Jeffrey Winters
@jeffreywinters
Essayist. Former science/technology journalist, including as editor in chief, Mechanical Engineering magazine. Don’t blame anyone for these posts but me.
A few years ago, there was a warehouse fire in Indiana when I was visiting. All the burning plastic led to an incredibly hot fire and the same sort of towering smoke column.
There’s this passage (not in chart form) from the EIA (www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...). Was thinking I could just look up the data in Form EIA-923 and pull together a quick water consumption/power output, but those numbers are on other spreadsheets and boy howdy are there a lot of lines.
This passage brought to mind the Supreme Court’s crusade against the Voting Rights Act (and voting rights in general), except that the Court seems less and less interested in dressing up its intent in liberal clothing. Perhaps conditions now are such that mimicry is no longer confers advantage.
It’s a bit basic, but I think the Indianapolis flag does the job.
I think there’s a lot of a living it up before the stroke of midnight vibe in elite circles right now. Burning through the remaining carbon budget is just part of it.
There’s also this, although I don’t know if he had a shirt and tie on under the thobe.
So, neighbors still have their Christmas wreath up. Uh, at what point is it time to ask if it’s ever coming down?
Just to close the loop on this, there’s a long report on the Norwegian healthcare system from the Commonwealth Fund. www.commonwealthfund.org/internationa... I’ve appended the relevant section on medical training, though Norway has had a high per cap number of doctors for years.
Because this is an incredibly funny catch on your part, a screenshot.
I love this visualization, though I have to say my Gen X brain registers it as the invisible monster from Jonny Quest.
Michael Webber at UT Austin wrote about the general concept of carbon capture and utilization at ME maybe ten years ago. And the idea dates farther back. Great to see progress in the lab. With any luck, mining carbon from the sky will be one way to get atmospheric CO2 back to sane levels.
As the article mentions, a lot (most?) of these flights are the first or last leg of a multi-flight journey, so rail wouldn’t help unless the station was at the airport. That’s probably the biggest chore with American rail: connecting it to all the non-downtown destinations.
Call me an elitist, but I’d like to have someone other than a professor of English weigh in on the future of chemistry. Like, when was the last time Robbins stepped into a lab? Took a science class of any sort?
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.
Not an apples-to-apples update, but this chart spans 2014 to March 2024. Different categories represented. But what’s interesting is that the average hourly earnings kept pace or exceeded most goods even during the 2022-2022 inflation surge.