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Can you 'live long and prosper' by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that 'highly illogical?' - Phys.org.

Illogical.

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-prosper-economics-star-trek-highly.html

Can you 'live long and prosper' by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that 'highly illogical?'

It might seem worlds away from the Earth we know. But can "Star Trek" teach us anything about the economics of our own society?

Daniel Khent 3d ago

This UTV Battles Drones in Ukraine.

To permute Gibson’s adage: War finds its own uses for things.

#warefare #drones

https://www.utvdriver.com/utv-news/v2x-tempest-anti-drone-ukraine-military-utv/
https://can-am.brp.com/off-road/us/en/models/sxs/sport/maverick-x3.html

This UTV Battles Drones in Ukraine

Ukraine has put the V2X Tempest into service. The anti-UAS platform carries a radar and two Hellfire missiles for shoot-and-scoot missions against drones.

UTV Driver

Daniel Khent 3d ago

Submerged bumblebee queens breathe underwater.

#science

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bumblebee-queens-breathe-underwater

Submerged bumblebee queens breathe underwater

Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the bees survive floods.

Science News

Daniel Khent 6d ago

katrintheresa 6d ago

“Thousands of authors including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman have published an “empty” book to protest against AI firms using their work without permission.”
#bookstodon https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/10/thousands-authors-publish-empty-book-protest-ai-work-copyright

Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work

About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

The Guardian

Daniel Khent Mar 7

Yellowstone: World's largest acidic geyser erupts for first time since 2020

Wacky Yellowstone and its non-stop shenanigans

#geology #science

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39w4mexvwyo

Yellowstone: World's largest acidic geyser erupts for first time since 2020

The Echinus Geyser had been silent for the last six years, and it is unknown whether the eruptions will continue into the summer.

Daniel Khent Mar 1

Bruce Sterling @bruces Mar 1

*I like guys who personally solve cosmology and all of physics in their spare time

https://muellerberndt.medium.com/how-observer-path-holography-improves-on-the-standard-model-and-general-relativity-c971c376027e

How Observer Patch Holography Improves on the Standard Model and General Relativity

The Standard Model can’t predict a single particle mass. General Relativity needs invisible matter to work. OPH solves these issues, and…

Medium

Daniel Khent Feb 28

Bruce Sterling @bruces Feb 26

*How come there's always just one single Singularity, can't we get killed by an agentic swarm of ten or twelve of them

Daniel Khent Feb 28

Howard Rheingold Feb 26

The searchable Whole Earth https://searchwhole.earth/

The (Searchable) Whole Earth

A searchable archive of the Whole Earth Catalog.

Daniel Khent Feb 28

Ancient stepwells brought back to life as India begins to run out of water

#climatechange #waterscarcity

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/26/ancient-stepwells-brought-back-india-run-out-water-day-zero

Ancient stepwells brought back to life as India begins to run out of water

Centuries-old wells restored to provide drinking water as parts of the country head towards “day zero” when no water will be available

The Guardian

Daniel Khent Feb 28

Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio

You just know the spy agencies are funding this.

#spy #technology

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-rydberg-atoms-handheld-radio.html#google_vignette

Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from an ordinary handheld radio. Through a careful approach to demodulating the incoming signals, Noah Schlossberger and colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were able to recover audio encoded in multiple public radio channels, with promising implications for everyday uses in consumer electronics. The research has been published in Physical Review Applied.

Phys.org