Wednesday, May 31, 2023

It Bothers Them a Lot, But Not Enough to Fix It

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SF survey: 2019 vs 2023. Everything's getting worse (Chronicle chart). An April survey showed that San Francisco residents believe that...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Climate Change: Prioritized Appropriately

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(Image from Seeking Alpha ) A not-unexpected headline: AI Poses ‘Risk of Extinction’ on Par With Pandemics and Nuclear War, Tech Executives...
Monday, May 29, 2023

Deep Sleep and Alzheimer's

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The Apple Watch says I'm not getting enough Deep Sleep. Alzheimer's could be in my future. Sleep has long been correlated with brai...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

Pentecost 2023

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Pentecost (“Whitsunday”) is the third great feast of Christianity after Christmas and Easter. It commemorates the Holy Spirit coming into t...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Of Bullwhips and White Tails

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B-School Professor Hau Lee with teaching aid Stanford Business School Professor Hau Lee's paper on the bullwhip effect was "voted...
Friday, May 26, 2023

The Zen of Gray Concrete Blocks

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Brutalist example: the FBI building We've commented on the brutalist style in architecture before. (As with many cultural topics, it ...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

Nvidia: at the Center of A.I.'s iPhone Moment

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Two-year price chart of NVDA Over ten years ago an engineering friend recommended Nvidia stock (he wasn't an insider, just a contract p...
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Astride Two Worlds

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(Chronicle photo) In the Chronicle's words California wineries are "obsessed" with 32-year-old geologist Brenna Quigley : Ove...
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Lab-Grown Meat: Its Time Will Come

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Cultured chicken from Good Meat in Alameda (Chron) Plant-based "meat" has been acknowledged, even by people who won't touch i...
Monday, May 22, 2023

The Autocrat's Fatal Flaw

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Xi Jinping in March, 2023 when he was elected President for his third term ( NPR ) Xi Jinping's "successor's dilemma" : [...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

The Golden Spoon

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The new king's official title is: Charles III, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Pictures on the Wall

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A family member had an appointment with an opthalmologist, and so it was that we were at the Stanford eye clinic, three miles east of the ...
Friday, May 19, 2023

Chinese Young Adults: the World is not Their Oyster

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Beijing job fair last August (WSJ photo) We've noted before how China's one-child policy may have triggered a population bust that...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Healthy Slough

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The winter rains have revived the Belmont Slough , which marks the border between Foster City and Redwood Shores. We've had clear ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

An Iron-clad Rule

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(WSJ illustration) For decades we had been using non-stick cookware. When the first group of pans lost their non-stickiness, we blamed ours...