Friday, July 31, 2015

Withhold Judgment, Please

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He's got game: Dan Price was recognized before the 2015 firm-wide pay raise. Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price attracted scads of favor...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Plan B Becomes Plan A

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Replacing the battery didn't work, so the problem had to be a broken connection. I pried open the 2008 MacBook to see if there was a po...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Taking on the Attributes of Their Owners

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( NY Daily News photo) Are we talking about the phones or their owners? Headline - New vulnerability can put Android phones into perm...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

The Future is Golden

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Half of Kearny was blocked (B of A building in the distance.) Temperature highs were broken around the Bay today. Reflecting poor timin...
Monday, July 27, 2015

The Study Confirms Our Beliefs, But More Work is Needed

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Numerous studies have supported the widely shared belief that a youthful ability to control impulses usually leads to adult success. However...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Save Us From the Time of Trial

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Iraq today ( CNN ) NY Times: Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East? ISIS scanned the separate groups of men and women. ‘...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Silicon Valley's Power: Right Question, Wrong Answer

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The Economist wrings its hands over the vast wealth and power being created in Silicon Valley [bold added]: The area’s tech companies are ...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Keeping an Eye on It

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The ophthalmologist compared the scans with those taken two years ago. The faint shadow had grown. "You don't need to do anythin...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Better Living Through Chemistry

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Deflection is good ( SF Gate photo) Chemistry has solved another prickly problem. The solution: pee-repellent paint . [San Francisco]...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Unexpected Finding

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Hot Not ( ebay image ) NASA's 9-year Pluto mission has produced an unexpected finding : Amazingly, there are no craters at ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Science Classifies Another Activity

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(Hemingway images from postprohibition.com) Ernest Hemingway, Mary Poppins, the Nutty Professor and Mr. Hyde walk into a bar. No, that...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Spot the Duck

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I was picking up some lemons that had fallen from the tree when there was a rustling from the bushes. I didn't spot the duck initially...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Fade to Yellow

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Two other strategies: praying and spraying (paint) Neighborhood lawns are all transitioning from green to yellow as the summer heat inte...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Cellulo-Magnetism

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The tree's magnetism attracts shopping cars. There's a puzzling scientific phenomenon that may be observed in the local Costco p...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Castle No More

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From 1965: the house of the future ( The Guardian ) Stanford experts forecast the features that our homes will have in 2050 . Particular...