Technology

Impostor Participants Are Skewing Epidemiological Surveys

Impostor participants are people who fake data in order to take part in health research or are  automated computer ‘bots’ which mimic human behavior and responses. As claims get promoted in journalism about harms related to PFAS in water, weedkillers causi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 19 2025 - 11:44am

Air India Flight 171- Flawed EE Bay Water Ingress Theory

Air India Flight 171- Flawed EE Bay Water Ingress Theory Richard Godfrey, in many videos on the YouTube channel Airline News with Geoffrey Thomas puts forward the hypothesis that the Air India Flight 171 tragedy was caused by water ingress into an Electro ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Oct 23 2025 - 4:06pm

PAST AS PROLOGUE: An Engineering Legacy

1980s photo of the author, right; his father, center; and his sister, left. ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Nov 7 2025 - 9:18am

The Immortal Life Of Beef Cells

Ranchers and vegans don't agree on much but they agree that lab-grown meat is a bad idea. Not for science ones, for economic and psychological ones. Still, activists are in a war of extinction against the modern world, so they are confident they will ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 14 2025 - 11:23am

Baby Steps In The Reinforcement Learning World

I am moving some baby steps in the direction of Reinforcement Learning (RL) these days. In machine learning, RL is a well-established and very promising avenue for the development of artificial intelligence, and the field is in rapid development. Unfortuna ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 25 2025 - 10:13am

'The Operating Reality Has Changed'- Without Mandates, The Electric Car Market Is Collapsing

Ford is the latest company to take a massive write-off on current electric car production- nearly $20 billion. Because making them would be even more costly. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 16 2025 - 1:00pm

Christmas Tinner- A Holiday Feast For Hipsters

If you are an avid gamer who can't be bothered with cooking Christmas dinner, or a hipster who wants to cynically consume packaged food while watching bad movies, there is a good news. The Christmas Tinner is 9 layers of processed food in a can, meals ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2025 - 3:13pm

Social Media Is A Faster Source For Unemployment Data Than Government

Government unemployment data today are what Nielsen TV ratings were decades ago- a flawed metric only believed if you like what they show. Government unemployment data take too long, like the CDC for the last 15 years needs six weeks to tell the public if ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2025 - 1:55pm

Healthcare In Space- The First Medical Evacuation From The ISS

For the first time in 25 years of continuous crewed operations, an astronaut has been medically evacuated from the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-11 mission ended when a SpaceX Dragon capsule brought the four astronauts of Crew 11 home follow ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 18 2026 - 1:59am

What AI Can't Do: Humanity’s Last Exam

By this time 26 years ago, the "Dot-Com Bubble" was ready to burst. People who wanted to raise investor money claimed that they could sell anything affordably on a website; three companies were devoted just to pet food and buying ad space on broa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 25 2026 - 3:02pm