Each winter, I pore over the stats and select five new players to join the Heroes of Baseball. I look mainly at All-Star Game appearances and Wins Above Replacement—relative to peers—to make my choices. A player that I select to be a Hero of Baseball is an active player who is about halfway into an […]
Ultimate Water Physics Novelty Device
Water is a remarkable compound. It expands and floats instead of sinks when it becomes a solid. It will pull itself through a siphon. It’s a universal solvent. Because of its unique and amazing properties, water can do a lot of things that don’t make sense unless you understand the science behind it all. There’s […]
Blinkist Roundup, Volume II
More than a million new book titles are published each year. Few people have the time to read even 0.01% of that number each year. Blinkist is a book summary service that has condensed over 3,000 of the most impactful non-fiction books into summaries that take about 15 minutes to read. I maintain a list […]
COVID-19: Why Some Places Fare Better Than Others
The global COVID-19 pandemic has not affected all countries equally. Some countries are doing a better job containing it than others. Why is that? There are many factors at play: Experience: Remember SARS back in 2003? That was a type of coronavirus. East Asian countries were particularly hard-hit by SARS, but they overcame it. Maybe […]
Father’s Day, 2043
people. Back then, her father would say, you didn’t have to hunt or forage for food. Everybody had a job to do, and when you did it, you got money for it. All you had to do to make a living was do your job and get your money. With the money, you could trade it for food, shelter, tools, or whatever you needed.
How Should Copyright Work for AI?
Can an Artificial Intelligence (AI) be a copyright holder? Can an AI get a patent? I think the answer is pretty clearcut. No. Let me explain. When a writer writes a novel, he or she owns the copyright. When a writer writes a novel in Microsoft Word, the writer still owns the copyright. Microsoft does […]