AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities

Six-dimensional shapes called Calabi-Yau manifolds (3D slices of which are shown here) come in increasingly complicated varieties. In string theory, a microscopic manifold lies at every point in our 4D universe and determines the laws of physics we experience.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-starts-to-sift-through-string-theorys-near-endless-possibilities-20240423/

GM Battery Component Supplier Aspen Aerogels To Get $671M U.S. Loan

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/10/gm-battery-component-supplier-aspen-aerogels-to-get-671m-u-s-loan/

On this day, 11 years ago:
Left to right;
Me(with the yellow phone), Myra, and Spencer Luke, at Viejas Arena, for the SDSU basketball game against Boise State, which BS won, ending a run of 164 games that the Aztecs won at home, when leading with 5 minutes left in the game.

In Amsterdam, a community of
floating homes shows the world
how to live alongside nature

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https://wapo.st/4f93v1g

Artificial nests can help endangered penguins breed, but design matters

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https://wapo.st/4eM3RLk

De-Extinction and the Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/de-extinction-and-the-resurrection

On this day, nine years ago, leaving Petco, I, by chance, come across this magnificent, highly inquisitive cat, and was allowed to take a picture. While my shadow didn't seem to interrupt the moment,
it likely registered awareness somewhere, just not enough to disturb that moment.

The ‘Beautiful Confusion’ of the First Billion Years Comes Into View

Unexpectedly bright galaxies, mysterious little red dots, surprisingly massive black holes, and galaxies shaped like pickles or bunches of grapes have been spotted all over the young universe.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-beautiful-confusion-of-the-first-billion-years-comes-into-view-20241009/

California 2024
Key Election Dates

NASA:
New Insights Into How Mars Became Uninhabitable

Once water rich, Mars transformed into a barren terrestrial planet that can not support life as we know it.
Mní Wičhóni

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-new-insights-into-how-mars-became-uninhabitable/

#SanDiegoBaseball
I hit TJ Tacos right before the game.

Good afternoon from the Left Coast. It is a beautiful day here, not unlike it was on this day, eight years ago, as I feasted on tacos at Swami's and washed them down with a beer.

Well, it's been an unusual week. Our Volt died in Balboa Park, and we had to have it towed to the dealer. We got home at 1:30 AM. The repairs are covered: New Main Battery and controllers, but the parts are on backorder and may take several weeks. So, in keeping with the change in seasons, we leased a new Equinox EV. It will take some serious time to get used to the touch screen controls.

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The damage from Hurricane Helene could impact access to the vote for large numbers of those in flood and wind damaged counties. It looks like those in (checks political map) Republican strongholds will be disproportionately effected.

Denmark fuses wind, sun, water and air for the first time: 5,000 tons of this rare energy have been produced

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/wind-sun-water-air-energy-denmark/7037/

Good morning from the Left Coast. Fog has moved in and settled on everything with a blanket of damp silence, nourishing the plants and wetting the ground, streets, houses and cars. The ghosts of everything familiar fades in and out of sight.

Galaxy S23

Good morning from the Left Coast. The fog is thick, I can barely see across the street. Life nas slowed to a deliberate, cautious crawl.

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