BAD NEWS I’M AFRAID
“Bad news I’m afraid”, is one of the more considered approaches to calling the office to tell the boss you are sick, and won’t be …
“Bad news I’m afraid”, is one of the more considered approaches to calling the office to tell the boss you are sick, and won’t be …
The World’s two biggest shipping companies are both re-organizing their businesses. The effect of the pandemic on supply chains has been obvious to us all, …
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog on the potential dangers to the human race of artificial intelligence (AI). One of the possible scenarios, …
Antarctica and archaeology may seem to be an unlikely combination. The idea that anything archaeological could be found in that desolate part of the world …
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; …
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 …
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 …
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. …
“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 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 …