I realized I don’t know what “fiber” really is! I was at a farmer’s market buying a few veggies for the week ahead, and while standing in line I was browsing my news feed, and came across an article about the amount of dietary fiber in…
An octopus has eight arms… Gloomy octopus. P/C John Turnbull…. and, even though it’s a mollusk, it doesn’t have a shell. They do have a hard beak, but there’s no shell in the ordinary sense of a mollusk.  …
I thought I knew what an octopus was… Gloomy octopus. P/C John Turnbull…. they’re the ultimate shape-shifter with an amazing ability to solve puzzles, slip through tiny holes, and possessed of a fascinating kind of intelligence. I’…
It’s not everyday you see a phytosaur… … yet, there it was in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Big, with an impressive set of teeth, and looking for all the world like a massive crocodile. This is Redondasaurus bermani.&…
I looked at the Phytosaur in real shock… Because there, in the dinosaur hall of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in central Pittsburgh, was what looked to be a massive crocodile. This is Redondasaurus bermani. It was huge …
Mixotrophs for the win… Elysia chlorotica, a sea slug that incorporates chloroplasts into its body.P/C Patrick J. Krug, Creative Commons CC BY-NC 3.0 license, via Wikimedia CommonsRemember the Elysia cholorotica (the big green sl…
I love learning something that radically changes my understanding of the world… Elysia chlorotica, a sea slug that incorporates chloroplasts into its body. P/C Patrick J. Krug, Creative Commons CC BY-NC 3.0 license, via Wikimedia CommonsIf…
What we believe to be true… Dall-E. [ digital art young man looking at a skull on the desktop ]… changes over time. That’s good because it generally means that we, as a culture, are figuring things out. It’s easy to come up w…
Our beliefs change over time. Dall-E. [ digital art young man looking at a skull on the desktop ]Good thing too. It was once widely believed that California was an island, that “bad air” caused disease, and that there was an Open Polar …
Magic is, by definition… Precision targeting for SearchResearch. P/C by Mikhail Nilov (Pexels link)… something that you don’t understand. That’s why magicians wow us in their presentations. I love magic, but I really don’t want magi…
An interesting question we should always ask ourselves… Precision targeting for SearchResearch. P/C by Mikhail Nilov (Pexels link)If you’ve got a new tool (LLMs, for example), as a skilled researcher, you want to find new ways to use that tool.&…
I’ve been skeptical… Precision targeting for SearchResearch. P/C by Mikhail Nilov (Pexels link)… about the search capability of LLMs. But I realize they’re here to stay–no amount of witchcraft will make them go away and we can only wait for t…
Listening to a book on the road… P/C Tomas Anunziata on Pexels.com … is a very different experience than reading the text as printed on paper, and different yet again than reading it on a screen. I recently listened t…
Audible books are life-changing. P/C Tomas Anunziata on Pexels.com When I go on long road trips, listening to audible books (previously known as “books on tape”) are an essential item. They keep me awake and listening, especially when I’…
How can you find the best tool… P/C Dall-E. Prompt “clash of the titans – three giant science fiction robots all fighting together with thunder lightning dramatic skies … to do that search thing we all know and love? Is there a kind…