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Many houses and buildings continue to be built by hand on the spot, when there are ways to automate their construction, like assembling them in factories or at least major parts of them. Ways that have often been used, I must note. Prefabrication and Prefabricated building and Modular building...

I'm starting a new thread for the 2026 Congressional elections. Nancy Pelosi faces primary challenge from former AOC aide - POLITICO - "Saikat Chakrabarti left his chief of staff role in 2019 after criticizing moderate Democrats amid tensions within the party's progressive wing" and Former AOC...

All Nobel Prizes 2024 - NobelPrize.org - I am sadly slow on this. 😢 Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 - NobelPrize.org The two winners are John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural...

Why Everybody Hates Capital Cities - YouTube by Russian blogger NFKRZ The reasons: (1) The capital city is the biggest city, overshadowing the others, and sometimes considered its nation's default city. It gets a big share of resources, and other people consider it expensive and gentrified and...

If one has more than enough food to eat, then a good strategy is to save this excess to eat later, and to keep competition away. Food preservation is scattered across the animal kingdom. The most notable example is honey. When honeybees visit flowers, they often drink the flowers' nectar, the...

Most of the more literate religious traditions end up having sacred languages. These are usually the languages that their sacred books are originally written in, and sometimes the languages of translations considered canonical. Judaism has Hebrew, the language of the Tanakh: the Hebrew Bible or...

Astrology is the claim that the celestial bodies control our destinies and other earthly events to much greater degree and much finer granularity than is recognized in modern science. Not surprisingly, astrology and astronomy were not distinguished very clearly until recent centuries. However...

Definition of "Planet" May Change Again! Here's What Astronomers Propose - YouTube and Study Explains Why Pluto (And Some Moons) Are Actually Planets After All - YouTube What is a Planet ? The word is for a Greek word for wanderer, because planets were "wandering stars" that moved relative to...

Though she is not yet a President and may never be, Kamala Harris has a very unusual first name by President standards, though her last name is much more typical. So I decided to research the names of US Presidents and Vice Presidents with the help of The Meaning and History of First Names -...

He's still alive, but he's in poor health. Noam Chomsky health update: Famed intellectual ‘no longer able to talk’ | The Independent - "The 95-year-old famed linguist has not been seen in public since June last year" That may explain his silence on the Israel-Hamas War, something that he'd...

U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Announce Direct File as Permanent Free Tax Filing Option, All 50 States and D.C. Invited to Join in Filing Season 2025 | U.S. Department of the Treasury - May 30, 2024 That pilot program was for AZ, CA, FL, MA, NH, NV, NY, SD, TN, TX, WY, and it had several...

Freeway lid (freeway burying) and Freeway removal - the latest trend in urban design. Roads and bridges have been around for centuries, but freeways started being built around a century ago - Controlled-access highway - so that engine-powered flat-road vehicles could travel fast without...

I've found a lot of maps and videos of continent positions over geological time, but I've had difficulty finding some visualization where one can look from any direction. I've written a "Globe Viewer" app, but it would need to be cleaned up before release, and I'd need some copy-permitted set of...

Not directly, of course, but from their gravity. The Gaia satellite recently detected evidence of three black holes, though very indirectly. It is an astrometric satellite, one designed to make precision measurements of the angles between stars. It does so repeatedly, and from repeated...

I confess to great skepticism, because of what I know about human genetics. Something like 85% of our genetic variation is shared by all major population groups, and only 15% is different by continent. Understanding Human Genetic Variation - NIH Curriculum Supplement Series - NCBI Bookshelf But...

Half a year ago, the Voyager 1 spacecraft suffered a computer-system malfunction. Engineers Working to Resolve Issue With Voyager 1 Computer – The Sun Spot On 2023 November 14, the spacecraft's flight data system (FDS) started sending back nonsense: repetitive patterns of 0's and 1's...

Boston Dynamics Retires Its Legendary Humanoid Robot - IEEE Spectrum noting Farewell to HD Atlas - YouTube Atlas Manipulates | Boston Dynamics - YouTube Evolution of Boston Dynamic’s Robots [1992-2023] - YouTube All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics - YouTube - electric instead of hydraulic and...

Adult starfish (sea stars), at least. Along with adults of some other echinoderms: sea urchins (echinoids) and sea lilies (crinoids). Starfish Are Heads--Just Heads | Scientific American noting an article in Nature magazine: the animals are actually almost all head and no trunk This seems like...

Not just physical likeness, but also social and political and ideological likeness. Samuel Perry on X: "🧵 Ever notice folks ..." / X Then, Samuel Perry on X: "Incidentally, ...." / X I prefer to recognize that Xenophanes was right about this issue. Some 2,500 years ago, he noted that people...

Here in the US, the clocks were shifted forward 1 hour, going from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time. Daylight saving time "Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada, was the first city in the world to enact DST, on 1 July 1908" - it was then widely adopted around World War I. More recently, however...