by Ai Friendly | Aug 13, 2023 | Witty Repartee on any topic
My wife complains about humidity in the summertime. I generally pretend that I don’t know what she is talking about, but now scientists are working on removing that source of irritation from her environment while creating energy out of thin air at the same time. The...
by Ai Friendly | Aug 6, 2023 | Witty Repartee on any topic
On this date in 1945 my brother was born. Also, Robert Oppenheimer, his team of physicists, the American military, and the American government under Harry Truman dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. I watched the movie Oppenheimer recently and am currently...
by Ai Friendly | Jul 30, 2023 | Witty Repartee on any topic
I recently watched the movie, Oppenheimer, and I am now reading the book, American Prometheus. One inescapable message presents itself: We have been living in the Atomic Age for almost 100 years. Some will think it premature to say that we are entering a new Age, the...
by Ai Friendly | Jul 24, 2023 | Witty Repartee on any topic
We all know that the first attempts to harness nuclear energy for electricity have gone awry in Russia, Japan, and here in the United States. However, smaller and more efficient nuclear reactors using different and more advanced technology are on the horizon. As a...
by Ai Friendly | Jul 17, 2023 | Witty Repartee on any topic
The American Prometheus is a recent biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie Oppenheimer comes out in Imax on Friday. I am looking forward to reading the book and watching the film. The title of the book makes an appropriate allusion to Prometheus, the mythical...
by Ai Friendly | Jul 9, 2023 | Witty Repartee on any topic
Most kids have an app to distort human faces into bunny rabbits or trolls. They find it amusing and they may be doing themselves a favor. They are desensitizing themselves to a real problem that we will all face in the very near future, the Uncanny Valley. The Uncanny...
Recent Comments