ELECTRIC VEHICLES
There are many problems with the rapid development of electric vehicles: Electrical supply; sufficient charging outlets; life-spans of batteries and the cost of their replacement; …
SINGULARITY
Reaching AI singularity is the moment when machine intelligence becomes equal to, or surpasses, human intelligence. It is a concept that visionaries like Stephen Hawking …
LONDON STRETCHER RAILINGS
One of my readers, and a close friend, sent me this story of London Stretcher Railings, which I had never heard before. I’ve walked by …
ROMAN CONCRETE
I have written several blogs on the mystery of Roman concrete, and why it appears so much better than the concrete available to us today. …
Wi-Fi
“I spy, with my little Wi-Fi” is a cute title of an article that is quite frightening: Using Wi-Fi to track people inside buildings, when …
THE HAMILTON ROAD
The Hamilton Road stretches 185 kilometers from Erbil, the capital of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, across the imposing Zagros Mountains, to the town …
BRITAIN’S AREA 51
I was quite surprised to discover Britain’s Area 51. Orford Ness may now be abandoned, some of its research still secret and much of its …
FOGGING UP YOUR WINDSCREEN
You would think that “Fogging up your windscreen” would be a thing of the past by now. Certainly, the smeary vision we put up with …
LAST FISHERMAN IN MONACO
Eric Rinaldi, the last fisherman in Monaco, unties the mooring lines, and carefully maneuvers his fishing boat Diego out of Monaco’s harbour, Port Hercules, close …
HUMANIZING ROBOTS
Humanizing robots is a topic that has attracted and repelled mankind from the earliest days of robot development. The android, Commander Data, from StarTrek probably …