Mar 10, 2025
Latest Developments in Artificial Intelligence The AI landscape is rapidly evolving, with significant advancements and strategic shifts across various sectors. Here’s an overview of the most recent developments: OpenAI’s Strategic Moves Premium...
Apr 23, 2024
The universe often communicates through subtle signs and grand gestures alike. A recent grand gesture came in the form of whispers about a new sculpture being crafted in Colorado’s mountains. Curiosity piqued, I learned that this sculpture, named Rita the Rock...
Sep 16, 2021
From David McCandless and team, who you might know from such books as Information is Beautiful and Knowledge is Beautiful has a new book on Beautiful News: Inspired by our ongoing Beautiful News project, the book surfaces and visualises the amazing, beautiful,...
Sep 3, 2021
We had to do a lot more from home in 2020. Based on the American Time Use Survey, we spent about 62% of our waking time at home. In contrast, we only spent about 50% in 2019. Here is the breakdown by activity on a weekday. For each year, I counted the total minutes...
Sep 2, 2021
After Hurricane Ida, New Orleans experienced power outages. The NASA Earth Observatory show the outages by comparing night lights on August 31, 2021 against night lights on August 9, 2021: VIIRS has a low-light sensor—the day/night band—that measures light emissions...
Dec 28, 2020
We live in a world filled with everyone’s opinions even if they don’t know why they believe them. In the past people could count of the truthfulness and quality of the news they were reading. Today, people get most of their news from friends and family....
