Daughter Number Three

This news about the cause of most ovarian cancers, and therefore a way to prevent them, should be widely known. So here it is with a gift li...

Have you heard about SpudCells? This article in the Star Tribune  (gift link) almost a week ago was the first thing I saw, but it had been w...

If you put the word "solar" into the search engine on Daughter Number Three, you get a whole lot of results. So much has changed i...

I learned from Yonah Freemark, principal research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute...

Thanks to a retro post on kottke.org , I watched this video about how aluminum cans are made.  It's only 11 minutes long, and as Jason...

I'm still beyond sad and bewildered, and most of the time angry . Today a friend gave me this: She made it with her 3D printer. It's...

Several weeks ago, kottke.org linked to a video by a YouTuber whose channel is called Technology Connections. The video is called You are be...

From kottke.org , shared there by a UK reader... A Line in a Tom Stoppard Play Inspired a New Breast Cancer Treatment In a letter to the Ti...

We bought our vacuum cleaner in 1988 or maybe 1989. It's a Sears Kenmore with a HEPA filter. It still works great. We bought it from the...

There's so much bad news, I was ignoring this story I kept seeing in my BlueSky feed: "Did U.S. bully tactics kill climate measure?...

Stanford's expert on renewable energy, Mark Jacobson, had a series of posts yesterday on BlueSky about the benefits of water, wind, and ...

If you have MAGA relatives like I do, who like to assail clean energy for gobbling up farmland for solar farms or who echo Trump's hatre...

Everyone keeps saying that when calling a Congress members we should tell them personal stories of how the DOGE/Trump cuts will affect us. A...

Do you know about warming stripes ? This is the image that's usually shown: It's a visual representation of the increase in global ...

I've been reflecting on vaccines a lot lately.  At first, I was thinking I grew up in a golden age of public health, and in a relative s...

If you wanted a small pickup truck 20 or 25 years ago, you had several choices: the Ford Ranger, the Chevy S10, and several from Japanese ca...

My mother was born in 1932, and she had twin brothers who were born about two years later. While the youngest boys were still infants, their...

If you're older than 55 or 60, what apples were around for sale when you were growing up?  I'm from Upstate New York, so I guess I w...

Here's a fact about the renewable energy transition that doesn't get enough attention. In addition to electric versions of tools/veh...

Yet another breakthrough on the horizon in the efforts to decarbonize concrete. (Here's an earlier post about one method that's furt...