Apple And China

"Apple is reportedly looking ramp up manufacturing outside China":

Apple has long relied on China for the vast majority—more than 90%, writes the [Wall Street Journal] -- of its manufacturing. A small percentage of its products are produced in India and Vietnam. Now the Journal’s sources, identified only as people familiar with the talks, say that both countries have been named as potential destinations for added manufacturing.

To The Moon

"These six countries are about to go to the Moon -- here's why"

Inspiring A Young Scientist

Great story about how a friendly scientist changed a 4-year old girl's life!: "Scientist finds professor who supported her love for bugs when she was 4".

According to the article, Dr. Rebecca Varney earned "her PhD in 2021 from the University of Alabama in biological sciences and now working with aquatic invertebrates such as crustaceans as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara."

 

But my favorite sentence: "Varney, in addition to keeping walking sticks in her room growing up, had millipedes and a corn snake named Beverly Crusher."

 

 

Detecting Seismic Activity

"A breakthrough in fiber optics turned an undersea cable into 12 seismographs". (Via H.R.)

Better Chocolate

"Scientists Use 3D Printer to Craft Crispier Chocolate". (Via J.P.)

 

Apple Mail Blocks Now E-mail Tracking

"Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Tracking. Here's What It Means for You"

Truly Hard Problems

"Computer Scientists Prove That Certain Problems Are Truly Hard"

AI And EU

"A quick guide to the most important AI law you've never heard of"

Building A Wormhole

"How to build a wormhole in just 3 (nearly impossible) steps"

More Desalination

"Fluorine nanostructures can desalinate water 2,400 times faster than carbon nanotubes". (Via H.R.)

Superb Demonstration Of Bernoulli's Principle

This is spectacularly good: "High School Science Teacher Explains Bernoulli’s Principle in Viral TikTok Video". (Via J.K.)

@wolf_science Bernoulli’s Principle. #science #firefighting #fan #teachersoftiktok #learnontiktok ♬ original sound - Wolf_Science

AI Race Detection

"MIT, Harvard scientists find AI can recognize race from X-rays -- and nobody knows how"

Science Of Multiverses

"Doctor Strange and the Multiverse in Science"

Fermi Paradox Solution?

"Planetary scientists suggest a solution to the Fermi paradox: Superlinear scaling leading to a singularity".

Direct link to academic paper: "Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a possible solution to the Fermi paradox?", by Wong and Bartlett, Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2022). DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0029.

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Figure 3. Perhaps hypothetical Type III civilizations are in an inaccessible region of biotechnological–population size state space, where civilization trajectories are bounded by a ‘burnout horizon’, and long-lived civilizations have consciously reoriented their trajectories away from growth in population size and length scales to explore other dimensions of biotechnological state space. Note that we do not rule out the possibility of some kind of channel that might allow a transition to the Type III region."

Midnight Sun

Video: Artic Midnight Sun.

The EBUG In The NHL

"The EBUG Edition: On hockey, rules, and goalies". 

Via Gus Van Horn, who notes, "To the best of my knowledge, in all of professional sports, only the National Hockey League has a standing rule that can result in a fan being summoned from the stands to play".

Surveillance Update

"EU plans to require backdoor to encrypted messages for child protection".

Matthew Green, cryptography teacher at Johns Hopkins University, has described the leaked plans as "the most terrifying thing I've ever seen."

More 3-D Printing

"Scientists develop rapid new method of 3D printing glass into parts with 'the thickness of hair'". (Via W.R.)