Category Archives: Science

Hypersanity – Why Do We Need It

Posted on 02/19/2024 by Jorge Medico

We live in a crazy world. This is a phrase I keep hearing with increasing frequency. You may have uttered it yourself recently. So when I came across the following by Neil Burton, I felt it was something worth sharing … Continue reading →

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The Robots Are Here

Posted on 02/05/2024 by Jorge Medico

I posted a piece recently about AI and its impact on our future. I also have been a long-time fan if Isaac Asimov and his books about robots and robotics. So when I came across the following by Ray Zwerin, … Continue reading →

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The Challenge and Threat of Pseudoscience

Posted on 01/15/2024 by Jorge Medico

There was a piece yesterday on CBS Sunday morning about a man frozen for the past thirty years and preserved now for as long as someone is willing to pay the bills in a tank of liquid nitrogen through a … Continue reading →

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Best Books List

Posted on 01/08/2024 by Jorge Medico

A friend recently asked me to list twenty of my favorite books that I’ve read in the past few years. They are not all recent releases, and I can’t claim that they are the best books literature has to offer. … Continue reading →

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Engineering Humor

Posted on 12/11/2023 by Jorge Medico

I was going to write a serious piece today, but having been forced to turn off the TV news just minutes after turning it on, I realize I just don’t have it in me. When faced with seemingly inevitable calamity, … Continue reading →

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Outage

Posted on 08/14/2023 by Jorge Medico

The following piece by my friend Dave speaks to the vagaries of memory along with our ever increasing reliance on our technological devices. Interruption of our electronic umbilical cords leaves us starved for our needed connectivity. Outage The modem in … Continue reading →

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A Day at the Zoo

Posted on 04/03/2023 by Jorge Medico

A Day at the Zoo A number of years ago, the LA Zoo had a catchy jingle “You…belong in the zoo” that enticed a noteworthy uptick of visitors. It was one of those earwig tunes that once it got into … Continue reading →

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Artificial Intelligence – The Serpent in the Garden

Posted on 01/30/2023 by Jorge Medico

Artificial Intelligence – The Serpent in the Garden? Anyone involved with computers in their work is witnessing the exponential growth in the abilities of artificial intelligence (AI) in solving real world problems that involve pattern recognition. The chess world has … Continue reading →

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Certain Doom at the Coffee Shop

Posted on 10/26/2022 by Jorge Medico

I’m indebted to my friend Dave for another offering for the Poem of the Week. As Halloween is approaching soon, this may help set the mood. Certain Doom at the Coffee Shop Entropy is at work on meI evaporate inevitablyWe … Continue reading →

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Hope Returns

Posted on 08/31/2022 by Jorge Medico

In order to appreciate the following, you have to have to be familiar with the story of Dr. Paul Farmer, best told by Pulitzer winning writer Tracy Kidder in his book, “Mountains Beyond Mountains”. If you read one book in … Continue reading →

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