Compressed Index Of Blog Articles

01 apr 24 / greg goebel

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* MAR 2024

* FEB 2024

Joe Biden (series) generative AI arrives (series) ancient supernova traces on Earth (series) ----- Ripsaw robot tank for air defense 2-faced white dwarf star Julian Assange | Michael Mann wins lawsuit | 4-eyed sunglasses brain stimulation examined huge fine for Trump | Syrskyy speaks | steampunk Taylor Swift fediverse Zaluzhny retires | adventures in new social media ersatz dairy | AI for thermal vision | iron-air batteries drones intercept drones US strikes IRGC | Ukraine sinks IVANOVETS | quorum-breaking busted Cambrian fossils | giant viruses | bacteria in coral reefs

* JAN 2024

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* DEC 2023

Joe Biden (series) animal communications & AI (series) BRICS revisited (series) ----- Mayhem hypersonic | Transwing drone | boom-refueling pod critical minerals end-run around China Trump circles the drain | Japan & ASEAN | old-time things electrolyzing hydrogen from sea water Hunter Biden pushes back on MAGA | Jill Biden's Xmas video transparent & perovskite solar cells | China recycles renewables hydrogen-fuel hubs | popular solar Israeli-Palestine settlement? | deflated Trump | 1920s STAR TREK enzymes against COVID-19 | sauna planets | age of Saturn's rings EVs starting to take off Zelenskyy assesses the war in 2023 | a Briton talks of Trump

* NOV 2023

Joe Biden (series) capitalism & socialism (series) videogames boom (series) ----- our Galaxy's past uncovered Fermi gamma-ray observatory hunts gravity waves sanctions on Russia | GAI search | fuel & turkey prices M-55S upgrade | Corvo cardboard drone | container EW system gravity lens & Hubble constant Biden meets with Xi | my new bluetooth MP3 player California floods & recharge systems Zaluzhnyi on Ukraine War solar for Africa | oceanic solar | wind turbine shakeout electric scooters & tuktuks for Asia Trump tax evasion trial | Halloween costumes donkey genetics | warm planets without stars

* SEP 2023

capitalism & socialism (series) USA clean energy (series) Africa population growth hump (series) ----- inflatable decoys | UK T-650 drone | robot M113 black holes and dark energy Budanov speaks / Project Veritas dead / fun with crutches / Chucky race of the AI labs Russian warships taken out | Trump can't shut up | Gen-Z for Kamala hoof fungus as a material | printed wood house | sodium-sulfur battery Feds shut down Qakbot network | Facebook shuts down Spamouflage botnet Japan & South Korea alignment | US & Vietnam | Trump V 14th Amendment ant grooming against fungi | fungal toxins | solar fuel production Kemp defies MAGA | Ukraine drone offensive | dog autism

* AUG 2023

capitalism & socialism (series) viral universe (series) ----- aluminum energy storage underground predator plants | fake flowers Trump arraigned again | Ukraine War status | Fukushima discharge X-66 TBW demonstrator | ASRAAM SAM | hypersonic DART CMP evolution & gut microbiome Maui fires | Musk: no blocking | solar for everyone | US Navy fleet plans mRNA vaccines against Ebola Ohio Issue 1 election | MAGA & Darwin | Russians under pressure Africa & Putin US buildup against China | AFU likes MASHA & THE BEAR gene transfer in plants | Nadir impact crater war in the Black Sea

* JUL 2023

capitalism & socialism (series) Euclid in space (series) last tourist trip (series) ----- General Hertling on Ukraine offensive JAGM-ER missile | recycled S-200 missiles? | TRLG-230 missile molecular machines Trump fading & Biden rising for 2024 election risk factors for COVID-19 convergence on economic policy | Asian family values Dubai bike loop | Korea solar bike path | biomolecule solar panels early dark energy from CMB | cosmic optical background crazy MAGA judges | Trump Big Lie not working | emoji contract magnetic detox | virovores | Argus Pathfinder telescope array cyberwar against Europe's renewable energy grid Bidenomics | Putin's Wagner folly | Xi backs Putin

* JUN 2023

* MAY 2023

capitalism & socialism (series) last tourist trip (series) networked warfare (series) ----- Meta AI supercomputer | designing VLSI chips with AI EU warns Musk about disinfo | Biden & China | IRS online tax form top-attack anti-armor mine | JFSM cruise missile | Ukr Toloka UUVs building up the virus database Zelenskyy at G7 in JP | Trump ends the war? | Rick Wilson on DeSantis US Army & Air Force lasers Japan V China for Taiwan | Biden & inflation | Bakhmut battle Microsoft Security Copilot | perovskite retina | dye solar cell Zoonomia mammal genome project Ukraine offensive on the pad | US restraint at beginning of war Dragonfly copter to Titan | ein stein tile | rice carbon footprint rainy California Kaja Kallas on cybersecurity | Biden at Correspondent's Dinner

* APR 2023

capitalism & socialism (series) networked warfare (series) loser Xi Jinping (series) ----- Zenith kitbuilt aircraft | Polish WB Group weapons | quad Minigun growth in renewable energy | Biden wind initiative Japan & China | Fox settles Dominion lawsuit green plastic synthesis economically powerful USA dual-turbine wave power | thermophotovoltaic | optical neural chip racoon dogs & COVID-19 Eastern Europe rising | Ukraine liberal democracy | Jooz run the world mouse antlers | rain-mapper satellites | tetrataenite magnetic material sleeping brain Disney 1 DeSantis 0 | Russian population implosion

* MAR 2023

capitalism & socialism (series) loser Xi Jinping (series) my Ohio & Disney trips (series) ----- temperature-stable vaccines MS classroom AI Xi in Moscow | Kishida in Kyiv | Wyoming stumbles over abortion Stalker drone | Japanese JNAAM missile | Wingcopter drone clean ammonia synthesis war criminal Putin | Macron boosts France | dentistry & video games AI chemical analysis Ukraine offensive plans | DeSantis snowflake MoodUp fridge | quantum-dot LEDs for lighting | eVorog chatbot carbon-capture from seawater China supporting Russia | Fox News lies liquid-mirror & ASTHROS balloon telescope | bacteria to ammonia

* FEB 2023

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* DEC 2022

capitalism & socialism (series) my Ohio & Disney trips (series) liberal agenda (series) ----- Japan increases defense budget | Japanese cruise missile Artemis I to the Moon Zelenskyy in DC | omnibus bill passed | new PC adventures new US Army small arms & 6.8 mm conversion kits | Vietnam arms expo controversy over hybrid COVID experiment Japan arms buildup | Mark Hamill for Ukr | Schumer & Pelosi speak population 8 billion Kherson slaughter | Britney Griner | Elon Musk lawsuits elevator energy storage | bistable structures | SwuRo robo-rat Germany adjusts to Russian gas cutoff Ukraine cyberwar | my new desktop PC zircons trace earthquakes | dead star collision | volcanic lake.

* NOV 2022

* OCT 2022

capitalism & socialism (series) liberal agenda (series) ----- Raskin on Ukraine war | attack on Pelosi home USAF loyal wingman drone program & air mobility networking Galileo Project for SETI UKR warns invaders | crazy Giuliani & midterm election cockatoos V dumpsters | dolphins buddy up Pelosi V Trump | Alex Jones nailed | Biden's China EOs | UKR fights platinum V palladium | Moto Edge 30 Ultra | fuel cell power cube store brands Judge Dearie deals with Trump lawyers | smartphone metronome paralytics walk with electronic help | bionic hand sinking cities & rising cities | eruptions seen in ice cores Putin's bad week | Finland & Sweden as NATO members

* SEP 2022

capitalism & socialism (series) liberal agenda (series) defending Taiwan (series) ----- Cretaceous extinction Putin's desperation | Tish James takes on Trump | CNN falls RQ-21 carries drones | Smash sight | VAMPIRE rocket launcher Germany goes for heat pumps Garland runs a tight ship | my COVID booster | Pandora gamebox Resistance Operating Concept Ukrainian northern offensive | Russia's disintegration LinkNYC_5G | pay with implant | Ox Truck US hypersonic missile efforts Biden takes on MAGA | Ukraine hackers at work UN weather warning system | asteroid warning system | Earth Trojan

* AUG 2022

capitalism & socialism (series) defending Taiwan (series) UK in space (series) ----- hunting dark matter Ukraine Independence Day | Colorado mail voting | Trump books DeployNet tactical network | Echoguard radar | Gambit drone Walmart banking FBI raids Trump | rotten Russian economy | Id.Me revisited Malyuk bullpup rifle | Alligator AMR Inflation Reduction Act in detail | Russian V Ukrainian morale artificial enamel | seashell & lobster-shell materials solar Africa Russians afraid of Ukrainians | Inflation Reduction Act passed renewables gain | antiprotons & symmetry | atomic clock & Einstein superworms against styrofoam | yeasts for biofuels supplying Ukraine | Europe wildfires | FOXsplaining the 1-6 Committee

* JUL 2022

UK in space (series) new trade order (series) capitalism & socialism (series) ----- Danes buy imaging turrets | SK submarine | Etihad Greenliner electric aircraft Russian failure in Ukraine | Trevor Noah Grand Canyon uncomformity moving HIMARS | winning team animal habitat pods | smart bike helmet | track inspection drone Gaia star maps Boris Johnson resigns | Ukraine war videos RNA World biochemistry charges against Trump | Ukraine rocket Blitz

* JUN 2022

5th information revolution (series) new trade order (series) ----- nasal vaccines GMLRS in Ukraine | Roe V Wade overturned | Brexit 6 years on B61 bomb | new DEW line | JANET secret airline automotive wire harnesses Russia faces defeat in Ukraine | Trump in free fall 1-6 Committee hearings | Ukraine GIS Arta | headphones & game controller fiber, USB, & CO2 batteries bird flu & vaccines Starlink for Ukraine | weak Chinese spycraft | weapons for Ukraine microbes & Earth chemistry | vulture bees

* MAY 2022

5th information revolution (series) new trade order (series) INSAR scans the world (series) ----- climate pause didn't happen online moderation in Facebook and the UK electric gyrodyne | drone drum magazine | CONSTELLATION frigates control of methane emissions | super-emitter plants Khodarenko critiques Ukraine war | the air war | Biden tax plan drones in Ukraine war Ukraine IDs Russian dead | M602 game mouse solid-state batteries | China thorium reactor | renewables grow Ukraine's IT Army AI V protein complexes | 5K exoplanets | enzymes V plastics 3D-printed | super glass Disney V Desantis | White House press corps

* APR 2022

5th information revolution (series) INSAR scans the world (series) China's limits (series) bioelectronic medicine (series) ----- new COVID-19 vaccines 2nd Russian offensive | Taiwan defense | Mallory McMorrow speaks out Korean KF-21 Boramae fighter pig coronavirus gone tame Ukraine war on smartphone | Finland in NATO | clover lawn DRACO space nuclear power Taiwan considers Ukraine War | Trump investigations Turkish TFX fighter | USMC NMESIS | Python missile with datalink CMU robot sea snake | Sunflower solar array | laser datacom link FRBs in galactic arms | exoplanet moons | genetic COVID-19 resistance

* MAR 2022

5th information revolution (series) bioelectronic medicine (series) Szostak on the origin of life (series) ----- ancient meteor impacts anti-helium conundrum Biden's speech in Warsaw | Putin's war | no stagflation Biden's electric grid pathetic Russian military | the fall of America First Ukraine drone strikes bad planning of Ukraine invasion | bad Russian morale Meta conundrum Russia under sanctions | Fox News on Putin Tonga eruption - US Navy resupply at sea by drone - Chinese gatling cannon - Piasecki hybrid copter - my COVID booster shot - US government secure networks order - solar battery - snapfit science - why duckweed grows fast - EHT maps black-hole jet - fast-moving brown dwarf

* FEB 2022

5th information revolution (series) slow BRICS (series) Arab muddle (series) ----- SOCOM Armed Overwatch aircraft invasion of Ukraine Russia threatens Ukraine | Britain's Tories in trouble Trump in more trouble over documents | gerrymandering Canadian trucker's blockade | Pence denounces Big Lie ----- Armed Overwatch aircraft AI image noise removal Webb Space Telescope bringing down Trump Ukrainian DP-27 | RN NavyPODS modules | Kratos Airwolf attack drone bluetooth controllers versus Steam PC & my ID.me hassle microbial food | thermoelectric coating | color-changing wires extrasolar planets | Euro gravity-wave facility | microplastics from space

* JAN 2022

5th information revolution (series) Arab muddle (series) ----- Putin | Ukraine | post-COVID prospect Trump's bad week | Yellen's supply-side pitch Boris Johnson's troubles | Moqtada al-Sadr deals the cards in Iraq Bidens speaks about Capitol riot | Macron takes on COVIDiots John Dean on Watergate | Trump | COVID in the ER close-up ----- return to Venus new oilseeds a conscious universe? 2022 prospect - Breyer retires, Minnie Mouse pantsuit - Sukhoi Su-75 Checkmate - Honeywell turbogenerator - Turkish MIUS attack drone - Cambridge survey says populism is fading - fun with my enabled smartphone - my Tello phone contract - slowing down robocalls - iron-air battery - protecting birds from wind turbines - my new Google Voice number - more holidays - big comet - ancient comet impact in Chile - black hole cluster - Proboards BBS, BEACH BUGGY RACING game
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* DEC 2021

5th information revolution (series) Arab muddle (series) ----- Chernobyl smoulders viral gain of function controversy measles undermines immunity relativistic stars | rogue planets remnants of collision that formed Earth and Moon - Russia menaces Ukraine but no walk-over - Trump promotes vaccinations - my adventures with Twitter - download GARFIELD KART - solid-fuel ramjet THOR-ER - USS MIGUEL KEITH seabase - Pentagon after stratospheric ISR - 1-6 Committee reads text messages, Trump getting nervous - Trump Administration blundering with COVID-19 - difficulties in hiring due largely to early retirements - Manchin & friends for filibuster reform - my new FIDO key - micro-reactor - inflatable sails - combination bioprinting - Dr. Fauci versus the trolls - Omicron COVID variant on a rampage - 1-6 Committee wants people to talk - rethinking my writing efforts - enzymes for recycling plastics - China space telescope - fluvoxamine cuts COVID deaths

* NOV 2021

5th information revolution (series) improving aquaculture (series) ----- antiviral drugs US Army augmented reality pandemic fading out alien genomes predicting viruses - Rittenhouse & Arbery trials - smaller powers making trouble - my resurrected forum - Talyn detachable lift vehicle - SOCOM mini cruise missile - polymer-cased ammunition - COP26 climate-change convention - Twitter crashed me out - 4-power meeting on Afghanistan, Qatar represents US in Afghanistan - GE breaks up, as do other big companies - CNN reviews cybercurrencies - Federal court shoots down Trump executive privilege argument - Steve Bannon indicted - detoxifying vaccinations? - vaccination roughed me up a bit - buoyancy energy storage - array wind turbine - turning plastic waste into bricks in Kenya - mixed results of off-year election - not so easy to take down Trump - my misadventures with backups - extinct Paratehys Sea - detailed 3D sky map - accelerated development of treatments for neglected diseases - Australian-ASEAN pact - enthusiasm for remote work - fake coupon scam

* OCT 2021

America's Constitution (series) COVID-19 & evidence (series) ----- passive radar COVID-19 lab leak theory weak Finns versus fake news Biden's solar power plan - Aeralis jet trainer - cargo glider - hybrid sea skimmer | personal hydrofoil - Taliban versus ISIS-K - Lev Parnas conviction - adding DropBox to my personal network - central bankers not upset about inflation - Nick Carmody on the Trump mindset - repairable smartphones - electric trucks competitive with diesels - Mahle induction motor - China intimidates its neighbors - Frances Haugen versus Facebook - my fun with faxing documents - hand strap for my smartphone - vulnerability to breakthrough COVID infections - density of neutron stars - synthetic artery grafts - Taiwan after long-range missiles - Amazon winning employment battle - US Bitcoin crackdown coming - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes on sports antivaxxers

* SEP 2021

America's Constitution (series) COVID-19 & evidence (series) history of locks (series) ----- hypersonic missiles & cruise missiles ammonia for shipping new Moon missions super mRNA vaccines fading vaccines bitcoin implosion -- Thompson Committee subpoenas -- first meeting of Quad / Group of 4 -- French COVID pass -- UK loyal wingman drone -- DARPA interested in sea skimmers -- KAI cargolifter -- failed California recall election -- pandemic killing off COVIDiots -- 9-11 commemoration -- AUKUS alliance and French indignation -- NASA Earth System Observatory -- NASA SPHEREx cosmology probe -- Carbon Mapper satellite constellation -- Biden's big plans | vaccine mandates -- griping about Afghanistan pullout -- nanoscale kirigami -- Kroger delivery drones -- fake ivory -- lego sorter made with legos -- inconclusive report on COVID-19 origins -- chaos in Afghanistan -- Texas anti-abortion bill -- Thompson Committee asks for phone data on Members of Congress -- ivermectin & horse vaccines -- no more MP3 players for me -- ancient eagle shark -- mysterious origins of heavy elements -- Earth's crust older than believed

* AUG 2021

America's Constitution (series) synthetic biology (series) ------ cruise missile proliferation super black hole rapid planetary emergence new ARPAs - Kabul airlift - Thompson Committee requests calls ETC - FDA approves Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine - MyColorado app & vax passport - using 7-Zip encrypted archiver - Israeli airborne laser weapons - IM-SHORAD armored vehicle - ambulance ships (EPF) - abrupt collapse in Afghanistan - 2020 census & shift in demographics - new IPCC report with bad news - Biden infrastructure bill - incompetent Trump stooges - my jury duty summons - Cerebras wafer-scale AI chip - decline in costs of lithium batteries - lithium-sulfur batteries for aviation - Delta variant COVID-19 versus DeSantis - Rick Wilson asks Trumpbots to surrender - my catalpa trees - Dragonfly telescope array - lab-made hex diamonds - Antarctic giant meteor - Thompson Committee unveiled - pandemic denial - Trump versus routers

* JUL 2021

America's Constitution (series) synthetic biology (series) SETI revival (series) ------ self-teaching AI systems bats versus viruses AI systems predict protein-folding uncertainties in Hubble constant why cats like catnip - Pelosi slaps McCarthy - Right versus vaccines - FireFox video transcription plugin - Long-Range Precision Fires missiles - replacement for TOW anti-armor missile? - drone fired from grenade launcher - new books on unstable Trump - my new game PC - Trump signs falling down, Trump flailings - re-installing Windows - limitations on minerals needed to deal with climate change - California solar project - smart traffic lights - select committee vote in House - economic optimism? - a million SARS-CoV-2 genomes - variation in Cas9 proteins - ancient galaxy like Milky Way

* JUN 2021

America's Constitution (series) SETI revival (series) green energy & business (series) ----- COVID-19 vaccine boosters may not be needed MABS against COVID-19 lithium extraction from seawater reopening the world after COVID-19 work on COVID-19 vaccine boosters - House select committee on Capitol riot - Capitol rioters in court - death of John McAffee - OANN calls for executions - Pentagon UFO report - Spice 250 ER glide bomb - USAF Agility Prime cargo eVTOL program, other USAF Prime programs - Biden-Putin summit - sly Joe Manchin - ransomware attacks - lab leak theory of COVID-19 origins - ANOM fake secure communications network - my municipal fiber-optic system - Vineyard Wind 1 & Haliade-X wind turbines - floating solar behind hydropower dams - Wikihouse snap-together houses - Trump's blog a flop - international agreement on 15% corporate tax - waxing my Honda Fit / Jazz - Delta Scuti variable stars - using whale songs as seismic probes

* MAY 2021

America's Constitution (series) green energy & business (series) ----- arsenal plane skyborg drone pandemic & green energy Bell eVTOL - Hamas rockets - Belarusian air piracy - GOP snubs Capitol riot commission - Colorado vaccine lottery versus COVIDiocy - cicadas USA - MQ-Next drone - Ravn-X booster launch drone - V-Bat drone - Tim Ryan blasts GOP - Q-Anon Shaman rides the short bus - Yellen promotes tax hike - my second vaccine shot, no big deal - Ohio vaccination lottery - Chinese space station core launch - Israel-Hamas shootout - GOP boots Liz Cheney - Biden priorities, Biden as anti-Reagan - hiring shortfall - robot dolphin - structural batteries - powdered iron as fuel - GOP down on Liz Cheney - Joe Biden speaks softly, obnoxious antivaxxers, vote-counting fraud - MeerKAT radio astronomy array - modified algae to protect coral reefs - surprises in giant virus genomes - Joe Biden addresses Congress, Trump in decline - web browser bookmarks

* APR 2021

America's Constitution (series) green energy & business (series) vaccine persistence (series) ----- Biden climate plan US military footing in West Pacific comparing COVID-19 vaccines COVID-19 as ultimately an annoyance rethinking batteries - Chauvin conviction - Biden tax increase? - Armenian genocide & GML - got COVID-19 vaccine shot - Wasp TAV battlefield aircraft - KLM Flying-V airliner - Avidrone 210TL cargo drone - South Korean glide bomb - Biden pulls out of Afghanistan - dubious Tax Foundation - terriers versus bear - radical Biden? - Yellen says spend big & get tough on taxes - Republican reality or lack thereof - birds aren't real - Ree modular vehicle - augmented reality goggles for dogs - domino-laying choo-choo - EVER GIVEN gets stuck in Suez Canal & StarEagle of Space Command - Biden & Americans First - who's scared of deficits? - Trump & Lovecraft - simulating sloppy mixtures - AI invents drug synthesis schemes - Medieval volcanic eruption

* MAR 2021

America's Constitution (series) vaccine persistence (series) the one percent (series) ----- new US biotech rules COVID-19 and air travel COVID-19 and plastics COVID-19 and automation planets in the gaps - Boulder massacre - Biden Global Muscular Liberalism - Trump and his losers, Desi Lydic Foxsplains Biden - ammonia as aviation fuel, sustainable aviation fuel - chain guns & remote weapons system - Biden's positivist presidency - pandemic denial - local snowstorm & snow owl - American Rescue Plan, filibuster - wireless power transmission in New Zealand - Toyota-Honda fuel-cell emergency power bus - Chinese electric trikes in Zimbabwe - the Right freaks out over Dr. Seuss - tariffs and US steel shortages - nose microbiome - no polio in Africa - Ceres has underground sea - Trump on the defensive, Trump & McCarthy - Jerome Powell isn't worried - United Flight 328 777 sheds parts over Denver

* FEB 2021

US Constitution (series) the 1% (series) Pentagon & green energy (series) ---- digital medicine early era of Solar System reconstructing fossil history via supercomputer mRNA vaccines - human control over AIs in combat - Virgin Galactic SST - USMC FINN battlefield link - 1-06 Commission - Russia & the EU - Biden's XOs - Biden & Asia diplomacy - promoting my ebooks on Twitter - COVID-19 test vending machines - Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra camera phone - bricks as supercapacitors - crazy GOP - $15 minimum wage - probing the mitochondrial genome - herd immunity lunacy - Trump impeachment - Brexit chaos - Seth Meyers nails Marco Rubio

* JAN 2021

US Constitution (series) exploring neutron stars (series) spider genomes (series) COVID-19 menace (series) ----- digital yuan searching for dark energy COVID-19 vaccine distribution OpenRAN for 5G - Japanese helicopter landing dock - USN sub-launched hypersonic missile - Wingcopter & UPS drone delivery - introducing The Week That Was - no new Cold War with China - NASA GLIDE, Solar Cruiser, & IMAP missions - ESA Ariel mission - new chemical synthesis schemes - solar in Somalia - ridiculous holographic shields - foxes adapting to urban environments - life on radioactive worlds without stars - a Muslim considers Christmas - my Redmi Note 9 Pro camera phone
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[*] 2020 INDEX

* DEC 2020

US Constitution (series) minds of animals (series) COVID-19 menace (series) ----- cleaning up space radiation COVID-19 vaccines Hyper-Kamiokande detector dark matter theory problems COVID-19 in the developing world - Brexit deal - Biden's foreign policy - holding the line in Afghanistan - ground-launched AKPWS missile - US Marines long-range fires - US Air Force pilot-sensing system - Chang'e 5 Moon sample-return mission - nuclear thermal rocket work - new hydrogen electrolyzer tech - injectable drug against HIV - Moon water loss - evolution of carnivorous plants - valiant oxygen truckers of India - my hand-controlled drone

* NOV 2020

US Constitution (series) 3D printing (series) COVID-19 menace (series) ------ gyroplanes in service COVID-19 versus 1918 flu LIGO black hole survey elite HIV controllers - 2020 election - Trump's futile election challenge - Biden Administration & climate change - DESAER ATL-100 light cargolifter - Talon-A hypersonic testbed - Stratobus blimp drone - blue energy from river outlets - new synthetic winch cable for C-17 - juice jacking - genomics & plankton - nearest black hole - getting into ebooks - Colorado fire season

* OCT 2020

US Constitution (series) face recognition (series) COVID-19 menace (series) ------ ancient droughts & tree rings carbon-neutral China modified bacteria metabolizing CO2 vertical video renewable energy & jobs weak flu vaccines - Trump not doing well in election - China not benefiting from Trump isolationism - Biden in power? - cast ductile iron bombs - Austal autonomous ships - superconducting aircraft motor - Amazon Dash Cart - biopesticides - Mumbai traffic lights that stay on if people honk - fungus that grows after fires - general relativity and star orbiting black hole - metabolic genes in megaviruses - cyber heists - Joe Biden campaigns on Animal Crossing - local fires, Signal app, ZAMZAR.com - school districts send out buses to provide wi-fi hubs

* SEP 2020

US Constitution (series) dining & COVID-19 COVID-19 menace (series) ------ bacterial genes in plants sea drones to monitor seaquakes TESS satellite reviewed reverse genomics vulnerability of voting machines product offerings shrink in response to pandemic - death of Justice Ginsburg & nomination fight, NYT gets Trump tax form - rethinking the World Health Organization - SK Poniard missile - USN drone submarine / SUUV - Raytheon Howler counter-drone system - improved solar still - CoolAnt cooling system - Building Brick Waffle Maker - asymmetrically pulsing star - bioluminescence of dinoflagellates may be warning - history of the zipper - Alyssa Milano gets COVID-19 - schools hand out Chromebooks to students

* AUG 2020

US Constitution (series) Jerome Powell takes charge (series) COVID-19 menace (series) ------ GM fungus to kill mosquitoes BAE Systems future fighter factory super CRISPR 2020 Mars probes falling human populations - Senate report on Russian interference - Democratic & Republican national conventions - pandemic & automation - USAF does eVTOL - why Iran shot down Ukrainian airliner - Airbus MAVERIC blended-wing demonstrator - rise & fall of Playstation supercomputers - Samsung makes boxes for ingenious re-use - Apple Daisy robot recycles phones - Betelgeuse is acting up - lowering the weight limit on the neutrino - echolocation in blind humans indicates brain rewiring - pandemic & urban chickens - friendly crow pays me a visit - BURMA-GRAMs - personal coping with pandemic

* JUL 2020

US Constitution (series) society of viruses (series) COVID-19 menace (series) ------ mosaic HIV vaccine NEOCam Empire State Building & COVID-19 hidden primordial galaxies fast radio bursters as magnetars / FRBs & intergalactic medium Jeff Bezos - Democrat joint plan - Trump flounders in pandemic - DARPA Gremlins - Iranian loitering anti-helicopter missile - Vanguard 130 corvette - SunRISE CubeSat constellation - nanosatellite bust - drone cellphone relays - transparent PV cells - wired face mask - virus with no known genes - ancient Earth material - mystery drones on the plains - fun with smartphones & voice IP, bandanas

* JUN 2020

US Constitution (series) COVID-19 economic challenge (series) COVID-19 menace (series) internet of things (series) ----- deadly dark matter social media and moderation hybrid simulations Africa solar village artificial chloroplasts - summer of protests - Trump in steep decline - drone R22 helicopter - communications relay payload for KC-46 tanker - DARPA active-flow control aircraft project - ICESat 2 probes coral reefs - electric vehicles & autoworkers' jobs - Sonoff Micro wifi-controlled USB module - Power USB-C becoming popular - mass of Milky Way Galaxy - malaria cases falling worldwide - Gene Simmons pushes face masks, Africans do masks in style - masks as a social statement

* MAY 2020

US Constitution (series) fragile AI (series) internet of things (series) ----- genomic probe of protein structures getting too hot too fast pandemic boosting green energy fly connectome life at extremes - COVID-19, Trump, Biden, election2020 - movie theaters fading out, virtualization rising - next-generation jammer pod - US Army long-range precision fires hypersonic missiles - MBDA Enforcer light missile - smart speakers with lidar - solar panels with thermal power extraction - car parts from coffee husks - coyote-badger team-ups - developmental genes & squid eyes - Britain's Act of Union result of volcanic eruption - hydroxychloroquine craze - Brad Pitt does Fauci - bandanas against COVID-19

* APR 2020

US Constitution (series) encryption wars (series) internet of things (series) global supply chains (series) ----- Vietnam & Brazil solar power drug discovery database ventilators modeling pandemics China under stress - COVID-19 - vegan crocodilians - Bell 360 Invictus gunship - Sikorsky Raider-X gunship - Ikea smart furniture / rooms - robotic surgical worm - car cameras to monitor drivers - human-challeng vaccine testing - COVID-19 and masks - global earthworm map - 5G scares - living under COVID-19 - getting a second charge card - TextFree & free VOIP number

* MAR 2020

US Constitution (series) AI at war (series) global supply chains (series) ----- DARPA agenda Solar Orbiter Sun probe failed solar turbogenerator plant & India solar power eyes of deep-sea creatures & armor-plating of such Lockheed Martin SST - COVID-19 - Trump versus pandemic - Biden for president - Brazil MTC-300 Matador cruise missile - Japanese cruise missile - Hyundai-Uber EVTOL - Google Action Blocks - UPS experiments with self-driving trucks - Litho hand controller - COVID-19 vaccine & treatment efforts - Inouye Solar Telescope - cremation becoming more popular - Signal encrypted-messaging app - local McDonald's does touchscreens - car warranty spam

* FEB 2020

US Constitution (series) global supply chains (series) ----- MERMAID ocean floats brains of dogs mapping the body's cells insect graveyards wood-drill ants & symbiotic feather mites California digital privacy bill coronavirus threat convenience stores moving up - Trump impeachment, Romney speaks up, Pelosi tears up speech, Bernie boom - trade deficit not a real problem - Raytheon Peregrine AAM - RGW 110 recoilless grenade launcher - S-70 Okhontnik drone - Google collecting US health data - hotel locks easily hacked - self-driving hotel room - Jupiter's fuzzy core - El Salvador volcano eruption in 6th century - ASIM monitors lightning from space station - oldsters playing video games - competition chase tag - my new Honda Fit / Jazz

* JAN 2020

US Constitution (series) bacteriophage revival (series) global supply chains (series) ----- light from vacuum return of the Aptera EV & electric drives in wheels solar methane & ammonia production digital Earth & hybrid Earth simulations China robocars printed fake steak US directed-energy weapon development - impeachment, Iran clash, Australian fires - European TWISTER missile-defense effort - Iranian smart bombs - US Army Silent CROW EW pod - renewables outpace coal - solar power in Yemen - Vidgets smartphone case - climate projections usually haven't exaggerated - blue whale heartbeat - finding traces of gold in tree leaves - my photo trip to Fort Collins winter garden - Perchten monsters & Fastnacht - posting to Twitter
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[*] 2019 INDEX

* DEC 2019

US Constitution (series) global supply chains (series) ----- fast radio bursters RISC-V & nanotube processor VR sickness drunk on cola sodium & aluminum batteries & heat for fast charging customized immune cells district cooling & heating interstellar comets & Planet 9 as black hole - Afghanistan today - homelessness - impeachment news continued - Brimstone 2 missile & ground-launched Brimstone - rumors of Hellfire ninja warhead - potential of offshore wind - Google Pixel 4 camera phone - UPS does natural-gas trucks - x-ray SETI - global manure map - fossil fungi - Thai artists do fake street crossings - fake vampire teeth - my new TV & Amazon Fire TV Cube - RFN for November

* NOV 2019

US Constitution (series) global decarbonization (series) ----- space ADS-B constellation Lithuanians against fake news human mutation rates Deepmind versus Starcraft II AI face diagnostic billion hectares of forest marine viruses India's face recognition system - why no inflation? - bashing the billionaires - Iranian cruise missiles - Rafael SPICE smart munitions - Thales BRAIN modular drone system - Pelebox smart locker for HIV patients - storing energy as methane - British Stan parking robot - heat-radiating wood panels - origins of static electricity - rubber-band refrigeration - 8 Bit MONSTER MASH is MONSTER MATH - giving up on the Oculus Go VR set, Crazygames.com - RFN for November

* OCT 2019

US Constitution (series) global decarbonization (series) ----- using AI to convert brain activity to speech vertical farming phages versus resistance internet of things plant kin assistance DOJ rules on genomics Mozilla PrEP against HIV investing for climate change - Putin riding high - Russia in Africa - breaking up Big Tech? - APKWS laser-guided rocket - T2000 modular turret - Desert Spider turret - assays with biochip - recyclable picnic coolers - recyclable plastics? - 3D-printed heart & vascular networks - nanomaterials megalibraries - inadvertent swastika ride at German theme park - trimming trees by helicopter - RFN for October

* SEP 2019

US Constitution (series) global decarbonization (series) ----- Lego-builder robot ECJ gene-editing edict house sparrows & humans solar booms farms turned to solar in California AI & medical diagnostics perovskite leds AI versus protein folding - Syria's civil war - Facebook endures - UK LANCA loyal wingman - tight-squeeze drone - Falcon SAM system - 64-megapixel smartphone camera imager - photocell to generate both electricity and hydrogen - algae curtains for cities - paper disease diagnostic - German wolves reviving - GM plants against air pollution - teqball - Area 51 festival? - RFN for September

* AUG 2019

US Constitution (series) global decarbonization (series) theory of queues (series) ----- bacteria for medical treatment low-budget KaiOS collecting fecal samples for microbiome studies easy-to-use AI tools Russian Spektr RG x-ray observatory variability of ancient climate Smithsonian climate chart galaxies with no dark matter - signs of public unrest in Eastern Europe - China blames Trump for problems Trump makes - Vietnam benefiting from US-China trade war - tricks to improve democratic decision-making - SPIMM / Mistral light missile system - Boeing truss-braced airliner - sleeper modules for airliner lower decks - Fiat Centoventi modular car - voice-controlled Monopoly game - debit card with fingerprint reader - why the zebra evolved stripes - using UV to convert methanol to ethanol - trickle charge seals lead inside old pipes - storm Area 51? - emojis in court cases - RFN for August

* JUL 2019

US Constitution (series) theory of queues (series) updating the potato (series) ----- AI generates clickbait articles AI evaluates toxicity alternatives to alcoholic beverages plastic roads contrail contribution to climate change gene testing & the law Libra cryptocurrency China's Green Great Wall resource crunch on sand - Boris Johnson becomes UK prime minister - Huawei and confrontation with China - the real story behind currency wars - rethinking US Navy carrier air groups for the drone age - AIM-260 long-range air-to-air missile - Rafael Spike NLOS missile - Chinese Jilin satellites - Canadian Radarsat constellation - Makani wind-power kite - smart uniforms to track Chinese students - Caper smart shopping cart - brains of domesticated bunnies - dark genome may help survive environmental stress - plastic microparticles unlikely to be health threat - Luca Pacioli & the invention of double-entry book-keeping - gay couple has mom bear their child - my day trip to Denver & USB music player - RFN for June

* JUN 2019

US Constitution (series) updating the potato (series) repairing the welfare state (series) ----- utilities using drones for monitoring tandem PV cells verification of general relativity in galactic core EU versus Big Tech new climate models indicate faster warming burning EVs are no joke carbon fiber boom offshore wind USA - Saudi-Iran animosity - US cyber attacks on Russia's power grid - democracy versus capitalism - M-SHORAD interceptor missile - IMI Rampage air-launched ballistic missile - Thales Stratobus drone airship - NASA Neocam satellite - Amazon listens in on Alexa conversations - Huawei P30 Pro & Hubei Red Magic 3 phones - ESA Pulchron pulsar clock system - galactic collision - fun with VR - Galaxy S6 phone - RFN for May

* MAY 2019

US Constitution (series) repairing the welfare state (series) ----- loyal wingmen geological traces of dark matter dilapidated bitcoin MROI optical interferometer Amazon does machine learning rapid Antarctic meltdown great Texas emu rush Trillion Trees project - carbon-neutral UK? - dark North Korea - ongoing stock market boom - flying car limitations - Franco-German next-generation fighter - Carl Gustaf guided munition - EAGLE ESPA space tug - Dutch concrete printed homes - Bose AR sunglasses - food delivery apps in Africa - resurrected climate panel - rapid melting of Snowball Earth - wild dolphins doing the tail walk - braille blocks, Korean smartphone zombies, & Chinese Lego piracy - RFN for April

* APR 2019

US Constitution (series) repairing the welfare state (series) ----- boosting the koala & rhino microbiomes California Green Deal using muons to probe matter DNA privacy considerations hachimoji DNA ATS & XQ-58 combat drones rethinking NGAD next-gen fighter using CRISPR for disease diagnostics - Assange arrested - Putin menaces European elections - cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris fire - SLAARGM missile - US hypersonic weapons - Chinese drones - Ultima Thule flyby - DARPA space nuclear rocket engine - electricity from salt water via membranes - diamond dust ID scheme - busting Amazon thieves - Great Barrier Reef hurting less from climate change than thought - humpback whale songs - using bacteria to create universal donor blood - Loveland public library vocal book drop - micro bluetooth keyboard, Nintendo Labo VR - RFN for April

* MAR 2019

US Constitution (series) repairing the welfare state (series) China's Belt & Road Initiative (series) ----- finding new RNA viruses dark energy changes & blazars versus star formation history of string and rope AI-generated fake faces wi-fi 6 now being introduced timing the era of the Deccan Traps Chinese counterfeits persist converting old cars to electric vehicles - new rush for Africa - Brexit getting crazier - EU copyright directive - CCTT combat systems simulator - Hatchet miniature smart bomb - X-60A GOLauncher hypersonic vehicle - Dutch electrified canal boats - Kohler smart toilet - Mitsubishi blue sky light fixture - map of future city climates - mistletoe's broken mitochondria - CRISPR barcoding to trace development - French do lightsaber duels - RFN for February

* FEB 2019

US Constitution (series) China's Belt & Road Initiative (series) public security & data privacy (series) ----- organism development UK in space Zwicky Transient Facility telescope slowbalization new space telescope proposals using AI in genomics smart traffic lights smart whiskers - NATO unhappiness with Trump - high tide of the US Left - Bill Gates on taxes - robot jellyfish - Japanese island of rare earths - Chinese smugglers using drones - Farout planetismal - people can recognize 5000 faces - insect surge in warming world - Dreamscape Immersive VR attraction - RFN for January

* JAN 2019

US Constitution (series) public security & data privacy (series) ----- AI detects viruses & viral specialization deregulating hemp saildrones America's baby bust battlefield MANET sunbox energy storage the time before time India's pollution bright young sun paradox & quick-freeze Earth - EU not ready to fall over - South American Rightist leaders have weak mandates - Britain's referendum quandary - Nammo ramjet-powered artillery round - MBDA LPE missile concepts - Black Hornet III micro-drone - lithium-oxygen cells - Dutch underground cycle parks - recycling chewing gum - USGOV offshore wind lease - colliding black holes - life returned quickly after Chicxulub impact - Tetris effect game as art - Alexa & Siri conspire against humanity - RFN for December
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* DEC 2018

US Constitution (series) public security & data privacy (series) ----- cosmic dawn finding HIV reservoirs in tissues precision definition of the second Africa's baby glut Greenland impact crater making money off climate change 536 CE was a terrible year Boeing MQ-25 Stingray drone - North Korea dodges sanctions - US manufacturing jobs stable - Sundar Pichai testifies on Google bias - Israeli guided surface-to-surface missiles - flow batteries for aircraft - Kalashnikov AK-308 automatic rifle - anamorphic lens for smartphones - larvae for food in Congo - aerial tramways for Loveland - island life shrank humans - guarding against asteroid impacts - Dutch washing machine money laundering - RFN for November

* NOV 2018

US Constitution (series) public security & data privacy (series) infant learning and AI (series) ----- digital payments for India nerve agent threat who pays for tariffs 21st-century launderers banks get marketable data from charge cards Boeing T-X trainer AIDS weariness - West calling out Russian misdeeds - limited China-Japan rapprochement - US hostility to WTO - more Brexit folly - DARPA drones maneuvering inside buildings - Chinese FN-M light missile - Exos sounding rocket & smallsat launcher - international reusable booster effort - flying fire hose - MIT 3D-printed drone boats - effort to sequence all eurkaryotes - malaria makes humans smell to attract mosquitos - nitrogen-fixing bacteria not universal in plant families - trip to Denver - my RCA Cambio tablet-notebook - RFN for October

* OCT 2018

US Constitution (series) infant learning and AI (series) rebuilding Iraq (series) ----- IceSat 2 low-cost genomics social-welfare funds balkanization of US toll road system global smartphone manufacturing complex China gets tough on imports of US waste automation not so scary Aeolus winds satellite smart streetlights - Dutch versus Russian hackers - China's Belts & Roads Initiative - China holds good cards in trade war - frustrations with US dollar as world currency - Iran reshuffles cabinet in response to US sanctions - new Army rifle & light machine gun - UK Tempest fighter concept - BAE Systems augmented-reality cockpit - CLARREO Pathfinder instrument for ISS - European SCARBO CO2 observation constellation - new Amazon Alexa microwave oven, auto module, ETC - new cutesy UPS trucks - Lixie displays - poison frog colors also amount to camouflage - heavy-duty vulture microbiome - salt-water trout quickly evolves to fresh water - my multi-color porch lights - my RCA Cambio mini-PC - RFN for September

* SEP 2018

US Constitution (series) technology & African development (series) ----- cheap catalysts for solar-to-fuel conversion bitcoin is a bust Amazon fulfillment robotics electroshock pain therapy generic pharma under pressure paying for user data face recognition Parker Solar Probe - rethinking the international order in the age of Trump - Trump's futile assault on US environmental policy - Brexit approaches crunch time - DARPA Gremlins air-recovered drones - Schiebel CamCopter - DASH-X air-dropped drone - sinkholing for data security - Infento rides kits - radar to detect guns - hyperparasatoid wasps & vines that afflict gall wasps - stick insect eggs use bird droppings for dispersal - got rid of my phone - RFN for August

* AUG 2018

US Constitution (series) technology & African development (series) ----- progress in DNA nanostructures public random-number generators flickering quasars CO2 concentrations growing cobalt mining boom more on insect farming peas as a protein source Netflix as a global TV powerhouse odorant systems - assertive Chinese military posture - Iranian fake news system - Trump & business - rents & taxes - Putin's military sabre-rattling - Kinzhal & Iskander-M missiles - USAF hypersonic weapons development - Stratolaunch spacelift boosters - Mercedes self-driving taxis - Microsoft imitating Amazon Go - self-folding thermal origami - malign E. coli strains - AI molecular design system - giant ichthyosaur - Qatar dairy business - my Exxon-Mobil loyalty card - RFN for July

* JUL 2018

US Constitution (series) technology & African development (series) quantum thermodynamics (series) ----- telescopes to hunt gravity wave events water in the deep Earth / meteorite fragments from deep Earth scanning all animals reduced-cost carbon capture right-to-try and FDA Solar System X objects Gaia observatory data release e-bike revolution - Kim Jong Un's priorities - Saudi revolution - rising oil prices - phasing out coal plants - Cessna SkyCourier - THAAD ABM to Germany? - drone C-130 Hercules - Power-Blox - Nuro R-1 delivery vehicle - drone displays for 4th of July - unprepared for next major volcanic eruption - plants outweigh all other life on Earth - 11-generation human family tree analysis - THE ONION slams Zuckerberg - RFN for June

* JUN 2018

US Constitution (series) quantum thermodynamics (series) drone delivery (series) ----- how we think something is real genes underlying big human brain virtual twins for factory support Ebola vaccine trial Chinese radio astronomy beyond the Moon Indonesia's volcanoes we can't afford climate change - rise of the autocrats - soft Brexit? - US tariffs - Iranian Mohajer 6 drone and Ghaem guided bomb - advances in mine detectors - Lockheed Martin hypersonic vehicle - Swiss funicular railway - Amazon Alexa blunders - using a wall as a sensor for Alexa - why Venus flytraps don't eat pollinators - viruses fall from the sky - using UV to nail pathogens - Arkady Babchenko fakes his own assassination - France's Spider-Man - THE ONION on amok GM tomato & taping over laptop camera - RFN for May

* MAY 2018

US Constitution (series) economic dislocation of globalization (series) ----- designer proteins against flu black holes of the galactic core & neutron-star collisions vaccines against drug resistance First Solar company AI in medicine universal health care prospects alternatives to passwords microcredit schemes to deal with climate change for developing countries attack on Syria - US-UK special relationship - Ireland drops repressive abortion laws - Reclaiming Jesus manifesto - new Chinese diesel-electric submarines - Bell tailsitter cargo drones - Vanilla VA001 endurance drone - 3D printing stainless steel - self-destructing electronics - enduring Roman concrete - asteroid Oumuamua - yeti turns out to be bear under genetic analysis - de-stinking livestock shelters - BLACK PANTHER Afro-futurism and economics - my day at the zoo - RFN for April

* APR 2018

US Constitution (series) economic dislocation of globalization (series) understanding AI (series) ----- 3D printing & smart construction EU GDPR ribosomes more diverse than thought warehouse / fulfillment center boom synesthesia global economics of iPhone smart speakers for medical care shift in basis of US power grid - pitfalls in Xi Jinping's centralization of power - Dutch challenged by Brexit - Emmanuel Macron in the USA - globalization hardly down and out - market surges followed by the fall - SACM & MSDM missiles - SHiELD laser development - Chinese drones in Mideast - Ferno IN/X stretcher system - supercomputer redesign of 777 wing - tougher dental fillings - using AI to probe brain operation - probing the cosmic microwave background - bed bugs like smelly laundry - Festo bionic robots - my Youtube music habit - RFN for March 2018

* MAR 2018

US Constitution (series) understanding AI (series) ----- robocars & moral quandaries Switzerland's Crypto Valley chemical synthesis grand plan USGOV versus Microsoft on data warrants rebuilding US nuclear arsenal blockchain and energy markets trying to suppress robocalls Amazon getting into healthcare - Xi Jinping, China's president for life - Putin the loser - SCOTUS addresses gerrymandering - LPRF tactical ballistic missile program - lidar for airliners to spot turbulence - guided 30-millimeter round - Falcon Heavy trial flight - Skype does encryption - optical neural networks - Amazon Alexa laughs at nothing - why poison frogs don't poison themselves - GM to produce nitrogen-fixing bacteria - surfboard fin sensor - ALIEN ZOO VR experience - fun with my XBOX 360 - replacing my toilet - RFN for February 2018

* FEB 2018

US Constitution (series) understanding AI (series) once & future Earth (series) ----- low-cost lidars AI in astronomy US infrastructure problems exaggerated NASA Earth science decadal survey Chinese citizens worry about online security low-orbit comsat networks robocars not imminent - Russia bogged down in Syria - Russian meddling in Western democracies - US-China relations getting confrontational - Xi Jinping as president for life - Amazon Go smart store - vehicle-to-vehicle communications & motorbikes - WindTree wind-turbine array - cockatoos master the key box - city trees tend to grow faster than rural trees - GM bananas against fungal disease - Hawaii missile alert - personal fun with BOINC ETC - RFN for January 2018

* JAN 2018

once & future Earth (series) understanding AI (series) ----- China's environmental push supersonic transport activity improving Africa's crops using rabies to treat brain cancer human bacteriophage phageome animals with no intestinal microbiome smarter robocars GRB capture by gravity-wave observatories using the microbiome for medicinal purposes - China unsettles the world - corporations go activist - Warren Buffett the optimist - Patria NEMO 120-mm container mortar - hybrid airliner power systems - flocks of smart munitions - impact of robot automation on jobs - Desktopography user interface - shopping cart for impaired kids - bacteria-laden kitchen sponges - why whales got so big - global impact of spiders - Thai scammer gets 13,275 years - year in review - RFN for December 2017
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* DEC 2017

once & future Earth (series) understanding AI (series) ----- New Zealand pest extermination effort Microsoft Sopris IOT security project bat 1K research effort Sweden uses data centers for heating Latin America loves aerial cablecars building to resist climate change disasters evidence of ongoing human evolution robot shuttle buses - public appreciates secret services - Brexit absurdities - absurdities of "buy local" - Lockheed Martin SR-72? - MBDA Enforcer small smart missile - new US grenade - cryptojacker websites to mine bitcoin - bitcoin is a power hog - Firefox Quantum - parrotlets suggest origins of flight - how ants build towers - how ladybugs pack their wings - flat-Earth rocketeer - Jimmy Kimmel asks for Hillary's impeachment - RFN for November 2017

* NOV 2017

once & future Earth (series) understanding AI (series) drones for Africa (series) South Africa against AIDS (series) ----- immunologists love hookworms coal is doomed printing artificial bones relocating Staten Islanders from rising seas child who shrugged off HIV giant wind megaturbines / oceanic wind turbines synthetic fraud Quantum Science Satellite in orbit - Zimbabwe coup - trade deals in progress (or not) - Bonn climate-change conference leaves US odd man out - IDAS sub-launched SAM - new Airbus airliner black box scheme - Sea Venom AKA ANL antiship missile - Skysats & Flock-Dove CubeSats - skyscraper forests for China - eagle-eye microlens system - CO2 as turbine working fluid - CO2 surge in 2016 - seafloor methane bubbles - planet X beyond Kuiper belt? - 2017 zoo photoshoot - RFN for October 2017

* OCT 2017

once & future Earth (series) South Africa versus AIDS (series) DNA mass storage (series) ----- drone control via cellphone network Apple iOS 11 security refinements greenhouse farming in Alaska fetal immune system first aid superkit European volcanic winter 822 CE apps for food stamps US fire season 2017 - Xi Jinping, world's most powerful man - US military involvement in Africa - sky-high asset prices - US Navy railgun research - use tablets instead of IFE on airliners - legal pushback on shrinking airliner seats - solar power for Puerto Rico? - China seeks dominance in EVs - mild hybrid cars - IUDs against HIV - evolution of dwarf chameleons - radar observations of mass insect migrations - Musk's rocketliner concept - summer trip to Spokane - RFN

* SEP 2017

once & future Earth (series) hunting for nukes (series) China's authoritarian internet (series) ----- commercial science ballooning Android Oreo security enhancements viruses as part of lichen symbiosis climate change & Hurricane Harvey disarming a supervolcano for green energy cyberwar diplomacy GTech FIDO program trains dogs to handle tech European healthcare systems - Merkel re-elected - Kurds vote for independence - US tax reform - C-130 Hercules updates - delivery trucks on trolley wires - Zelle payments app - pay-for-use pumps for Africa - watching plants grow under the microscope - ocean floor methane seeps don't necessarily reach the surface - phosphate mining threatens Chinese fossil site - arranged marriages game - total eclipse of 21 August 2017 - Trump Administration for August

* AUG 2017

once & future Earth (series) China's authoritarian internet (series) manufacturing reinvented (series) ----- AI models Tube navigation question of renewable future crocodile farming tracing neural paths of face recognition refinements in augmented reality robots not causing as much economic dislocation as feared automated supermarket checkouts not so much worry about evil AI FAA versus drones - Trump Administration not really so down on NAFTA - Brexit versus EU court - hard Brexit & unilateral trade actions - Airbus E-Fan - Thales Stratobus airship - wireless sensors for aircraft engines - Kenya issues bonds via cellphone - smarter Captchas - Eye Android case for iPhone - Europe gets more diligent on enforcing vaccines - TOPEX satellite SLR measurements off - metagenomics via mosquito traps - my new catalpa trees - my new Samsung washer & dryer - no thanks to internet advertisers - Trump at G20, flaming on CNN, ETC

* JUL 2017

once & future Earth (series) a world after oil (series) manufacturing reinvented (series) ----- unlimited combat armor Volvo goes electric yeasts, cacao, & coffee printers print tattle codes dental restorations as a global business UberAIR in progress India's biometrics quandary scrapping nuclear reactors - EU revival - NATO revival - Brexit going nowhere - antiship ATACMS - G-CLAW smart munition - antiship Hellfire - robocars watch the driver - automotive SmartDeviceLink - pinwheel centrifuge - 2D magnet - crypt keeper wasp parasite - Astronomy Rewind digitizes old astronomical imagery - BLOOM COUNTY revived - NASA pedophile slave colony on Mars? - RFN - personal misadventures online, turning to Twitter

* JUN 2017

world after oil (series) manufacturing reinvented (series) power grid development (series) Putin's Russia (series) ------ biologicals NASA NICER observatory aquaculture & biofuels pricing gene therapy treatments New Horizons probe to another KBO nanocar race green power in the US West - Merkel & Macron join hands on EU - rebuilding the euro - wars no longer profitable - Japan wants Aegis Ashore ABM, cruise missiles - Embry-Riddle hybrid turbo single? - Chinese PL-XX ultra-long-range AAM - tribo-electric wave power - Amazon Echo Show - solar panels pose challenges for firefighterss - red panda has thumb, too - red novas - universe has two trillion galaxies - Disney does STAR WARS, AVATAR - RFN

* MAY 2017

Putin's Russia (series) power grid development (series) ----- uncanny valley of the mind cassava improvements US government science budget mitochondrial genome puzzle GM for ant research aircraft made of adaptive voxels, Airbus Pop.up why crime is declining emulating indestructible insects rethinking snakebite antivenoms - Hassan Rouhani re-elected in Iran - Islamic State leaves behind booby traps - TPP going ahead without US - Republican civil war - no fast road to rebuilding US infrastructure - no fast road to fixing Dodd-Frank law - Obama's exit popularity compared - LANCE self-defense laser pod for tactical aircraft - Bodytrak soldier-monitoring earplug - Mattel Aristotle baby monitor - data security chip for cloud gadgets - China moving against VPNs - seahorse genome - 992 CE solar flares - cement absorbs some CO2 when drying - Ocean Sole of Kenya makes things with flip-flops - RFN - cutting down my ash trees with a chainsaw

* APR 2017

Putin's Russia (series) rethinking the FDA (series) ----- Ford Police Responder Hybrid cop car bumblebees solve puzzles rethinking chemical safety China's bikeshare mania entropy & complexity pot is big business C02 emissions from solar-cell fabrication Chinese LHAASO cosmic-ray observatory - Islamic State fighters bugging out - Trump Administration relaxing rules for drone strikes - relations between US and Mexico improving - flying older aircraft with robot pilots - Bell V-247 Vigilant tilt-rotor - Army M17 9-millimeter automatic pistol - new Android O OS - GR740 space-certified CPU - cryogenic energy storage in the UK - giant pouched rats help save pangolins - Pan-STARRS super sky map - smart soils to reinforce buildings - Canadian firm reprimanded for obtaining data from vibrators - RFN - had to kill off my ash trees

* MAR 2017

Putin's Russia (series) rethinking the FDA (series) mapping the brain (series) ----- DNA-assembled (pluripotent) molecular assemblies M-Pesa history progress towards quantum computers empty cities of China improved tomatoes continuing the TPP without the USA hunting for black holes India relies on biometric ID - new Russia protests - repercussions of assassination of Kim Jong Un - NATO 2% limit is not ironclad - no checking fares on mass transit - Nokia revives 3310 - Scrip electronic wallet - Lockheed Martin Nemesis missile - laser-guided ACERM mortar round - Iranian ekranoplane drone - drones for checking NYC underground steam system - automated toll systems - warming up cars - kids with HIV who don't get AIDS - methane concentration surging - tracking distribution of ants by genome - RFN

* FEB 2017

Putin's Russia (series) mapping the brain (series) unstoppable renewables (series) ----- EPA reviews auto emission standards ahead of Trump direct pay model for medical care protein structures from metagenomic studies Republicans versus ObamaCare cities versus air pollution manufacturing jobs in irreversible decline - Republican elder statesmen for carbon tax - Patricia Espinosa talks climate progress - US versus China on trade - high-risk pools for health insurance - Republicans being hammered on repealing ObamaCare - Mike Flynn booted from White House - MV-22 tanker - Airbus Vahana and Uber Elevate city flight connectivity programs - Iridium & SBIRS - Tesla Autopilot not responsible for fatal crash - design concepts of Charles Bombardier - meteorites pound the Moon regularly - cephalopods doing well while fish decline - blue leaves get extra efficiency - fake US embassy in Ghana - DSL problems and fake driver downloader - my Humane Society socks - Mark Hamill does Trump as the Joker - crawling through the mud in BCT - black humor sign of intelligence and balance

* JAN 2017

Putin's Russia (series) unstoppable renewables (series) last great road trip (series) ----- smaller human microbiome & history of microbiome rising seas threaten Trump Mar-a-lago resort eye of the chiton data-security nightmare life on brown dwarfs & life feeding on radiation HPV vaccine solar power for South Pacific islands trade protectionism illusion - Russian hacking of Sweden - Trans-Pacific Partnership Minus One - repealing ObamaCare - Theresa May opts for hard Brexit - Obama commutes Chelsea Manning sentence - Next-Generation Air Dominance fighter - surveillance payload for MQ-25 Stingray - air tanker with laser weapons - ISRO ResourceSat 2A - TanSat C02 mapper satellite - navigating the London Underground via AI - yeast-based milk substitute - shrimp substitute - Dragonfly 44 dark-matter galaxy - cryovolcano on Ceres - virus with black widow venom genes - 2016 in review - Christmas misadventures
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* DEC 2016

last great road trip (series) unstoppable renewables (series) solar-derived fuels (series) ------ anticipating bad vaccine reactions CYGNSS hurricane-hunter satellites sections of the Galaxy hostile to life mega-machines to simulate disasters downsides of human acquisition of fire wind turbines help keep farmers afloat decline of paper checks African / Guinean folk healers help formal medicine - Republican ABW tax plan - Trump on Mexico and Islamic terrorism - Brexit Leavers are sore winners - Boeing Spanwise Adaptive Wing (SAW) - SPIDER robot to check envelope of LMH-1 airship - Polish Pirania cruise missile - Chinese XPNAV satellite for pulsar navigation - Snap / Snapchat Specs video glasses - Nintendo Switch game console - Proterra Catalyst E2 electric bus - nova explosions between eruptions - humpback whales like to frustrate killer whales - wiring long-flying ocean seabirds to track ocean winds - day in Denver at the zoo and DIA - presidential election shock

* NOV 2016

last great road trip (series) blockchain (series) European Union (series) war against malaria (series) ------ air pollution in China & India digital signatures sorting through Hillary Clinton's emails research into decay of bodies printed electronics soil's immune system NSO Group progress towards understanding RNA world - Brexit & BoJo - Colombian peace treaty - Edward Snowden at dead end - Fury small smart munition - evolved Brimstone missile - 68 millimeter laser-guided rocket - robotaxis in Singapore - GPS coordinate adjustments in Australia - What3Words location system - agreement on controlling refrigerants - bee living on edge of volcano - cucumber mosaic virus makes tomatoes attractive to bees - 2016 election - consolidating my website, clearing references, & downplaying reviews

* OCT 2016

European Union (series) Cold War (series) 21st-century economics (series) war against malaria (series) ----- Gaia maps the skies eyebrow mites co-evolve with humans green freightships hardening NYC subways against flooding new PC adventures genomics of beer yeasts Chromebook emergence world getting hotter - Iraqi offensive on Mosul - Wikileaks and election follies - Airbus Zephyr long-endurance drones - laser weapons for AC-130 gunship - Arcturus JUMP 20 drone for Mexican Navy - OSIRIS-REx launched - Tiangong 2 launched - planar metalens - Light L16 digital camera - Ryobi garage-door opener - FDA bans anti-bacterial soaps - UN resolves to fight antibiotic resistance - French FRIPON meteor-tracking network - Fun.com superhero suits - headscarf emoji - BOINC revisited - LED bulbs for flashlights

* SEP 2016

Cold War (series) 21st-century economics (series) CRISPR-Cas9 excitement ----- MenAfriVac vaccine super-volcanos zika virus human intelligence evolved for child care robot trucks Brexit complications renewed Panama canal symbiotic relationships accelerate evolution - learning to live with terrorism - UNCLOS tribunal judgement on China applies to all - European Commission fines Apple on Ireland taxes - Edward Snowden back in the news - Carl Gustaf recoilless rifle for US Army - Israeli SkyGuard aerostats - Zapata flyboard - Quantum Science Satellite - MIT printable hydraulics - smartphone Universal Case System - Nintendo Classic Mini game system - electric brain stimulation over-hyped - new bacterial lab rat - bacterial with eye-like construction - Oamaru NZ steampunk celebration - manure pile fires - my BLU smartphone - Spokane fire

* AUG 2016

Cold War (series) CRISPR revolution (series) digital intelligence against terror (series) ------ last universal common ancestor revealed by genomics STELR turbojet difficulties with foreign aid trees give bats hollow spaces to roost maternal vaccines new brain map 2015 hottest year ever NASA work on nuclear thermal engines Allen Institute maps the brain - Trump on trade and NATO - Japan considering replacement of ASTRO-H / Hitomi satellite - Apple iOS 10 for iPhone - dual-camera smartphones - dual elevator system - videophones for prison - bee communications - urban moths adapting to light pollution - butterfly has 15 types of vision cells - Taiwan loves Hello Kitty - my ebooks have their critics

* JUL 2016

Cold War (series) digital intelligence against terror (series) artificial intelligence revolution (series) ----- evolution of cheese fungal microbiome US Senate passed GMO labeling bill 3D printing bridges & other structures Antarctic ozone hole on the fade lifespans of animals program to deal with antibiotic resistance 5G wireless revolution worries about methane leaks and climate change - China loses judgement in South China Sea tribunal - Iran nuclear deal losing ground - FBI dismisses charges against Hillary Clinton on emails - DARPA LightningStrike hybrid VTOL drone - APL underwater quadcopter - no great threat to air traffic from public drones - Swiss underground delivery system proposal - LEDs for growing marijuana - Mattel ThingMaker 3D printer - Greenpeace criticized for anti-GM stance - CO2 balance of plants not as strongly affected by temperature as thought - US National Microbiome Initiative - more on Brexit - my new SanDisk Clip Jam music player - finding anomalies in my website file lists

* JUN 2016

Cold War (series) artificial intelligence on the rise (series) Tambora catastrophe (series) ----- virtual reality revisited multilayered security tracking greenhouse gas emissions international rescue for hire organizations ongoing human evolution EV trash trucks and other large EVs coral reefs against global warming GM foods OK, with caveats - Iraqi Army retakes Fallujah - Britain takes the Brexit - clueless JASTA act - LMH-1 airship - AEGIS anti-missile system in Romania - MQ-25 Stingray drone - Goodyear Eagle-360 spherical tire - smart gas pedal - impact of sea-level rise - surplus gamma radiation from Galactic center via pulsars - Carrington electromagnetic event not as big as previously assumed - Trekonomics

* MAY 2016

Cold War (series) Tambora catastrophe (series) free trade dilemma (series) Apple wars (series) ----- micro-ecologies of the home corporate boom in artificial intelligence Evryscope & survey telescopes solar power in the developing world smart card buses in Rwanda 2-degree Celsius global warming limit arbitrary China's commitments to limit emissions not drastic bacterium with minimal genome - Obama versus Brexit - NATO versus Russia - Merkel versus Putin - Chinese Divine Eagle & Soar Dragon drones - scene recognition for JPADS guided cargo parachute - South Korean Korean Surface-to-Air Anti-Missile (K-SAAM) - Renault Twizy electric runabout - GM harvest car camera video for robocars - robocars versus snow - ants do have a bit of memory - hawk moths emit ultrasonic warning cries to bats - inventory of arthropods in the home - rethinking ebook effort

* APR 2016

Cold War (series) Apple versus FBI (series) ----- octopus & cat genomes deadly air pollution in the developing world robots do clothes USAF works toward hypersonic missile tiered pricing of expensive drugs in India climate change and the Earth in 10,000 years updating the US nuclear arsenal things looking up for electric vehicles - defense rapprochement between India and the USA - Africans not too worried about Panama Papers scandal - Obama's 50% approval rating - Chinese VD200 tailsitter drone - Dzyne rotorwing tailsitter drone - Japanese cops intercept rogue drones - ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter launched - ASTRO-X failure - Boeing microlattice - Eatsa robot restaurant - Gogoro electric scooter - roundworm infection improves fertility rates - flexibility of human brain development - improved organ-printing technology - April 1 climate-change hoax - using CCleaner & outsmarted by my microwave

* MAR 2016

Cold War (series) authoritarianism to democracy (series) natural food? (series) ----- NYC bans styrofoam MasterCard goes biometric conditional aid to the developing world bitcoin cracked lithium battery technology robocar business prospects naval laser renewable power grid Astro-H / Hitomi orbited - Obama in Cuba - Putin's military theatrics - no guns at GOP convention - Russian Nudol ASAT system - SM-3 Block 1b SAM - Northrop Grumman wins DARPA TERN drone project award - Sentinel 3A launched - CubeSat propulsion - ISRO launch ambitions - Chinese robot bus - Formula E electric-vehicle race - Toyota i-Road - cougar returning to the eastern US - kill switches for bio-engineered micro-organisms - pumpkins, gourds, & squash survived because of human cultivation - Big Bertha TBM getting unstuck under Seattle - getting my PCs to a common configuration - new furnace and water heater - mystery MasterCard draft resolved

* FEB 2016

Cold War (series) natural food? (series) ----- sensitive viral probe China & climate change Jell-O recipe light-connected processor rethinking car sales Jason-3 in orbit nanosat launch vehicles deep decarbonization - Apple refuses to crack iPhone - malign oil glut - Warren Buffett is upbeat about the future - latest US defense budget - new US ICBM? - F90 assault rifle for Australia - WFIRST IR space telescope - new Intel/Micron crosspoint memory - Samsung safety truck - brace to improve walking efficiency - coffee-borer beetle uses microbiome to neutralize caffeine - bees get off on caffeine fix - Stromectol against mosquitoes - shoveling snow in a T-rex costume - UK court says Kit-Kat format not a trademark - somebody raided my checking account - December lousy sales month for ebooks

* JAN 2016

Cold War (series) natural food? (series) future flight (series) ----- animal friendship quantum entanglement satellite tardigrades airport security as farce dark net pharmaceuticals DAMPE dark matter probe satellite Prakash gives sight to the congenitally blind Russian hackers - Russia suffering with energy market glut - Democrats won't dodge socialism - TriFan 600 private VTOL - EasyJet using quadcopters for airliner inspection - GE ATP Advanced Turboprop - NFL players get RFID wired - shootout in wireless recharging standards - 2nd-generation Moto 360 smartwatch - ant smells spoofed by slaver ants - ants versus parasitic fungi - ants for biological pest control in Asia - review of 2015 - video downloads, Christmas lights jam wi-fi
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[*] 2015 INDEX

* DEC 2015

Cold War (series) future flight 2015 (series) ----- multi-factor authentication farming in Africa viruses against cancer data anonymity termites progress against AIDS & staph vaccine Cretaceous climate Big Oil & climate change Obama Clean Power Plan revisited - Iraqi Army retakes Ramadi - China V Taiwan on re-unification - Venezuelan elections embarrass Maduro - US hostages in Iran get compensation - Perlan 2 stratospheric sailplane - DARPA Gremlin air-recovered drones - Insitu FLARES drone launch / recovery quadcopter - Super Strypi launch failure - ESA FLEX chlorophyll fluorescence mapper - Adobe Flash on the way out - DARPA does vacuum-tube electronic devices - Acer Revo Build Mini PC modular desktop - 2015 warmest year ever - energy from latrines in developing world - alarm calls form communications grapevine through the forest - Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade - household repair challenges

* NOV 2015

Cold War (series) green India (series) energy efficiency (series) ----- metagenomic analysis of sewage global anti-smoking efforts RNA folding game ecology of a warmer world Urban Skyways for drones nuclear waste disposal dashcams Iran's digital startups - polls show Islamic State with little support among Muslims - China becoming somewhat more diplomatic with neighbors - US campus-carry gun laws - Lockheed Martin LMH-1 airship - Lockheed Martin miniature hit-to-kill missile - Lockheed Martin RQ-X U-2 replacement - NASA working on space habitat module - phantom phone vibrations - fuel-cell urinals - resources from sludge - determining crowd size from cellphone data - evolutionary origins of mustards and related spices - giant shark of the Carboniferous - FlashAir card disappointment - saving SCIENCEMAG.org downloads to PDF via PDF995

* OCT 2015

Cold War (series) energy efficiency (series) air conditioning (series) ----- DNA loops (3D structure) Siri & other virtual assistants government hacking dealing with falling birth rates factoring Earth equivalents DOE energy report renewable energy in Africa bacteriophage metagenomics - Iranian challenges in implementing nuclear pact - Defense Secretary Ashton Carter & Obama defense thinking - House Speaker John Boehner deposed by Freedom Caucus - Northrop Grumman wins LRS-B contract - JAGM phase 1 in production - Facebook Aquila solar-powered drone - ISRO Astrosat launch - perovskite PV cells revisited - digital solar wi-fi palm trees in Dubai - companies obtaining unique domain names - pandas don't digest bamboo very well (need better microbiome) - lab rats demonstrate benevolence - Danes investigate porpoise sonar

* SEP 2015

Cold War (series) air conditioning (series) interrogation science (series) ------ Airbus ADELINE recoverable booster online advertising questioning patents hydropower opportunities in the USA ISS as cosmic ray observatory next-generation trucking Citibank climate-change report Ogallala aquifer drying up - more on Iran nuclear deal - Saudis sour on nuclear deal - squabbling with China over oceanic territory - fragmentation bombs replacing cluster bombs - reactive metal bombs - South Korean Hyunmu 2 tactical ballistic missile - eliminating reflections from through-glass photography - CrowdMed crowdsourced medical diagnostic website - VisualDX website for identifying unusual diseases - switching human genes for yeast genes - synthesizing opiates and textiles with yeasts - more on supermarket coupons

* AUG 2015

Cold War (series) new green revolution (series) chicken domestication (series) ------ gunfire location systems Ebola virus vaccine cleaning up tar sand oil extraction limitations of consciousness measles vaccine provides implicit protection against other diseases verification of Iran nuclear deal Obama Clean Power Plan Estonia prepares for digital assault -- Yanks and Briton take down train terrorist -- Republicans unlikely to derail Iran nuclear deal -- Obama visits Africa -- Western courts against Putin -- Russian jokers on laundry detergent -- DARPA TERN naval drone -- ONR Locust drone swarming tactics -- printed APU turbine -- Pluto flyby -- dubious EMDrive -- Amazon Echo -- navigation apps that work offline -- McDonald's McBike packaging -- mini ice age flap -- GM bacteriophages -- color-changing condoms against STDs -- constrictor snakes kill by giving victims cardiac overload -- bogus news content referral sites -- satisfactions with Amazon Kindle publishing -- dumping JFK ASSASSINATION document

* JUL 2015

Cold War (series) chicken domestication (series) China & the internet (series) ------ hype cycle 5G phones Kiribatis rising above climbing seas death sentences in the USA China in Africa more on turbochargers studies of robotaxi utility progress towards climate change pact - agreement on Iran nuclear program - less than meets the eye in French outrage over NSA spying - Adobe Flash on the skids - M City for testing robocars - smartphones as desktop replacements - DP-14 Hawk tandem-rotor drone - armed MV-22 Ospreys, MV-22 for Japan - OneWeb internet in the sky - MarCO CubeSats with Insight Mars lander - laser-based movie projectors - Terralux light fixtures with sensors & wireless links - issues with biometric ID - oldest fossil organisms? - chimp bones denser than human bones - underground magma chambers beneath Yellowstone - New Jersey clamps down on dead drivers - my new & improved ebook covers

* JUN 2015

Cold War (series) China & the internet (series) ------ OCO maps chlorophyll fluorescence LUVOIR super space telescope US healthcare fraud end of Moore's law revolutionary robocars USA Freedom Act space solar power no-stick coatings - SCOTUS on Obamacare revisited - SCOTUS on gay marriage - sagging confidence in religion - Frau Merkel's phone not being tapped - Pilatus PC-24 bizjet - EXACTO guided 12.7 millimeter round - French FELIN soldier combat system - PSAPs for the hard of hearing - Trakdot luggage tracker - LTE direct ad-hoc wireless networking - why fungi glow - mammoth genome decoded - Spokane road trip - book sales are seasonal

* MAY 2015

Cold War (series) China & the internet (series) chronic disease vaccines (series) ------ printing body parts Trans-Pacific Partnership deal peak copper production cancer vaccine progress methane as a vehicular fuel Chernobyl shelter stevia for colas the warming Arctic - Obama reassures Gulf Cooperation Council on Iran - Thomas Piketty raises a fuss about inequality - floods in Texas and Oklahoma - refinements in U-2 spyplane - ground-launched small diameter bomb - Chinese Blue Arrow missiles - torpor suspension for crewed Mars mission - Busbaar rapid electric bus recharger - ultraviolet LEDs - Android app for robot control - bats jam each other's sonar signals - is milk so wholesome? - single-use syringes - fake phone numbers in UK - getting a Funimation download contract

* APR 2015

Cold War (series) chronic disease vaccines (series) BRAIN initiative (series) post-revolutionary Iran (series) ------ factories for Africa experiments in cadaver decay plant communications dispute over next-generation refrigerants online book sales cheese microbiome global economic deflation MMS satellites in orbit - Ali Khamenei sounds off about Iran nuclear agreement - Ashraf Ghani visits Washington DC - Ted Cruz as demagogue - electric airplanes for basic flight training - FanWing flying container hauler - Archangel crop-duster turned close-support aircraft - Vulcan booster - USB-C / Power USB - canal revival in the UK - robocars in the UK - last winter warmest on record - mining human microbiome for antibiotics - HIV evolving into milder form - Putin disappears for ten days - Brik Case for MacBooks

* MAR 2015

Cold War (series) post-revolutionary Iran (series) ------ digital modeling of C. elegans metagenomic study of NYC subway stations problems with Chinese coal usage cyber war games ATM robberies in the UK authorities versus strong encryption poor public data in the developing world JAGM missile program zigs & zags - Islamic State's tide going out - Wikimedia sues NSA - Russia introduces new ICBMs - cosmonaut TOZ-82 / TP-82 survival weapon - Taiwanese TUO JIANG missile corvette - Stratolaunch Roc booster carrier & Thunderbolt booster - female mantises lure males to their doom - bird chick impersonates nasty caterpillar - concrete croutons to kill mosquito larvae - transparent solar cells for windows - bitcoin for currency transfers - ECONOMIST Big Mac Index - Warren Buffett lives on Coca-Cola - selling ebooks - shoving nickels into the supermarket checkout

* FEB 2015

Cold War (series) post-revolutionary Iran (series) ------ genome's defenses against transposons Gates Challenge reviewed Danish agritech Volvo turbocharged engines & FEDEX hybrid vans exploring Venus by airship US measles epidemic tight times in the defense industry Delphi and Audi work on robocars - contacts between Israel and Sunni Arab states on common enemies - Jihadi John tentatively identified - Rudi Giuliani goes off the deep end - USN decides LCS right tool for the job after all - GhostSwimmer shark robot - Krossblade SkyCruiser VTOL aircraft - SMAP satellite in orbit - Congress mandates no Russky engine - toy helicopters on Mars - Firefly small booster with aerospike engine - cockatoos learn tool-making from Figaro - blood comes in different colors - geophones pick up trains and aircraft from seismic vibrations - Saudi Arabia is internet-enabled - iPhone camera case with exchangeable lenses - hydraulic "hybrid" trash trucks in Loveland - public supports labeling that most want food labeled as having DNA - BostonYeti - getting into crunching out ebooks - marijuana business exemption in Colorado

* JAN 2015

Cold War (series) post-revolutionary Iran (series) worries about sugar (series) developing world economic boom over (series) ------ shopping mall healthcare clinics record high global temperature in 2014 construction in London dim prospects of global nuclear zero TEDAC bomb analysis center renewable energy increasingly competitive Colorado DOT clears the roads of snow anticipatory software & smartphones talk by vibrations - Iranian President Rouhani talks referendums - US not unhappy with Iranian military involvement in Iraq - Obama wants free community college - Gulfstream G500 & G600 bizjets - timed 40 millimeter grenade - new SSC hovercraft landing craft - Hayabusa 2 & CBERS 4 launched - TESS planet hunter satellite - giant Pelagornis bird - high concentrations of microplastic in sea ice - patterns in city layouts - Ingocraft 3D printed construction set - Thymio II educational robot - paper microscope - pump heat energy storage - my new Fire TV HDMI stick - scrounging a buck with supermarket sales - my Facebook account, big fat hairy deal
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[*] 2014 INDEX

* DEC 2014

190 illustrations for 2013 / 60 gvg ----- Cold War (series) developing world economic boom over (series) fecal transplants (series) ----- hopes for telemedicine analyzing medical records big business accepts carbon tax money giveaways for development Apple Pay Mercedes robo-truck dark net surface tension in biosystems Pentagon embraces climate change - France assertive on the foreign stage - Russians have the economic blues - Americans feeling upbeat about the economy - KF/X fighter - Australian CANBERRA heli-carrier - Iranian gatling cannon - exhaustive star survey - killer whales speak dolphin - population size needed for planetary colonization - internet of things standards consortiums - tobacco-based jet biofuels - beer pipeline - wild turkey comeback - my new microwave - US mid-term election results - USAF Museum hangar construction video updates

* NOV 2014

Cold War (series) Arizona road trip (series) ----- stellar synthesis of heavy elements & mysterious cosmic radio bursts NNT & NNH to characterize medical treatments ocean sunfish Sikorsky S-97 Raider rollout questions about electrical brain stimulation distributed electrical aircraft propulsion DARPA works on tech to fix brain damage satellite gravity maps reveal ocean floor - APEC environmental pact - Putin in the doghouse - gay rights revolution - Royal Navy on a roll - Iranian Khalij Fars antiship ballistic missile - bluetooth for airport navigation - US life expectancy - US vaccination statistics - United Airlines tracks micro animal collars - solar paving stones - dodgy cellphone location evidence - military cellphone location gear in use by law enforcement - US mid-term elections - flash memories now cheap & LED lamps arrived

* OCT 2014

Cold War (series) Arizona road trip (series) ----- transparent sea creatures NASA commercial crew capsules selected commercial hemp & GM bananas medications tailored to personal profiles streamlining genetic analysis for phylogeny most effective means of reducing emissions humanity's underground presence HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH - Xi Jinping as strong ruler - Hong Kong protester smartphones hacked - free community colleges? - watery ringwoodite deposits deep underground - Karakoram glaciers growing - Demodex mites - Israeli aerostats for surveillance - MBDA MMP anti-armor missile - imaginative approaches to economy-class airliner seating - Comet Siding Spring observed from Mars - Ebola vaccine production challenges - global population will continue to grow? - pygmy genome - iPhone 6 encryption & costs - healthcare providers data-mining clients - Amazon Prime music downloads

* SEP 2014

Cold War (series) Arizona road trip (series) ----- Smithsonian makes 3D models stochastic approach to climate modeling malware versus smartphones IBM TrueNorth neural chip concealed transportable weapon systems prospect of an end to AIDS pandemic helicopter carriers French interventions in Africa - use of SWIFT sanctions against Russia - India and Japan join hands against China - tunnels of Gaza - LRS-B is mystery jet? - Beech King Air funnies - domesticated rabbit genome - city lighting means birds tweet earlier - NASA Nimbus data used for climate studies - Nissan NV200 taxis for NYC - smart dog vests - common use of dual PCs - USA beyond peak gun - sesame crop in the South - monkey does selfie

* AUG 2014

Cold War (series) Arizona road trip (series) ----- identifying World War I remains rethinking the university re-inventing the train Ebola described triple star system Russian military reformed climate slowdown not as great as claimed dealing with mine pollution - US intervenes against ISIS in Iraq - Ukraine getting upper hand against rebels - Russia shuts down McDonald's - Dassault Falcon 8X bizjet - Harvest HAWK KC-130J gunship - forward-swept wing jetliner concept - new Russian Angara booster - anomalous supernova due to gravitational lensing - carnivorous sponges - autism fixed before birth - 3D printing of sugar confections - multicompiler against hackers - getting up to speed on Dropbox - David Duchovny gone viral in Russia - Amazon Prime video downloads - no Loveland floods this summer

* JUL 2014

Cold War (series) Arizona road trip (series) US foreign policy (series) ----- perovskite PV cells supercapacitors disclosure excess diffractive space telescopes hunt for dark energy Federal climate change assessment school lectures ineffective Alabama not ready for coastal surges ant swarm constructions, mosquitoes shrug off raindrop hits - Japan-Australia military cooperation - younger generation surprisingly conservative - Japanese ATD-X stealth fighter demonstrator - paratroopers use EMC2 wireless hub, US Navy uses NERDs e-readers - Triassic CO2 excess - bats use sonar calls with IFF - wild rodents like to use running wheels - who needs rear-view mirrors? - adding noise to electric vehicles for safety - Indian drivers like to have loud horns - Christianity & Islam co-exist in Sierra Leone - survey makes me out as center Left - digital music player for my car - using a towel as a desktop organizer

* JUN 2014

Cold War (series) US foreign policy (series) ----- smart cities actual utility of robot cars limited prospects for electric vehicles Triple-E super container ships human brain has been shrinking humans may not have killed off Pleistocene great beasts gene evolution international push towards English worries about Russian deliveries of gas - ISIS on the rampage in Iraq - Poles want stronger US position on Russia - Japan works toward more assertive defense posture - resurgence of activity in propfans - hybrid wing body cargolifter - drones down on the farm - plants can generate electrical signals - using antibodies for super light microscopes - loblolly pine genome - haptics to generate braille text - ExpandOS packing kit - Rolls-Royce pushes uncrewed cargo ships - more on mystery jet - dumping banner ads once and for all

* MAY 2014

Cold War (series) US foreign policy (series) ----- invention of 3M Post-it ARM processors smart pills thorium reactors motor rickshaws urban hunting in the USA providing assistance to bees taking a balanced view on climate - Russian meddling in east Ukraine - class-action suits overturned - gay rights in Mississippi - tracking airliners - high-power military lasers - Russian snark over space co-operation - rising waters threaten NASA facilities - China's jehol fossils - fossil whales - NB 508 sideways icebreaker - farmers worried about data collection - street lights with cellphone base stations - mystery jet over Amarillo - wireless keyboard and TV - threat of more floods in Loveland

* APR 2014

Cold War (series) US foreign policy (series) ----- Ara modular smartphone flavors and scents synthesized by yeast US East Coast slowly sinking into the Atlantic microbiome versus organism development UK and genetically modified foods danger Florida sinkholes ARES modular VTOL cargo drone microecologies of oceanic plastic particles biosphere under the seafloor - Russian aggression driving sanctions & US-Europe cooperation - HAV hybrid airship - LocataNet local positioning system, one-chip INS, enhanced LORAN - JAXA H-3 booster - microecology of 3-toed sloth - jumping spiders and weaver ants - hornworms use nicotine defense against spiders - Google works on contact-lens monitor for diabetics - Qatar greenhouse / desalinization system - FEMA Waffle House index - maker of homeopathics gets in trouble for using real medicine - medical conspiracies - my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ70 & foot problems

* MAR 2014

Cold War (series) US foreign policy (series) genomic analysis of ancient pathogens (series) ----- discreet Japanese building demolition the role of manufacturing in the 21st century expanding role of freeports wi-fi for mobile communications Missouri earthquakes Siri & talking personal assistants threat of sepsis DARPA XS-1 RLV program - Russian annexation of the Crimea - Gary Locke leaves China - bashing the rich - more work on jetliner truss-braced wings - Airbus E-Thrust hybrid airliner - single pilot airliners - ISS for Earth observations - USAF GSSAP space surveillance satellites - Korean researchers use oyster shells to clean up firing ranges - new Mars crater spotted by MRO - cyanobacteria produce mysterious nodules - SD1 robot sailboat - OpenTable for restaurant tab, cellphone app for Lebanon bomb alerts - paper bicycle helmet - more fun with video downloads - Vocaloid - copyright nick, had to stop posting wallpapers

* FEB 2014

Cold War (series) genomic analysis of ancient pathogens (series) ----- fungal & bacterial communications terrible traffic safety in developing world ripping off tax rebates Monsanto breeds improved vegetables advances in 3D printing in manufacturing things looking up in Iran more on bikeshare schemes the global meat production business - Supreme Court considering cases on patent trolling - guidelines for hiring ex-cons - changes in global organized crime - SPEAR 3 mini cruise missile - LG-1000 cargo glider - detector systems to prevent airliner taxiing accidents - ant cocoons - hot pepper plant genome - GM to save the chestnut tree - Doorbot smart doorbell - Urbee three-wheeler - end of Windows XP impacts bank ATMs - Middle Earth climate model - adventures in video downloading - TIME magazine liberal-conservative poll

* JAN 2014

Cold War (series) Hanford nuclear site cleanup (series) drug legalization measures (series) ----- planets of double suns historical survey of vaccine effectiveness in the US mag tape still going strong Obama announces changes at NSA insects as a food source joint military projects more expensive civilian drones six-year high schools - US not going to intervene in Iraq uprising - polls show Americans not so extreme - roundabouts popular around the world - augmented reality helmets for motorcyclists - smart vending machines - S-3 Viking may fly again - C-17Js to USCG - E-volo VC-200 electrocopter - NASA NEXT challenge to build smallsat launcher - FDA clamping down on antibacterial soaps and cleaners - efficient flight schemes of albatrosses - panda microbiome - online retailing in Nigeria - crowdsourcing maps in Kenyan slums - Phonebloks modular cellphone - my charge card got ripped off - converting video and MIDI files to audio - William Shakespeare's STAR WARS
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[*] 2013 INDEX

* DEC 2013

230 illustrations for 2013 / 53 gvg ----- Cold War (series) mass smallsat launches (series) Albuquerque road trip (series) ----- tracking housecats & cougar comeback a world full of cameras viruses co-opted for body defenses Chinese DF-21D antiship ballistic missile schistosomiasis vaccines robotic assistants Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in 21st century Bluetooth LE for micro-location - Federal budget deal - NSA PRISM legal challenges - zero-rupee notes - Iranian Sayyad-2 (SM-1) SAM - Dassault Falcon 5X - Singapore Air Lines ends A340 direct-to-NYC flights - MAVEN Mars orbiter launch - ESA commits to space X-ray telescope & gravity wave detector - Europe snubs Monsanto, mutation breeding OK - Seralini GM paper repudiated - ancient horse genome decoded - plastic-tube form arch bridges - accelerated bridge construction - cheap but good tablets on the pad - Thanksgiving & Hannukah, Earth in 75,000 - JFK assassination 50th BFD - 100 blog archives

* NOV 2013

Cold War (series) Albuquerque road trip (series) Africa in 21st century (series) ----- concerns over coastal flooding from climate change Power USB DARPA does advanced sensors oil fracking Red Queen's Race NASA running short on plutonium tablet computer wars 2013 New Horizons probe in rehearsal for Pluto flyby climate change slowdown, ice age simulation - preliminary agreement over Iranian nuclear program - Saudis thinking about the Bomb - gerrymandered districts not so safe - Boeing announces 777X - US Army JMR vertical-lift program - DARPA TERN naval drone program - ArduSats for space hobbyists - rough estimate of potential viral threats in other animals - Global Yield Gap Atlas - fluorescent silks - Russian reports of wi-fi malware in household appliances - Google / LG Nexus 5 smartphone with Android 4.4 / Kitkat - repair shops for smartphones, Apple closed garden policy - floating jellyfish chopper - MotoArt recycles aircraft assemblies into furnishings - baby in a bucket

* OCT 2013

Africa in 21st century (series) India as a military power (series) biofuel controversy (series) ----- quiet solar cycle US poison gas disposal difficulties evolutionary roots of opsin optical proteins Japan loses confidence in atomic power parasites manipulate their hosts outsourced construction techniques nanowire solar cells global fall in crime rates ESA GAIA sky mapper - US Army faced with cuts - US Supreme Court down on class-action suits - Pakistanis not entirely upset with drone strikes - Textron Scorpion light attack jet - DGEN small turbofans - overwing engine placement - LADEE Moon orbiter launch - SSTL X50 smallsat bus - murres trade off flying for swimming - camels out of control in Australia - giant African snails out of control in Florida - Canary wi-fi home security system - DOT study of wireless-enabled vehicles - Hankook i-Flex tubeless tire - Google Glass for industry - Red Cross calls for more responsible combat video games - Loveland floods - no skeptic's column

* SEP 2013

Africa in 21st century (series) biofuel controversy (series) ----- 3D printers for developing world latest IPCC report on climate change geothermal heat pumps in NYC dispersed power generation for India hunting down bogus pharmaceuticals liquefied natural gas aircraft oceanic fishing preserves NASA pursues commercial partnerships for lunar exploration - poor relations between US and Russia - better relations with Iran due to Hassan Rouhini - global increase in divorces a good thing - US-Japan military relief efforts good combat training, JMSDF IZUMO - liquor brewed from coffee grounds - UC Berkeley smart skin - automated parking garages - Powerbag backpack with battery & USB connections - Cubesat communications chokepoint - SmartSantander smart city effort - smart airline baggage tag - iPhone biology field stations - Atlas of Vertebrate Decay - harlequin ladybugs use bioweapons - nano-thermometer scheme - flying rods - summer Spokane trip, side jaunt to Idaho Falls - completing illustrations update

* AUG 2013

Africa in 21st century (series) bogus baghdad bomb detector (series) manufacturing robotics (series) ----- dual drug therapies don't always work economists once thought poverty was OK carrion flies for metagenomics & tracking down the TM6 bacteria 777 crash & flight safety history of shopping cart FISA secret court & broken security screening European Food Safety Agency EFSA digital education now coming of age - Obama Administration issues terror alert - Chinese government softening but still hard on dissidents - DNA fog ID system, RFID-tagged cash, labeling produce by laser - Ariane 6 booster, ESA IXV spaceplane, green thruster propellants - MERS-Cov from camels, ancient tiny primate - coelacanth & bladderwort genome - USA chemical industry booming due to natural gas rush - updating the ATM, sonic touchscreen stylus, tactile vision for the blind - car fixes, Civil War history update

* JUL 2013

waste management (series) manufacturing robotics (series) climate sensitivity downgraded (series) ----- smart grid for Bornholm Denmark eye tracking bitmessage NSA security extensions for Android Figaro the clever cockatoo does tools tracking your kids US government does tweets hauling oil by train crowdsourcing patent validation virtual humans for crash testing - businesses petition US government for slack on security regulations - proposals for tax reform - sequester not so bad after all - Bounce exploration ball - Ghostbusters Paranormal Blast smartphone game - my new air conditioner - detoxifying coffee grounds with GM bacteria - regulation of caffeinated drinks - Minerva telescope array for planet hunting - Color Craft paint marking technology - EasyJet works on volcanic ash detectors for airliners - using smartphones to monitor work conditions - personal misadventures in DSL debugging and replacing garbage disposal - sea lion performance at visit to the zoo

* JUN 2013

waste management (series) climate sensitivity downgraded (series) emerging viral threats (series) ----- data lockers retrenchment in green development jeans made with recycled plastic Ecologic paper bottles Xi Jinping's Chinese dream Brazil economic development in Africa US space increasingly interested in smallsats & cubesats industrial espionage location tracking for cowherds - Obama Adminstration scandals, PRISM - things not looking so bad - playing drums to hassle tax cheats in Bangalore - Arduino Esplora board - fire flashover detector - bug-eye camera - large asteroid flyby - genetic adaptations of dogs to digest starchy foods - cockroach evolving to avoid sweet poison baits - ultraviolet hospital room sanitizer - printed auto battery - next-generation Terrafugia flying car - smuggling of baby formula in China - mixed reviews on Flickr update - my trip through Salt Lake City was a bust

* MAY 2013

waste management (series) Iraq after America (series) CANYON SIGINT satellite program (series) ----- tastier tomatoes methane from manure fire-fighting robots robotics for oil wells complications with US food aid taxing internet sales 60 GHz wi-fi internet intellectual property feuding viral symbionts - Obama addresses global war on terror - China-India rivalry in Indian Ocean - California prison industries - fungus makes wildrye produce seeds not pollen - naked-eye Moon meteorite impact - dolphins name each other - OpenBeam maker kit - using contraceptives to control rat populations - NYC updates its payphone system - new Chinese booster family - UrtheCast space camera on ISS - microbiome studies with twins - Chelyabinsk meteor strike analysis - even climate skeptics believe preventive measures are prudent - DARPA works on foam to deal with internal bleeding - DARAP ACTUV robot subchaser - Japanese researchers develop quartz-slide long-term digital storage - Science As Art photos - urban coyotes and bears getting high

* APR 2013

San Diego road trip (series) CANYON SIGINT satellite program (series) slow change in North Korea (series) cars of the future (series) ----- casinos US taxes whale feces California flood consumer electronics in space Navy biofuel and renewables programs ID forgery gliders for space launch - Obama as centrist - Republicans for gay marriage & immigration reform - pocket lidar - power from body motions - self-powered heart pacemaker - tree rings suggest gamma-ray burst in 774:775 CE - medicinal maggots - scale insects adapting to warmer cities - GravityLite LED lamp - metamaterials microwave imager - airbags to protect pedestrians - chopsticks versus trees in China - Obama's Jedi mind-meld

* MAR 2013

San Diego road trip (series) cars of the future (series) China does space science (series) ----- oceans of Titan Great White Spot of Saturn Coke & Minute Maid orange juice, shipping wines in bulk bumblebee navigation skills improvements in machine language translation cross-laminated timber DARPA SEEME tactical reconnaissance satellite pandemics & mass gatherings cellphone bands nearing saturation - Obama in Israel - stronger US dollar - California repossesses firearms - active noise cancellation for car fuel economy - digital car transmissions driven by navigation system - robbers targeting smartphones - NEOSSat launched - pathogens found in antiseptics - bedbugs done in by deworming agents - glacier "mice" support mini-ecosystems - forensic use of fluctuations in mains power as a recordings marker - Spanish police bust online extortion ring - Russians fond of dashcams out of necessity - cattle being fed stale sweets - Pez dispenser mania - Flickr revival?

* FEB 2013

San Diego road trip (series) China does space science (series) history of magstrip cards (series) ----- tablet PCs for African education online ID schemes aerial cable cars for urban transport USA loves bikesharing DARPA working on bulletproof software efforts in India by FinalMile to change public attitudes use of phone time minutes as currency DARPA work on robot helicopter resupply new VXX presidential helicopter effort exploring other planets using remote virtual viewing - US budget dominated by entitlements - private security organization Typhon takes on pirates - Texas generous with people imprisoned wrongly - magnetic shielding for deep-space missions - Bigelow BEAM module for International Space Station - British government starts program to sequence 100,000 genomes - fairy wren uses songs to spot cuckoo nestlings - anorexic underground - microwave treatment to forestall moldy bread - Green Throttle pushes games for smartphones - Nvidia Shield Android-based gamebox - bus with inductive belly charger - White House petition to build Death Star - dropping out of online banner advertising - crackpots versus fringes on flags

* JAN 2013

San Diego road trip (series) history of magstrip cards (series) Bangladesh development (series) bioluminescent deep-sea organisms (series) ----- space nuclear reactor crazy 2012 weather doctors not needed so much any more Disney electronic ID scheme African mTrac cellphone health care network longer lives for humanity Starbucks does mobile payment Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system Iranians interested in Bitcoin digital money - life remain unpleasant in Iraq - Iran enthusiastic about ammunition sales and malware - China orders stops on yellow lights - metamaterial satellite TV antenna - robot lawnmowers - Honda VDP concept minicar - asteroid capture - moa genome analysis and decay of DNA - mitochrondrial DNA transplants - humans need cooking to keep brain working - Astronaut A4 milking machine - UPS hydraulic hybrid trucks - Motorola HC1 wearable computer - internet-enabled TV a nonstarter - feral pigs versus traffic in Texas - TSA staffers stealing iPads
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[*] 2012 INDEX

* DEC 2012

252 illustrations for 2012 / 17 gvg 1,250 from 2005 originally, reduced to 1,243 after update (under 1%) ----- San Diego road trip (series) torpedoes (series) bioluminescent deep-sea organisms (series) human microbiome (series) ----- seafloor mining 21st-century Mexico Minitel US oil boom bulk energy storage America's global drone war US military health care online voting - ObamaCare is on track - Robert Gates on Obama - no end of world after all - linear motors for airliner launch - LIM Motors C-1 electrobike - self-inflating tires - CHEOPS planet hunter - Global Precipitation Mission spacecraft - rabies survival - bacterial cultures against Clostridium difficile - oyster genome - license plate frame to spoof traffic cameras - wireless recharging standards contest - virtual sports events - petitions for secession - Furby rebooted - XKCD links to Air Vectors / WallBase

* NOV 2012

torpedoes (series) human microbiome (series) responsive space revisited (series) ----- manufacturing coming back to USA Seattle cop tweets / digital gear for convicts smart irrigation / multicropping open-source medtech Chinese fossil forest EcoATM for cellphone recycling techshops printed electronics - Obama reelection and agenda - FEMA on a roll - BUSINESSWEEK slaps global warming denialists - businesses in favor of diversity - smart highway - DeerDeter animal barrier system - OptiStruct for organic-like structural elements - hermit crabs judicious in modifying shells - ancient mites in amber - ladybugs sensitive to ant pheromones - underground coal gasification - low-cost maser - GoPro mini-videocam - voting & elections - Halloween - adding width & height to website

* OCT 2012

torpedoes (series) responsive space revisited (series) Chinese defense buildup (series) ----- dangers of derelict munitions dumps ultra-high performance concrete hospitals work to improve cleanliness collective memory of weaver ant colonies / superb ant sense of smell disability as a business opportunity revised thinking about origins of Earth's Moon new global brand names from developing economies quantum-dot display systems Getty Images dominates the photo licensing market - Iran under pressure from sanctions - TSA criticisms - Nafis the terrorist wannabee - mini-boom in power gas turbine sales - Gaze TV eye-tracking television prototype - QR codes not working all that well - improved Falcon 9 booster in the works - TARA Oceans plankton sampling voyage - genomic database of bacteria in foods - ant catalog with high-resolution imagery - LED lighting for space station - Ubi voice-oriented computer plugin for homes - coco controller gaming case for smartphones - Mickey Mouse crater on Mercury - doggy bags not global phenomenon

* SEP 2012

torpedoes (series) Chinese defense buildup (series) video games (series) ----- drones for logistics in Afghanistan AIDS in America global water supply African tech hubs & African banks John Deere exports farm tractors family planning for the developing world high-voltage transformers & power grid battery backup OTT smartphone apps - monitoring Chinese censorship - ease of setting up front companies - odds on 2012 presidential election - ENCODE fuss over junk DNA - Judy Mikovits throws in towel on XMRV-CFS link - Kepler space telescope observes stellar superflares - DARPA Phoenix program to recycle satellites - wiring cockroaches for rescue operations - DARPA program to fit container ships for humanitarian missions - Toys'R Us Tabeo kiddie tablet - chicken ILTV virus vaccines combine to form lethal strain - banana & tomato genomes - Spokane trip in summer of drought and fire - my new Canon Powershot camera - completed Flickr uploads

* AUG 2012

torpedoes (series) video games (series) understanding crowds (series) ----- proliferation of synthetic drugs using bacteria to synthesize scents and flavors community colleges medical pricing quandary Paralympics bluetooth-enables shoes for the blind enhanced e-books Readyset power module for the developing world emergence of land plants may have led to ice ages Olympics not necessarily good business proposition - SwissCare & ObamaCare - resurgence of militia extremism in the USA - US population growth slows due to recession - near-field tags - Pebble smartwatch - using incentives to reduce traffic congestion - NASA INSIGHT Mars lander approved - NRO gives NASA spare reconnaissance satellite mirrors - tricks of squid camouflage techniques - vampire spiders of Kenya - PARANORMAN stop-motion animation leverages off 3D printing - Joshua Silver's user-configurable eyeglasses - solid-state vacuum nanotubes - crabapples biggest element of domestic apple genome - overuse of deworming agents leading to worm resistance - ichthyosaurs suffered from the bends - cows raised on wine - my new Canon SX40 ZS camera - using AdBrite to frustrate scammers

* JUL 2012

torpedoes (series) airlines pursue improvements (series) understanding crowds (series) rebuilding my websites (series) ----- software simulation of bacterial cell inventing materials by computer solar power in India "scratch-off" payment scheme for solar power in Africa the business of AIDS improvements in LED lighting insecticide-laden paints smart paints OTEC power revisited DARPA works to rebuild faces - economic optimism for the USA - Iranians stockpiling oil in tankers - document release from Osama bin Laden raid - Nokia feature phones - DARPA works on automating clothing production - drones acquiring smarts to recognize carrier-deck crew hand signals - insects breed on oceanic plastic shards - Japanese tree rings indicate energetic cosmic event in 774 CE - miniature mammoth from Crete - indoor dye-based photovoltaic cell - solar-diesel hybrid tactical power generator system - robotic Mansueto library - nasty 2012 fire season in Colorado

* JUN 2012

airlines pursue improvements (series) rebuilding my websites (series) ----- Aerovironment as a defense contractor tracing Chinese history via names banana distribution business pop-up microfabrication some businesses enthusiastic about recycling wireless-connected LED streetlights wireless-connected hand pumps for Africa measles versus Europe Global Zero revisted - ObamaCare passes Supreme Court - Flame malware plagues Iran - China's embarrassment from Chen Guangcheng - UK Biobank - rise of resistant malarial strains - fungus parasitizing ant parasite fungus - Leap Motion gesture recognition module - Nike Flyknit lightweight shoe - replaced my refrigerator - Toxoplasma parasites against Alzheimer's - all domesticated cattle descended from single herd - primeval Scandinavian forest remnants detected genomically - Turks worry about Israeli spy birds - TWITZ cartoons - adding artwork

* MAY 2012

airlines pursue improvements (series) genomics sleuthing (series) slime molds (series) animal robots (series) ----- store labels on a roll ObamaCare already having results a little dirt helps the immune system North Korea's prison camp system hybrid vehicles using flywheels dying words and changing usages using paper to make biomedical tests using cheap phones to support data services Africa plagued by e-waste World Cleanup Day - Obama as war leader - fracking for natural gas not catching on overseas - China's Weibo toes the line - Scoot Networks scooter service for San Francisco - tablet computers left on airliners - difficulties with automated blind systems - North Korea blows another satellite launch - liquid boosters for the Space Launch System - ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft - human kids superior to apes in sociability tests - deeply buried provirus codes in the mammal genome - Asian carp making a nuisance of themselves in the US Midwest - Facebook pays hackers to find bugs in the system - California radar system to handle traffic lights for cyclists - structural batteries - Ai Weiwei watches himself for state security

* APR 2012

genomic sleuthing (series) animal robots (series) natural gas revolution (series) ----- bottom of pyramid business overstated gorilla and bear genomes polypill Europe buying American trees for fuel auto radars trying to cut down on regulations mechanical analog computers problems with organic farming - difficulties in US-Brazil relations - Cameron endorses suspending sanctions on Myanmar - Chinese learning to dislike counterfeit products - drug implant device - bedbug traps - Asus modular tablet system - hosted government payloads on commercial spacecraft - Boeing BSS 702SP all-electric satellite - four layer retina gives jumping spiders good depth perception - fruit flies seek alcohol to poison parasitic wasp infections - hoverfly camouflage degrades in quality with size - BioDigital virtual body for dissections - Raven surgical robot - smartphones for location services inside stores and other facilities - digital assets becoming important in estate planning - Nevada Alien Cathouse - IP Relay scam

* MAR 2012

genomic sleuthing (series) future flight survey (series) natural gas revolution (series) DNA nanotech (series) ----- Project Baseline plant genome archive for evolutionary studies electric taxi system for jetliners container ship ELEONORA MAERSK challenges to the cacao / chocolate industry diversity of spiders & fossil daddy-longlegs Orion space capsule in development progress in algae-based biofuels, seaweed biofuels, and Brazil ethanol India Universal ID scheme in progress - Cameron visits Obama at the White House - Pentagon not too worried about Chinese defense spending - Myanmar seeks reform - palm-based biometric ID schemes - Pentagon's FACE reusable software standard initiative - NASA smartphone-based ground avoidance system - R2D2 cart for disable kid - DARPA SEEME satellite effort - fossil feathers in amber - giant fossil fleas - astronomy in Canadian Far North - Philcoxia, a predatory plant that feeds on nematode worms - microbial fuel cells for planetary mini-rovers - Kuala Lumpur pushes city wi-fi - orangutans like iPads - recycling surgical implants from the deceased - my name is Harvey, more illustrations for blog

* FEB 2012

future flight survey (series) DNA nanotech (series) Iranian sabre-rattling (series) ----- human computing in the 21st century paper from elephant dung climate change as a political nonstarter origami engineering microfinance limitations & village savings and loan the war against cholera password limitations & games for login ID - Leon Panetta as defense secretary - the Birthers refuse to give up - anthrax vaccine trials for kids? - modified H5N1 bird flu strain that can be transmitted between mammals - networked cop car at CES - 3D cinema gone flat & MaxiVision48 for movies - Matias One Keyboard for PC and smartphone - drug-enhanced condom - XMRV link to CFS now formally rejected - spray-on skin for burn victims - brown marmorated stink bug as pest in the USA - post-it wars - fake charities calling me on the phone - backlogged on blog articles again

* JAN 2012

JFK assassination (series) future directions in aviation (series) dysfunctional California direct democracy (series) ----- recycling refrigerators winter cold snaps not incompatible with global warming bark and ambrosia beetles versus trees fecal transplants banning cars from city centers lithium mining in Bolivia product carbon footprinting scanning forests with lidar for carbon surveys Achaean impacts - Obama revives Teddy Roosevelt's Square Deal - calculating odds on presidential elections - logistics of US withdrawal from Iraq - multispectral scanner for examining old manuscripts - Tamaggo 360-degree camera - BookCrossing.org library for the world - South Korea space program - genomic analysis of horizontal gene transfers - partly restoring the Aral Sea - law enforcement in pursuit of ClimateGate hackers - shrimp farming - stretchy touch sensor - Amazon.com smart lockers - Alt/1977 realizations of 21st-century tech - adventures with LED Christmas lights
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[*] 2011 INDEX

* DEC 2011

244 illustrations for 2011 / 10 gvg ----- JFK assassination (series) antibiotic resistance (series) plant genomes (series) ----- LED lighting e-cigarette controversy new GP medical services models low-cost glasses quasicrystals artificial leaf plus polymer and paper solar cells drug shortages in USA shrinking icecaps loyalty cards as a global phenomenon - Moscow demonstrations - illegal immigration into USA on the decline - US states into lotteries to deal with budget shortfalls - modeling impact of modern Laki volcanic eruption - parasitic flies versus wasps - USAF RLV competition - contact memory buttons - helium shortages affect military balloons - US Postal Service threatened by secure email schemes - UC Berkeley climate study - tinkering with Wolbachia bacteria to control dengue - Seurat rendered in soft-drink cans - playing name games at McDonald's

* NOV 2011

JFK assassination (series) smart structures (series) food production for 9 billion (series) ----- laser enrichment of nuclear fuel USPS going broke Paris Autolib car networking scheme 3-cylinder piston engines flexible AC transmission for smart grids cancer screening questioned dust and climate change solar ultraviolet and climate change lunar X-prize using bacteria to refine ores obtaining metals from geothermal plants - US-Vietnam rapprochement - violence with information requests in India - campaign of sabotage against Iranian WMD program? - solar powered ferry for China - "super sand" for filtration system - using solar power for oil recovery - SpaceX reusable booster - fossil of precursor baleen whale - anger at CFS researchers - old newspapers as biofuel feedstock - solar power integrated into windows - set-top boxes as power hogs - STAR WARS dog for Halloween - total body eating - destructive early snowfall in Loveland - articles for blog piling up

* OCT 2011

JKF assassination (series) food production for 9 billion (series) ----- examining functionality of bacterial genome bacterial endosymbiosis in mealybugs silicon carbide for power electronics temporary halt in sea rise & shifting storm tracks e-books becoming popular & Amazon.com introduces Kindle Fire floating solar panels & Atacama solar power furor over HPV vaccine jute back in fashion satellite servicing programs - death of Qaddafi - Bodog sets odds on politicians - ObamaCare headed for Supreme Court - 747 SOFIA observatory tracks Pluto occultation - seedlessness in sugar apple and cherimoya - protofossils found in ancient Australian sandstones - GRAIL lunar gravity mappers launched - Chinese Tiangong 1 space station launched - UARS & ROSAT satellites fall to Earth - implantable wireless cancer tumor sensor - digital tattoos to help diabetics monitor blood glucose levels - "stick on" biomedical monitoring system - "smart bandages" that change colors - Winter the dolphin's prosthetic tail - bacteria digesting oceanic plastic? - breeding better bees to fight colony collapse disorder - arthropod genome initiative - fossil wasp larvae in dinosaur egg fossils - Milky Way Transit Authority map - getting out of online disputes - new Bravenet guestbook & video captchas

* SEP 2011

JFK assassination (series) food production for 9 billion (series) bioluminescence (series) ----- genetic analysis for tracking fisheries CIA as combat force Microsoft Computational Science Lab new Boeing 737 MAX jetliners electric vehicles for delivery fleets induction motors for electric vehicles reusing old drugs for new applications tablet computer wars in transition ESA Vega light booster - US mercenaries heavily employed in Iraq - Israel & Turkey getting along better than they sound - India & Bangladesh resolve border enclaves - Iranian authorities against water fights - 911 ten-year anniversary - adding touch to flat keyboards - Logitech solar wireless keyboard - waterless car washes - Fermes Lufa rooftop farms in Montreal - plesiosaur live birth - deep-underground nematodes - clams for tracking water pollution - LifePlayer digital music player for developing world - spectroscopic signatures to validate whiskey - Geo-Replicator system to reduce military networking bandwidth - DARPA backpack wireless transmission system - UFOs disguised as jetliners - Loveland helicopter formation flight - replaced my flooring - trip to Spokane, burned on hotels

* AUG 2011

JFK assassination (series) bioluminescence (series) history of multicore computing (series) ----- selling products in India Indians & the taxman 3D printing for manufacturing Archaean explosion bureaucracy of South Sudan statehood cargo theft DARPA battlefield medicine initiatives global vaccine more intelligent planetary rovers threat of fuel leaks from sunken vessels - McCain versus Tea Party Hobbits - Malthusians versus Conucopians - SULSA printed drone - intelligent robot pallets for cargolift aircraft - India's government uses Hotmail and Gmail - ARVs help prevent HIV infection - rose-ringed parakeets infest British cities - vine provides sonar beacons for pollinating bats - Army Marketplace military cellphone apps store - wireless-enabled inhalers to track asthma epidemiology - 3D printing of chocolates - MACON airship RC model - Lego Curiosity rover - watering my own lawn with graywater

* JUL 2011

JFK assassination (series) disease eradication (series) more than voice phone services for the developing world (series) ----- fake Chinese fossils the age of the Anthropocene evolution of shells and skeletons bottom of the pyramid economics in the USA NuSTAR X-ray satellite nuclear zero option more on machine vision taxing Amazon.com - regaining stolen loot from deposed dictators - gangsters into CD-DVD piracy - billions of dollars in unclaimed funds - tentacled snake - navigation of seals and rats via whiskers - plant that fakes fungal infection to attract fly pollinators - SAC-D launch - DMC-3 constellation - US government NSTIC security effort - LeapPad tablet PC for kids - growing mushrooms using disposable diapers - prinia bird frustrates nest parasite with variable egg colors - intracellular symbiosis in salamander eggs with algae - dry ice deposits on Mars - Airdrome Aeroplanes replicas - trashing my old backup CD-ROMs - setting up a Flickr account

* JUN 2011

JFK assassination (series) more than voice tech for developing world (series) difficulties with digital census (series) ----- incinerating trash with plasma torch to produce energy the peculiar gold business Canadian tar-sands oil Raytheon AT-6 light attack aircraft extracting water from fog reusing graywater inspecting the human virome maritime automatic identification system (AIS) software for electronic discovery and blocking cheats - Obama announces Afghanistan pullout - modifying bribery laws in India - rename al-Qaeda contest - cellphone charge card readers - Lumexis fiber-optic inflight entertainment system - Tobil Technology low-cost eye-tracking scheme - Word Lens instant sign translator for camera smartphones - Toshiba uSB Mobile portable display - Polaroid Instamatic camera tech lives on - NASA begins work on OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission - reducing cattle flatulence by diet - landfill methanogen identified - short sleepers are rare, sleep machismo isn't - NASA setting up automated system to track meteor trails - creating rival virus to keep HIV in check - preserving data from old physics experiments - getting by on vending machines in Nippon - schlocky $100 tablets already here - another Spokane trip, staying in better motels

* MAY 2011

JFK assassination (series) India development (series) ----- shoplifting as global issue radio astronomers against radio noise finding storage for genomic data diamond for quantum computing diminishing returns for supercomputing green funerals Juno Jupiter orbiter intestinal flora versus diet nuclear cleanup at Hanford dubious economics of nuclear power - Qaddafi weakening - ideas for taxes - the end of the world - printed battery - fast-recharge battery tech - Mantis LED lamp - China space station plans - bats find home in pitcher plants - bladderworts as predatory plants - metagenomic analysis of cow digestive organisms - DARPA investigates tactical nuclear reactors - DARPA investigates fuel-efficient gas turbines & energy storage - USMC embraces renewables, seeks APUs or wotnot for vehicles - obtaining water from exhaust of diesel vehicles - Kindle library program - amusing flash drives - iCade game system for iPad - tidying up passwords, power usage, and other picky stuff

* APR 2011

JFK assassination (series) EMBRAPA & Brazil farm boom (series) responsive space (series) ----- tilapia business high-tech vending machines bedbug resurgence renting out cloud-computing resources possible new resistant staph threat governmental reform in Mideast EVOFIT facial recognition system improved voice recognition tech tablet PC enthusiasm - Obama Birther controversy - General Maggie Woodward leads Libya strikes - Hydowatt of Italy obtains power from aqueducts - Bloom Energy fuel cell systems - Swedish virtual air traffic control tower - advanced washing machine from UK - SpaceX Dragon crewed space capsule & Falcon Heavy booster - decadal survey for space science - European cuckoos imitate sparrowhawks - gonorrhea bacterium has chunk of human DNA - plantago reverts to wind pollination - SkyTug airships - TI powerline inspection robot - RoboEarth online data sharing system for robots - Copehagen trash incinerator provides ski slope - converting MP3 files to MIDI - recording music off PC - conversions spreadsheet

* MAR 2011

JFK assassination (series) responsive space (series) nuclear insecurity (series) influenza (series) ----- Libya strike rebuilding Japan after quake evolution of the marsupials boom in rare earths mining city bicycle renting systems Supreme Court rules on vaccine case Nautilus-X space cruiser Microsoft Kinect gesture-recognition system a big hit Air Force finally selects new KC-46A tanker - Obama's Guantanamo quandary - India's ipaidabribe.com takes on corruption - hydroponic gardens for Antarctica and space - Manhattan Science Barge hydroponic garden - maglev tube delivery system - multiple historical surveys all show global warming - cuckoo nest parasites mimic host coloration - DARPA SCENICC soldier smart imaging system - blue agave biofuel - electronic glasses - OLED TV - Japan's hundred-yen shops - raising bugs as a food source - shuttle history release

* FEB 2011

JFK assassination (series) influenza (series) ----- bearded goby thrives in a dead sea UK trims back on packaging healthy vending artificial pancreas smart systems for battlefield surveillance USAF airship rising ocean acidity city of Kristianstad goes green wireless medicine - Libya uprising - Obama stimulus program - energetic activity in Crab Nebula - Stardust-NeXT revisits comet Tempel 1 - US peat moss all one geneline - Chinese Permian fossil bed - CommStellation comsat network - Liberty booster - California schools go solar - US Marines in Afghanistan go solar - what to do with leftover EV batteries - soot contribution to climate change - smart software to search for gravitational lensing - rinderpest eliminated - giving up on longhand - TRON / ALEGRIA - my new DVD player with memory

* JAN 2011

JFK assassination (series) war on the deficit (series) ----- Alzheimer's challenge Commodore 64 PC resurrected campaign against illegal logging copper theft dung beetles inspected assassin bugs raid spider webs South Africa gets serious about AIDS using probiotics to prevent pneumonia probing the virome GigaPans - the logic behind ObamaCare - smart vision / audio systems - smart police vision system to check license plates - tweeting by jurors disrupting trials - internet spam on the decline - Swarm magnetic mapping satellites - Orbital Taurus II booster - giant lungfish tooth - venomous dinosaur - mojosaurus ceratopsian - semi-solar-powered Oriental hornet - EMAV PRU diesel-powered hybrid trailer for electric vehicles - EU road train concept in development - acoustic landslide detection system - DIA conspiracy - my new Vizio LED TV
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[*] 2010 INDEX

* DEC 2010

188 illustrations for 2010 / 15 gvg ----- JFK assassination (series) summer Northwest road trip (series) Bangladesh braces for global warming (series) ----- energy for the developing world National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) reprogramming cells to behave like stem cells handheld blood testing unit Raman spectroscopy for medicine increasing prevalence of counterfeit drugs lack of morphine for Africans wind power on Indian reservations potential pollution reductions in China by cleaning coal the "uncanny valley" in robots and digitally-modeled humans - US healthcare industry backs ObamaCare - California state government reform - hive organization of trematodes / flukes - plants emit volatiles in response to caterpillar attacks - Harry Potter causes run on owls in India - the ruin of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN - fruit flies resist roundworms thanks to symbiotic bacteria - Chinese Tianhe-1A - Camioncyclette cargo bike - modern fallout shelters - hints that climate may have killed off Neanderthals - giant fossil penguin & stork - tiny frogs that live in pitcher plants - DARPA working on drugs for high-altitude acclimation - DARPA working on fast-reaction vaccines - Replenish refillable spray cleaner - Lovecraft versus insanely expensive audio cables - Apture bar, online flash games

* NOV 2010

JFK assassination (series) Bangladesh versus global warming (series) system updates revisited (series) ----- solar power from Stirling engines DNA drugs Japan sells products to the developing world cellphones from India's Micromax anomalous black hole and giant pulsar Triassic extinction hybridization reconsidered Richard T. Whitcomb AIDS in Russia - move to Right in midterm elections - California abandons gerrymandering - US farmers doing well these days - power from gases in Lake Kivu in Rwanda - regenerative braking system for Philadelphia's subways - forward air controllers getting direct control over strike platforms - chimps get wise to snare traps - lantern sharks use bioluminesence for camouflage - NIST experiment on general relativity - Egyptian crater found on Google Earth - EATR biomass energy robot - Nokia bicycle-powered cellphone charger - nanomotors driven by laser - power towers in the form of giants - bizarre CONTAINMENT Lego construction - crane suction gripper head - CD-ROM with games in cereal box & rise of store brands - updating reviews on website

* OCT 2010

JFK assassination (series) US fast rail versus freight rail (series) system updates revisited (series) ----- improving cassava as foodstuff overblown Arctic methane scare domesticating oysters spider silk from GM silkworms GM EN-V bubble cars digital biopsies Obama space plan finalized dining in space evolutionary adaptation to disease - turnover at Obama White House - Liu Xiaobo gets Nobel peace prize - Bangladeshis like paying taxes - stop soot to slow climate change - terror birds examined - radioactive German boars - laser pacemakers - vending machine video games - houses made of straw - wide variation in dog skull structures - antibiotic resistant bacteria help non-resistant siblings - bornavirus sequences common in human genome - Ig Nobel prizes - visit to RC aircraft show

* SEP 2010

JFK assassination (series) Boeing 787 Dreamliner & 747-8 (series) system update adventures (series) ----- CSI gives jurors unrealistic ideas about forensic science Volvox genome versus single-celled algae genome RoboBees cadavers in safety tests Dutch difficulties with Q fever cause of severe winter of 2009:2010 Belyaev's experiments in fox domestication swarm algorithms - Ahmadinejad hints that 911 was a government conspiracy - Hugo Chavez gets setback in Venezuelan parliamentary elections - Japan finds large numbers of centenarians unaccounted for - giant fossil soaring bird with toothed beak - details on behavioral effects of Toxoplasma parasite - cacao tree genome decoded - GOCE satellite problems - NASA Solar Probe Plus program - muscle degeneration in long-term spaceflight - mission to an asteroid - SpaceX promotes Mars mission - quantum dot camera - hydroponic grocery store - cleaning up marine diesels - Humane Reader electronic book for developing countries - wheat plant genome decoded - epidemiology of 1889 Russian flu pandemic - ancestral squid fossil discovered - ant traffic management - elderly scamsters - Chinook flyby - sleeping through warm summers

* AUG 2010

JFK assassination (series) system update adventures (series) Crystal Palace (series) ----- solar fuel synthesis poor countries with lots of disease obtain low IQ scores safety hazards of highly automated systems controversy over palm oil production fungicides lead to resistant fungal infections? US Army LEMV surveillance airship adjuvants explained Franklin Chang-Diaz and VASIMR rocket propulsion system - US combat forces out of Iraq - shaky Iraq oil business - election fever in Africa - vibrating automotive blind spot detection system & cars for the blind - MoveIt carton moving kit - microneedle hypodermic scheme - lithium / carbon nanotube battery - US weathersat politics - Galaxy 15 comsat goes rogue - cheapo TubeSat satellites - kudzu causes air pollution? - life in Trinidad hot asphalt lake - why early Earth didn't freeze over - origins of parking meter - blood bank for dogs in Madras - heart pacemakers for animals - USB mailbox and other silly tech gimmicks - creationist Granville Sewell's fantasy Earth simulation

* JUL 2010

JFK assassination (series) Crystal Palace (series) Ug99 mutant stem rust fungal plague (series) spring Northwest road trip (series) ----- Panasonic Fusion advanced airliner seat EADS hybrid helicopter DASH7 remote RFID communications scheme natural gas glut Despommiers on farm towers movie theater business booming thanks to 3D flics Snowball Earth scenario not popular US JPATS prisoner air transportation system Evil Overlord versus conspiracy theorists - joint US-ROK military exercises enrage North Korea - Russian imperial pretensions a sham - colored gloves aid gesture recognition - MIT invisible mouse gesture recognition - Lotus rebuilds Toyota Venza to cut a third of the weight - portable hydroponics farming unit - giant Britannia wind turbine - symbiosis between ants and acacias - CNES Picard satellite - Falcon 9 selected to orbit Iridium satellites - ISRO future plans - cucumber mosaic virus manipulates hosts to attract aphids - anoxic multicellular animals - low star-formation rates in galaxies due to central black holes - DARPA work on healing wounds without stitches - French research on regrowing teeth to get rid of cavities - SCRAM booze-detecting ankle bracelet - Shiva impact crater? - Win7 upgrade difficulties

* JUN 2010

JFK assassination (series) spring Northwest road trip (series) fight over global warming (series) ----- other diseases caused by prions? wireless power in theory and practice Earthscope / USArray geoscience network obtaining uranium from coal ash and seawater Moscow Mars mission simulation the difficulties with corruption NASA SOFIA flying observatory - G20 summit & deficit cutting - Chinese leadership not pushing "China Model" - crop yields boosted by symbiotic fungi - Homeland Security cellphone CB attack detection crowdsourcing scheme - BioLite advanced campstove - malevolent hacking into automotive digital systems - MusicLite wireless speaker / light - DNA extracted from ancient eggshells - worms make ant abdomen look like berry - tiny bubbles against global warming - China plants trees - STER UV water sterilizer - nanotube RFID tag - lidar sensor for wind turbines - radars tweaked to null out wind turbines - Nassim Haramein rethinks physics with solar stargate

* MAY 2010

JFK assassination (series) fight over global warming (series) ----- Monsanto revisited Eyjafjallajokull volcano eruption imaginary elements Beech King Air 350 in combat IAEA working on nuclear repository schemes truffles investigated firefly flashes ad-hoc wireless networks - David Cameron becomes PM - fuss over sinking of South Korean Navy corvette CHEONAN - Robert Gates plays hardball with the military - EADS competing in USAF tanker deal after all - US troops march in Moscow victory parade - new BXDL and IH-BD Blu-Ray disk formats - new scheme for recycling PET plastic with organic catalysts - Sony Dash programmable alarm clock - DARPA REPAIR brain implant program - USAF reusable booster system - 1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS camera - South Korean catamaran wind power generator - soccer ball to generate electricity - plant sociability - gene transfer in intestinal flora of Japanese - cellphone use reduces risk of Alzheimer's? - tetris as a means of reducing post-traumatic stress - Guild of Calamitous Intent - adding ALT text to website illustrations

* APR 2010

JFK assassination (series) the fight over global warming (series) Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty / CTBT verification schemes (series) ----- CDMS dark matter search India versus China as market for Western goods McDonald's in India periodic dimming of Epsilon Aurigae rogue brown dwarf star discovered product counterfeiting on the increase microbanking & microinsurance printing replacement organs aging in place at home Microsoft medical house-call scheme bias against girl babies & its effects - Eyjafjallajoekull volcano eruption - US reluctant to use force on Iran - Bangladesh newspapers reprint fake Moon landing hoax story - collapsing shipping container - US windpower map - micro-hydro technology - Obama clarifies space policy - Lockheed Martin revives Athena booster - Aussie stingless hive bees mummify intruders - sunflower plant genome being decoded - Foraminifera Sculpture Park in China - ancient giant pachycormid filter-feeding fish - NREL's lost algae samples - Infinite USB stackable connectors - EMP for punching holes in sheet metal - smart pill technology - dealing with frostbite - no taxes to pay - IMAX Hubble movie

* MAR 2010

JFK assassination (series) intracellular immune mechanisms (series) parasitic wasp genome (series) ----- history of the pacemaker silent mutations not so silent after all advances in optical metamaterials neural connectomics extensive amounts of computer code in cars Craig Venter focuses on algae biofuels & other biofuel efforts who needs democracy? Chagas disease and schistosomiasis carbon planets - national health care legislation passed - EADS drops out of USAF tanker race - Army bacteria-based water purification system - Mobile Digital TV - Empire State Building refurbished for energy efficiency - RFID scheme for tombstones - Iran presents Simorgh rocket - Globalstar offers science payload space on next-gen comsats - fossil bornavirus code found in human genome - symbiotic luminescent bacteria in bobtailed squid - Dark Energy Camera (DECAM) - Adobe Flash targeted by malware makers - gesture recognition for consumer gear - CO2 capture used to provide geothermal energy - self-climbing crane for wind turbines - puzzles about website traffic - low priority tasks at home

* FEB 2010

JFK assassination (series) phosphorus depletion & agriculture (series) domestication of the housecat (series) ----- the problem with state referendums chocolate instead of cocaine in Peru forecasting solar storms agricultural robots 3D printing systems Himalayan glaciers not melting? Deb Roy monitors his baby son to learn about language development Obama space plan ORS-1 reconnaissance satellite for field warfighters Northrop Grumman Hybrid Launch Vehicle (HLV) HIV resistant hosts - new Pluto images - XMRV apparently not linked to CFS - see-through Japanese goldfish - LADEE Moon orbiter - manned missions complementing robot missions - invisiblebracelet med ID scheme - RPI nanotube paper / cloth batteries - Swedish virtual autopsy system - thumb flash memory drives in the dry cleaners in the UK - hammerhead shark head supports 3D viewing - evolutionary specializations of raptor claws - corn genome decoded - buying a Blu-Ray player - site illustrations update complete - smart answers to dumb queries

* JAN 2010

JFK assassination (series) domestication of the housecat (series) evolution of nervous system (series) ----- OA-X light turboprop attack aircraft for USAF Scorpion small smart bomb power from sewage graphene electronics genome conservation apparently unrelated to function Chinese wind power Genome 10K plan to obtain 10,000 genomes schlock mockbuster movies antibiotic threat to our intestinal bacteria - AQAP and Guantanamo - US military TISC software in Haiti relief operation - Desertec Industrial Initiative for solar power from Africa - Siemens pursues offshore wind power - Philips tries to keep an edge in LED lighting - using mushrooms to grow biodegradable packing material - Virgin SpaceShipTwo LauncherOne - JAXA ASR booster - honeybees smarter than traditionally believed - deep-sea bone-eating worms - mining peridotite rocks to stop global warming - EU road train concept - AIDA dashboard robot - wi-fi on buses encouraging ridership - going overboard on BOINC - troubleshooting a plastic santa - Norway space spiral
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[*] 2009 INDEX

* DEC 2009

immune system (series) battlefield lasers (series) Southwest road trip (series) ----- infrared fluorescent proteins fake relics on eBay SMOS satellite digitizing old astronomical plates phytoplasmas ecstasy for PTSD sterilizing feral pets Big Pharma embraces generic drugs. - Copenhagen global warming conference - riots in Iran - China imprisons Liu Xiaobo - World Wide Lightning Location Network - giant pliosaur found in UK - filarial worms and symbiotic bacteria - CFS suspect identified - Iridium satellites to offer science payloads - innovative ideas in air transport - airlines and airports lag in recycling - power sockets with USB plugs - silkworm genome decoded - golden cloth made of spider silk - spider web in amber - vegetarian spider - Mythbusters at the White House - checking blog archives - David Icke

* NOV 2009

immune system (series) Southwest road trip (series) ----- Second Life disappointment falling global population growth farming mushrooms toxic risk assessment reconsidered Demand Media churns out cheap data biochar against global warming seabases biohacking - disappointing Obama, North Korea spats - Nissan EPORO fish schooling robots - MultiPlayer YouTube-like intelligence collection system - US Army PyTec waste-to-energy system - growing algae for biofuels in old mines - global temperatures flatlining for now - forams used to track climate data back 20 million years - automatic antibiotic tests with nematode worms - Rosetta comet probe makes last Earth flyby - ancient China bilaterian fossils - 2D barcodes for camera phones - Pirelli smart tire - shape memory alloys help accident-proof bridges - 911 truther annoyances, Twitter following picks up

* OCT 2009

parasites (series) Southwest road trip (series) NASA human spaceflight options (series) ----- Jill Price remembers all flu frenzy combined-effect EMP munitions bug spatters for metagenomics butterfly family tree self-powered electrical generators the science of bug stings e-waste calamity in China - US worries over Afghanistan, home-grown Islamic terrorism - spysat imagery for science - new tyrannosaurid fossil - new pterosaur fossil - muddled multitaskers - prepaid cards for relief in Pakistan - solar-powered satchel bags - SpeedWay electric car scheme - Spitzer IR satellite runs out of helium but keeps on ticking - pterosaur tracks discovered in France - microecologies of pitcher plants - updating blog archives, Twitterspamming

* SEP 2009

parasites (series) NASA human spaceflight options (series) HAARP (series) smart grids (series) ----- possible HIV vaccine P-8 Poseidon sub-hunter hydrogen fuel for cars examined carbon capture examined antibiotics maybe not toxins after all scrubbing systems against global warming Qaddafi survives and prospers the origins of photosynthesis - health-care politics, scaling back ABM deployment, Obama black ops - UK fire-fighting robots - gadgets based on paper and thermochromic ink - networked horn honking alarm system - 50th anniversary of 3-point seat belt - pea aphid genome decoded - artificial Golgi apparatus - linkages between organisms from North & South Poles - drug-dispensing contact lenses - scattering earthquake waves - Jedi lightsaber chopsticks - constructing 3D shapes with DNA - updating household flooring, adding pix to blog archives

* AUG 2009

parasites (series) smart grid (series) the origins of flowers (series) ----- wireless recharging global access to fresh water software agent groups SpaceX booster efforts next-generation ICs the Russian gas business geared turbofans terrorist Bryant Neal Vinas - Iraqis enthusiastic about security, light fighter effort, Yugosphers - USAF light fighter competition - the Yugosphere - tunicates as carbon sinks - jellyfish and ocean circulation - squid plague off San Diego - Bell hybrid tandem rotor VTOL - PANOPTES flat camera array - NIST memristor - Jupiter impact - blood fluke genomes decoded - water flea genome decoded - why the toucan has a big bill - organic foods not healthier - The 99, Twitterspam, Wings of Freedom, BOINC revisited

* JUL 2009

parasites (series) green military (series) ------ NASA-ESA collaboration in Jupiter exploration agricultural colonialism end of business-methods patents voice websites for illiterates via cellphones biodiesel from coffee grounds, duckweed biofuels, banana briquettes India national ID effort DARPA shape-shifting machinery effort fluctuating oil prices - Indonesia terror, F-22 production ended, New Jersey corruption scandal - broadband over power lines - wind power at Belgian Antarctic station - RFID tags for airline baggage tracking proven cost-effective - termite antibacterial saliva - X-raying for fossils in opaque amber - cosmic rays not responsible for global warming - millennial data-storage system using carbon nanotubes - virtual hospital on Second Life - V Communicator Mobile on iPods for the US military - freeze-dried rations with built-in water filter - dental plasma torch - WIRED Online blog gimmicks - organ transplants from murderers, car show, Batman Adventures

* JUN 2009

parasites (series) Russia in the 21st century (series) ----- new lightweight smart missiles smart infrastructure cellphones in prisons DNA from mammoths AQIM terrorists in North Africa hunting for dark matter high-altitude drone airships extreme pollinator adaptations vaccines and autism - Americans drop Iraq security, Iran elections, Japan weapon export ban - cellphone-based reward systems for taking medicines - GE micro-holographic disk mass storage - hybrid vehicles using compressed-air supercharging boost - survey of skin microorganisms - using dyes to mark cancer cells for surgery - recycling comsat dishes as radio telescopes - Burj Mubarak skyscraper - Honda walking assist systems - UK national surveillance TV network - dirt bike ambulances in the Sudan - local elk and auto classics, Americans watch 5 hours of TV a day

* MAY 2009

parasites (series) Russia in the 21st century (series) ----- elevators explained nanotube radio evolution and cooking sexting BWB cargolift aircraft business in Iraq observing worlds around distant stars FBI spyware - Sri Lanka crushes Tamil Tigers, North Korean nuke, Saberi released - quiet sun - mockingbird & rook intelligence - proto-seal - solar power car park - online wanted posters - building underground in Amsterdam - mine emergency communications system (plates and hammers) - view-master phased out - killing older mosquitoes to halt malaria - photosynthetic mollusc - Antarctic extremophiles - government gives away supercomputer time - Twitter, LegoToons

* APR 2009

parasites (series) evolution & information (series) smarter cars (series) smart bots for computer games (series) ------ Iranian leadership science instrument systems for ferries mainstream money laundering automated ocean oil platforms | Miniatur Wunderland train set Wired Gadget Lab gimmicks geothermal power in Africa's Rift Valley Future Combat System cancelled artificial proteins | sampling a fallen asteroid | parrot heroics runaway stars Bhopal disaster at 25 ADS-B machine vision apps tiny houses | 747 hostel | rotating structures USA Flight 1549 splashes into Hudson | getting caught up |personal stats

* MAR 2009

evolution & information (series) smart bots for computer games (series) North & South Korea (series) ----- cricket team attacked in Pakistan | ICC indicts Sudan boss GPS phone applications USAF X-37B spaceplane DARPA MEMS program genomic diversity of dogs | barreleyes & spookfish global domination of English better stoves for developing nations data mining futuristic German hotel | medical robot Minoru webcam | cutting drag of ocean vessels with bubble layer ESA Earth Explorer satellite mutant "fancy" goldfish. Spokane trip | COAL BLACK

* FEB 2009

North & South Korea (series) AIDS at 25 (series) dealing with IEDs (series) ----- Obama stimulus | Rachida Dati alternate Bibles Greenland glacier slowdown evolutionary computing hurricane curtains | self-cleaning drain demolishing buildings bottom-up | Dubai World Trade Center wind turbines feral hogs | pouched rats for hunting mines DARPA walking robots interfacing the brain to machines ASDE-X runway monitoring system electric airplane | nuclear reactor for the Moon presidential superphone George W. Bush's presidency reviewed Proboards message board | adding blog illustrations Philips DC185 bug | 1998 Disney FL trip

* JAN 2009

AIDS at 25 (series) CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (series) dealing with IEDs (series) China's global hunt for resources (series) ----- Obama inauguration & George Bush goes home | Sullenberger heroics the evolution of the Earth's minerals battlefield insect robots nervous optimism over Iraq cyberknife X-ray | rubber tank tracks Sansa clip music player | Philips digital boombox Energy Star questions Universal Bulletin Board Code solar power plants with hot salt storage green cities Army wall blast coverings | Brazil auto anti-theft | OOI ocean network military solar power satellites economic worries for 2009 McAfee Siteadvisor | clock screensaver on laptop
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[*] 2008 INDEX

* DEC 2008:

CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (series) China's global hunt for resources (series) new PC adventures (series) ----- tasers smell sensors Somali pirates KOMPROMAT.RU maintaining old tech cellphones & epidemiology agritech and Thanksgiving dinner Obama's challenge with Guantanamo video surveillance that reads minds electric trucks - Mumbai attacks, Israeli blitzes Gaza - Obama in the wings for the White House, Iran baffled by Obama win - single-seat tiltrotor aircraft - zeppelins for San Francisco tours - plastic refrigeration system - e-cigs - ADAS helicopter situational awareness system - carbon nanotube speakers - selling stuff through Amazon.com, Maschinen Krieger, Timecube

* NOV 2008:

CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (series) new PC adventures (series) ----- 4D flight trajectories Luke Skywalker prosthetic arm advice for aspiring scientific geniuses cruise ships multitouch touchscreen tech biofuels from algae shell shock reconsidered NLOS PAM precision strike system cosmetic medicine - Obama wins the election - water-cooled computer chips - MODERN MECHANIX website - fuel cells for tractor-trailer rigs - concrete that soaks up CO2 - Caltech digital microscope - finally got all my pix archived

* OCT 2008:

CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (series) new PC adventures (series) the war against al-Qaeda (series) ----- Bush II Administration learns from mistakes medical tourism on the rise steampunk amusements Brazilian ethanol solar superstorms Saudis against high oil prices troublesome classification of prokaryotes companies setting up their own clinics less to Russian assertiveness than meets the eye - Chavez makes trouble, global financial meltdown, racists and Obama - Go-Tag smart card tags - Micro 4/3 cameras - ice-pack vest for athletes - soccer ball Mars rover - Brazil wireless networks - electronic fencing systems for cattle - AIDS denialists, leet, Flip 3D

* SEP 2008:

DOCTOR TATIANA (series) the war against Islamic terrorism (series) ----- farming in skyscrapers more emphasis needed on energy efficiency fourth-generation cellphone systems intelligent surgical implants improved mosquito nets in-flight entertainment systems resistance against vaccination possible horizontal gene transfer in fish mysterious migraine headaches open-source hardware movement antennas for solar power - Zardari becomes PM in Pakistan, Pakistan bombings - McCain selects Palin, bad economic news - quiet electric cars threaten pedestrians - cable cars for London Olympics - skyscraper made of erector sets - graphics processor boards for home supercomputing - ultrafast USB 3.0 - dual trips to Spokane

* AUG 2008:

DOCTOR TATIANA (series) the war against Islamic terrorism (series) Florida road trip again (series) ----- genetically non-identical twins telemedicine keeping the Beijing Olympics fed ingenious small drones traffic control software & improved transmissions building up farming in Russia & US inner cities Bruce Ivins & anthrax terrorism difficulties with food aid new developments in airships the business of wind power in the USA cyber spies - election campaigning, Georgia versus Russia, Russians against US ABMs - Musharraf's hold on power weakening - electronic lockup for truants in Texas, international graffiti criminals - underground automated delivery system in Ruhr - more use of fingerprint ID systems - FBI computer forensics lab - Design Against Crime Center at Saint Martin's College in London - nice day trip to Denver

* JUL 2008:

DOCTOR TATIANA (series) Florida road trip again (series) ----- CERN Large Hadron Collider online nuclear warhead reductions eco-friendly road-building runway foreign-object detection drugs to increase intelligence Flip video camera minimally invasive surgery expose on background-checks companies race to build computer data centers freeing Ingrid Betancourt pico-projector systems confusion over conservation policies - Sudan boss indicted, Israelis rattle sabre at Iran, Betancourt speaks - more USAF tanker troubles, US elections - Katrina Hodge, Brother Cesare - JPADS GPS-guided parachute system - Buffalo anti-mine vehicle - wetware networks - evolution insanity, banner ad and domain name scams

* JUN 2008

Yellowstone menace (series) Florida road trip again (series) ----- computer-aided fashion free-standing water turbines Naxalite rebels in India VOIP eavesdropping racial genomics Monsanto on a roll with GM crops Bluetooth surveyed Renault-Nissan plans for electric cars network distributed supercomputing rising oil prices new ideas for saving forests - Zimbabwe violence, overheated oil prices - conflict in Afghanistan, sudoku players in Aussie jury - drug-runner submersibles - companies subsidizing employee use of mass transit - Blu-Ray, who cares? - USB gadgets

* MAY 2008

Yellowstone menace (series) waste and recycling infrastructure (series) Florida road trip again (series) ----- math word problems a bad idea success of French TGV trains using online microcredit systems in-store advertising retreading tires for ore-hauler trucks printed microcircuit fabrication technology geothermal power from ordinary locations new defensive network for Manhattan quarreling over fatness solar variation versus climate change - Myanmar cyclone & China earthquake, Nuri al-Maliki - high oil prices, hundred-billion-dollar check - pepper-sized RFID chip - microchip product counterfeiting - Bum Bot bouncer - wider use of fingerprint ID systems - Lifestraw water purifier - power surges in turning fluorescent lamps on and off - restarting ANOTHER MONTH, Morton's demon

* APR 2008

shipping & waste disposal infrastructure (series) Florida road trip again (series) technology & government survey (series) ----- renewable energy in Germany hemispherectomies (removal of a brain hemisphere) city wi-fi sees some successes early electric bus fiasco squabble over unclaimed gift card money phone phreaking Aptera electric car freeconomics Boeing loses KC-45 tanker deal to EADS Airbus no more cheap food genetic ethnic tracing global struggle against smoking - Zimbabwe chaos, outgoing Bush Administration, Princess Di inquest - Canadian Dextre arm for International Space Station - gun-fired GPS ID unit for high-speed chases - wireless mousetrap - high-speed flash memory - wheelie shoes

* MAR 2008

shipping infrastructure (series) technology & government survey (series) Pacific coast road trip (series) ----- augmented reality systems Arab unhappiness consciousness examined (sort of) toilets for the developing world a short history of the census ethanol versus water supplies electric drive for ships and planes online games to do work using terrorists to fight terrorism solar America plan - Venezuela versus Colombia, Iraq invasion 5th anniversary - Sarkozy & Bruni in UK, Spitzer scandal, dumb whales - cellphone femtocells - Sensium chip for body patches - digital photo frames - Intel Tukwila quad-core CPU - Wii for physical therapy

* FEB 2008

aviation infrastructure (series) Pacific coast & Florida road trips (series) ----- the fall of the hunter-gatherers Nabaztag smart bunny Virgin's SpaceShipTwo commercial spacecraft smart TV systems in stores Lawrence Lessig crash-test dummies smart car electronic systems manned mission to an asteroid Toyota problems Blu-Ray wins the super-DVD wars - Castro retires, McCain nominated, Chavez gets sued and so does MSoft - parachute birdmen - BUG labs configurable system - Fentix Cube input device - marijuana vending machines - Japanese smart sheet for desktop power and communications hookup - flex electronic circuitry - LED lighting takes off

* JAN 2008

aviation infrastructure (series) Florida road trip (series) ----- relationships among the cat family materials harder than diamond potential nanotech health hazards US space exploration policy reconsidered huge extinct rodent free-space optical datalinks changes in car sales rivalry between the Bible & the Koran the disastrous eruption of Laki in 1783 obtaining methane from depleted oil fields with bacteria the organizational & financial challenge of developing video games evolution of pygmies - US primaries, Kenya riots, Jerome Kerviel scandal, Voytek the war bear - Bic micro fuel cells - mass storage servers for the home - new GM transmission for hybrid trucks - shoplifting gangs - military green power - solar-powered light-emitting fabric
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[*] 2007 INDEX

* DEC 2007

103 illustrations for 2007 / 16 gvg ----- bridge & tunnel infrastructure (series) Florida road trip (series) ----- tracking one's life online alien life-forms on Earth Monsanto wins big with genetically modified crops no drugs being developed for kids Chinese product piracy revisited open-source insurgency the Earth after humankind Guantanamo being phased out mysterious natural stone circles weak bite of the sabretooth tiger pollution from livestock wastes steampunk laptop - Chavez loses referendum, Putin man of the year - US intelligence report lifts Iran - Indian judge calls gods into court, second year of blog - flash card with wireless interface - electric power plug congestion - testing company for mobile phones - RTGs for remote locations

* NOV 2007

railroad, bridge & tunnel infrastructure (series) Florida road trip (series) ----- Danone bacterial biotech for yogurt FBI DCSNet wiretap system danger moose geoweb technology USA red tape Chinese clone manufacture improved oil platforms warning schemes for nuclear depositories wind-based power networking India's railroads Chinese military buildup Alex the genius African grey parrot - added news summary, trouble in Pakistan, troop surge working maybe - Democrats running for office, Sarkozy gets tough with strikers - King of Spain tells Chavez to shut up, Aussi election pranks - Dutch hybrid buses - military solar power satellites - ceramic / microwave light source

* OCT 2007

railroad infrastructure (series) Florida road trip (series) ----- Chinese corpse brides African micro-hydro astronaut attitude problems natural house construction new San Francisco Bay Bridge algorithms as business tools the law & electronic discovery Ethiopian commodities exchange RFID introduction delayed Boeing 787 Dreamliner third-world economic benefits of cellphones shady DNA analysis by mail immobots Chick tracts - iridescent plastics - cellphones for kids - electronic RF sensor networks for conservation

* SEP 2007

railroad infrastructure (series) California road trip (series) ----- resurgence of dengue fever wind power in India medical potential of symbiotic bacteria personal rapid transport contention over North Pole's resources Virgin America review animal microtags KGB in charge of Russia cowbird protection racket name-analysis software for security tracing city population shifts through cellphones fuzzy memories Canon Powershot camera - standardized virtual online environments - low-light camera - TinWiki for the fringe

* AUG 2007

railroad and road infrastructure (series) California road trip (series) THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST (series) ----- home hybrid power-heating systems genetically modified mosquitos prenatal genetic testing controversy emissions trading controversy updating the Panama canal phone card ripoffs ICBMs for conventional strike personal supercomputing coin hoarding in India Alpine & Gibraltar tunnels user interface for XO computer forensic shoeprint analysis risks of being an archaeologist - using Wii with Second Life - recycled PCs for the developing world - McDonald's home delivery

* JUL 2007

road infrastructure (series) THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST (series) ----- Chinese social problems trees & global warming cybersafety rethought hemp for victory DNA analysis for conservation more on Second Life bogus statistical analysis in medicine money transfers for developing-world cellphone users carbon nanonets North Korean intranet vaccines against recreational drugs fuels from algae varmints in space - motion-sensitive cellphone games - reassembling shredded East German secret records - military casualty evacuation robot

* JUN 2007

communications infrastructure (series) THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST (series) ----- voice input on the rise Estonian oil shale Swiss bomb shelters smarter radiation therapy against cancer Google bashing Frananglais in Cameroons reviving the 1918 flu counterfeiting holographic seals gift card scams revisited Moscow casinos indirect tests for drugs eyeglasses for poor countries - solar powered system to convert CO2 to O2 and CO - automotive box that tracks car payments and shuts down delinquents - fast rail for China

* MAY 2007

communications infrastructure (series) THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST (series) ----- XO security systems domain-tasting scams local money in Germany biofuel versus food mediation services cellulosic ethanol considered neglected tropical diseases surrogate reproduction recycling paper Marine space assault vehicles medical ID theft nonobviousness & patents ultracheap cars tort reform in US states - Jott service for transcribing cellphone messages - Mexican digital education systems - Venezuelan police using drone blimps to fight crime - toroidal robot propulsion - microtech sensor based on diatom skeleton

* APR 2007

power grid infrastructure (series) THE MAKING OF THE FITTEST (series) ----- radiation therapy versus the war on terror indian tribes rising reliable replacement warhead cheap inhalers for administering drugs questionable food activism sudden infant death syndrome artificial sweeteners national driver's license format controversy machine translation techniques proxy servers versus censors geo-engineering against global warming fake priests in Japan Kennedy assassination - R2D2 mailboxes - RFID system for boating anchorages - LED toys

* MAR 2007

power grid infrastructure (series) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (series) short history of wheat (series) ----- future cellphones RFID tagging luggage Chinese sweatshop practices Boeing versus Airbus ethanol in Latin America Bigelow commercial space station cheating with online scoring systems using the internet in Baghdad improved geothermal energy technology modular home construction art of bribery space pen myth - wind turbines between highway lanes - energy from trash for military forces in the field - web browsers with phishing scam alerts

* FEB 2007

power grid infrastructure (series) short history of wheat (series) gene chips (series) ----- MySpace fakery Hillary for president ZUMWALT destroyer global warming lawsuits pythons in Florida automotive black boxes Iranian oil drought traffic roundabouts in Canada tracking spam 21CN for the UK - iPod vending machines - reverse vending machines (recycling machines) - FreeAgent pocket USB disk drives - emulators and replicas for antique computers - bizarre warning labels, THE HIGH CRUSADE

* JAN 2007

power plant infrastructure (series) medical infosystems (series) PC interfaces & networking (series) ----- clean coal Randi challenge money cards green business bubble modifying intestinal flora future energy tech online jihadism Japanese balloon maker Bell Labs fumbled the microchip new Yaris Airborne quackery recycling airliners emerging economies - Japanese experimental wireless rechargers - flash-aided hard drives, quad-core CPUs - Google solar power system - iron oxide panels to electrolze water - Kansas bans evolution
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[*] 2006 INDEX

* DEC 2006

126 illustrations for 2006 / 23 gvg ----- power plant infrastructure (series) PC interfaces & networking (series) climate change survey (series) ----- click fraud details North Korean nuclear dud power from trash high-tech concrete Second Life virtual environment cellphone malware hydraulic hybrid vehicles US population reaches 300 million LED lighting for developing countries Earth's shifty magnetic field industrial recycling - using viruses for nanofabrication - Universal Control System virtual environment for drone piloting - GamePark grow-your-own videogame system - digital graffiti - laser etching of eggs - skeletons of cartoon characters - fancy Japanese wave interference tank, laser mouse & other gadgets

* NOV 2006

oil & gas infrastructure (series) climate change survey (series) another road trip (series) ----- brain games Orion space capsule extended warranties store security systems ZigBee home networks H2S doomsday AIDS in the USA business investment in Africa fraud-spotting software green building certification cybercrime foot soldiers electronic textbooks six word stories - ball-mounted robot - snake robots - 4D flight planning system - wireless sensor network in the UK - Segway scooters - blog a year down the road, bogus scientific arguments

* OCT 2006

oil & gas infrastructure (series) another road trip (series) ----- fisheries quota system THE ONION Sunni versus Shiite in Iraq 100 MPG cars Africa@Home network the problem with NOCs deep oil wells Chinese ecopolis energetic Amazon.com alternative computing for the developing world Russian building boom declining Russian population palm oil biodiesel falling oil prices optimistic Iran - fog-producing burglar alarm - Dutch superbus concept - microreformer to convert methanol to hydrogen for micro fuel cells - Internet Explorer 7 - changing fonts & colors on website, recycling STAR TREK, 911 debunking

* SEP 2006

farming infrastructure (series) Operation MUSKETEER (series) genetic toolkits (series) ----- ISS progress defense contractors and Iraq ethanol considered Athabasca tar sands crooks against car security systems robot surgeons Freedom tower 911 conspiracies smart buildings fighting AIDS London Ring Of Steel Moscow spammer GI blogs - ruggedized Hitachi disk drives - Babbage engine made from Lego - wireless USB - photo archive, vote-smart, ZOG

* AUG 2006

food & farming infrastructure (series) a history of PET (series) enduring skyscrapers (series) ----- potential return of bacteriophage therapy arctic seed repository Indian call centers corporate nurses 747 fire tanker Pluto demoted sleazy adware companies inside-out surgery electronic ICUs pachislots war in Lebanon nano-rolls reformed Veteran's Administration intestinal bacteria web-based microfinancing greenery in China - rotokites for wind power - termites help make cellulosic ethanol - using pedestrian traffic to generate energy - thermoelectric conversion systems for autos - superconducting power grid

* JUL 2006

waterworks infrastructure (series) a history of the slide rule (series) another road trip (series) ----- Texas wind power extreme weight measurement internet server farms smart space probes games on cellphones shrewd Hugo Chavez Russian Moon probes cellphones in Africa ID theft exaggerated air traffic control controversy SOP superchips Japanese assertiveness electricity-producing bacteria - cargo loader system for 747 large cargo carrier - Japanese phones with breathanalyzer - solar-electric generator for developing world - sudoku

* JUN 2006

mining & waterworks infrastructure (series) another road trip (series) alternative fuels compared (series) ----- Orbital Express space mission holographic solar concentrators combat armor changes in US War on Terror policies new digital camera features gas prices Chornobyl disaster at 20 automotive thermophotovoltaic systems saving power in NYC medical cost-effectiveness death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq self-powered sensors smart sensors synthetic diamonds changes in Saudi society voice-activated laptops for recuperating GIs - fun with C programming

* MAY 2006

mining infrastructure (series) alternative fuels compared (series) bringing tyrants to justice (series) ----- dot xxx domains intimidation cyberscams Three Gorges dam biology modeling language barcoding nature advertising & Tivo flash memory & flash environments bear mutts $100 laptop disease mongering American Airlines North Korean & Chinese authoritarianism San Francisco versus earthquakes pricetag for Iraq energy availability power from manure - built-in tire gauges - wings for skydivers - using zinc oxide nanowires to generate power - using titanium dioxide nanotubes to produce hydrogen from sunpower - physics modeling chips - my new car, fun with business cards

* APR 2006

mining infrastructure (series) short history of life (series) welcome to 2006 (series) ----- universal vaccines against flu cancer vaccines recycling PCs 747 homestead Fibonacci poems COSMIC satellites Hofstader's paranoid style essay lawn GM green tags urban gaming mandarin & panda diplomacy implantable RFID cosmic rays versus astronauts methane hydrates microdrives getting scammed by ISPs - concrete bridge with plastic reinforcements - self-powered backpack - gold nanoparticles to detect toxins and pathogens

* MAR 2006

short history of life (series) welcome to 2006 (series) battle for global health (series) ----- video placeshifting caller ID abuse solar concentrator blinds pet gene analysis Denmark governs with the web responsive space tidal & wave power vertical wind turbines consumer product standby power TAML synthetic catalysts gold as medicine web-based microfinancing secret Lockheed airship infrared imagers for cars regenerative automotive systems nanocars brain implants Russian consumerism Canadian butter wars - 802.11n wi-fi - Excalibur home game console - USB flash memory drives - dry urinals

* FEB 2006

short history of life (series) battle for global health (series) renewable energy excitement (series) ----- Coast to Coast AM New York organleggers virtual human models resurrecting the thylacine modern trains smart trash recycling breaking up ice jams navsat traffic monitoring micro-windpower near-field datacom lingering worries about prions medical lawsuits overblown robot military vehicles Russia versus NGOs hard and soft diplomacy against Iran - electronics for toddlers - unusual advertising venues - improved product coatings - quick kill system - Jim Gary scrap dinosaurs - robot rebellion - phishing scams - fake eBay page scam, misadventures with digital music

* JAN 2006

short history of life (series) Dawkins' THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (series) digital broadcast TV arriving (series) Delgado's brain implants (series) ----- The Movies machinima terrorist threat to chemical plants Chinese net censorship C.K. Prahalad's economic ideas backhoe threat to fiber-optic lines military blogs e-gold troubles junk patents US Army training grounds technology for old Japanese OLEDs click fraud tsunami alert system ultra-tech Smartwrap house medical malpractice lawsuits political issues over vaccine production gift card scams fun and games with product rebates - virtual conferencing systems - space Learjet - Electroplankon digital environment - microdot ID systems - shatterproof Xmas ornaments, Xmas visit to DIA
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[*] 2005 INDEX

* DEC 2005

49 illustrations for 2005 / 2 gvg ----- Dawkins' THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (series) smart sensor networks (series) a history of barbed wire (series) ----- Arabs less keen on terrorism Iraq elections possible exaggeration of flu scare robot surgery oceanic oil rigs & nodding donkey pumps clean coal a colder Europe shifting magnetic poles adjusting years with seconds terrorism as a business Iraq exit super container ships Detroit seeks energy-efficient cars Brazil's EMBRAER airliner defensive systems UN relief needs money businesslike NGOs estimates of oil peak - US military greenery - Kinkajou projector for developing world - education by podcast - checking for duplicate words

* NOV 2005

Dawkins' THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (series) IGLOO WHITE program (series) black death (series) ----- McCain blasts Bush II Administration return of aggressor squadrons Ahmadinejad blasts Israel Bill Buckley turns 80 France & US get along Japan likes robots machinima videos airlines on the upswing terrorist finance tracking fiasco CIA extraordinary rendition antibiotic-resistant staph crossbar nanocomputing arranged marriages online Charity Navigator H5N1 flu precautions Transdimensional - Indian Ocean tsunami defense network - spam blogs - peanut butter for developing world - my own blog

* OCT 2005:

Dawkins' THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (series) Black Death (series) resurgent volcanic caldera (series) global water supply (series) ----- 1918 flu deciphered figuring out crowd crush supercapacitors banana horticulture battle of Palmdale 1956 Afghan opium virtual machines against digital decay Japans rises Democrats be careful underground coal fires London Underground map Dick Feynman Bretz floods suburban wildlife problems

* SEP 2005:

global water supply (series) Reagan war on terror (series) internet-scale operating system (series) Norden & Sperry bombsight (series) ----- voice-IP catching on storms and global warming ghost town at Chernobyl product lifecycle management biofuels reviewed advanced wristwatches the rise of hybrid autos LeTourneau's overland train US Air Force space warriors hyper-precise measurement 18th-century clockwork androids cranberry agriculture time spammer Robby Todino

* AUG 2005:

Ronald Reagan's war on terror (series) global oil business (series) Curta mechanical pocket calculator (series) ----- solar power potential computer games as advertising barcodes & cellphones malware for cellphones BAE Systems Wolfpack sensor network Tambora eruption of 1815 intelligent clothing fish farming cellphones for the developing world classic farm windmills chemtrail conspiracy the internet of machines and products bogus ABMT cancer therapy jetliners with robot pilots Russian problems with radioactive materials rejection haiku
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