. United Launch Alliance Atlas V Project Kuiper Protoflight
  48. The RS-25 Rocket Engine—Reusability Pioneer to Disposable Item
  49. This Week's Book Review - Black Tide Rising: The Graphic Novel
  50. Gone and Changed Our Name Again?
  51. Little Me: Up for Adoption?
  52. Shalmaneser Comes to SCANALYST
  53. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-23 Launch
  54. Development Log 2023-10-17
  55. Magus
  56. Inside an Electromechanical Pinball Machine, Part 1
  57. Development Log 2023-10-16
  58. Weekly Space Report: Starbase Shuffles Hardware while Regulators Snooze, Falcon Heavy Launches Psyche, Stoke Space Reusability Plans
  59. This Week's Book Review - The Village Maestro
  60. From 1963—the All American Family Builds Its Fallout Shelter
  61. Development Log and Maintenance Downtime 2023-10-15
  62. Development Log 2023-10-15
  63. Russnelson
  64. Development Log 2023-10-14
  65. SpaceX Falcon Heavy / NASA Psyche Launch
  66. Extreme Pencil Sharpening
  67. Annular Solar Eclipse, 2023-10-14
  68. The Wirtz Spiral Pump
  69. Did Life Evolve in the Very Early Universe?
  70. Grandfather Christmas
  71. Construction of a Sewage Pumping Station, Part 4: Concrete and Connections
  72. Aligning an 8 Inch Floppy Disc Drive
  73. There's GOLD in them thar DEPTHS!
  74. OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return to Earth
  75. A Curved Elevator
  76. Brazil's Domestic Computer Industry—Destruction by Protection
  77. Ferroresonant Transformers—Voltage Regulation by Magnetism
  78. Area 51's Airline
  79. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-4 Launch
  80. SpaceX Starlink Group 6-22 Launch
  81. An Optimistic View on the Coming War with China
  82. Weekly Space Report: Moon Bases—Who, How, When, Where, and Why?
  83. Why Is the Freezer Door So Difficult to Reopen after You’ve Just Closed It?
  84. This Week's Book Review - Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever
  85. Stuart Hameroff—Microtubules, Quantum Mechanics, and Consciousness
  86. Arianespace Vega VV23 Launch: Flight VV23 – Golden Horizon | THEOS-2 & FORMOSAT-7R/TRITON
  87. Science Ain't What It Used To Be
  88. Quantum Dots—2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (or Is It Physics?)
  89. Inside Sasha Shulgin's Psychedelic Laboratory
  90. Communications Satellites, Part 1: Pre-History
  91. Vatican and Science
  92. Decoding Speech from Brain Wave Recordings
  93. Michael Walsh Goes There: “To Save America, Repeal the 19th Amendment”
  94. The Soviet Luna Program and Russia's Luna 25
  95. Tesla “Full Self-Driving” Beta 11.4.4 [2023.32.4]—Hardware 4 on the Road

May 2023

  1. Gravity Metric Engineering Physics Workshop Tuscany May 22-May 26 2023

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October 2021

  1. Welcome to SCANALYST

January 2021

  1. January 6th, 2021: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy

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June 2017

  1. An Assignment: June 14, 2017

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