Monthly Archives: February 2018

It’s the Gun Industry, and its NRA

It’s the Gun Industry, and its NRA Its not mental health, since we are going to always have mentally challenged individuals, even in the White House. It is not people not stepping forward, since the police were called several times … Continue reading

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Cyber Security Threats to Our Elections, and State and Local Prevention

Cyber Security Threats to Our Elections, and State and Local Prevention Much of cyber security is not only done at the NSA, Homeland Security, and McAfee level, but has to be done at the level of individuals and the computers … Continue reading

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Some Physics of the Half-Pipe

Some Physics of the Half-Pipe What goes down can come back up. Obviously, the opposite of “What goes up must come down.” Do I really need to disqualify myself as an expert in half-piping at my age? This is just … Continue reading

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Yet Another LA Awards Show: Traffic Congestion in the US and California

Los Angeles has won the INRIX Traffic Scorecard award as the most gridlocked city on the entire planet!  This is given out by the transportation analytics company INRIX, which tracks many drivers.  This is reported on by Katie Pyzyk on … Continue reading

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Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding

We present some public attitudes and understanding from results of polls taken by various polling organizations on questions relative to energy sources and global warming.  These are listed in the National Science Board Report from 2018.  The polls date from … Continue reading

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Public Attitudes About Science and Education

Public Attitudes about Science and Scientists are also surveyed in the National Science Board 2018 report.  The surveys are from 2016. For Spending for Scientific Research, 45% thought that it was about right, 38% thought it was too little, and … Continue reading

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Science and Engineering Education in California and in the US

We are going to present data on Science and Engineering (S&E) Education from the National Science Board study, and give results for California and for the United States as a whole.  Rather than showing large graphs of the yearly history … Continue reading

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Science and Engineering University Indicators, 2018

We show indicators relevant to Universities from the National Science Board 2018, Science and Engineering Digest, NSB-2018-2, Alexandria, VA; National Science Foundation.  This is available at https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/digest/  The graphs given there are much fancier than here, in that you can point to … Continue reading

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Our 700th Energy Blog Article

Our 700th Energy Blog Article It’s time to celebrate our 700th blog article. I call it our, because my writing is largely a reflection of my community and information sources. I like to look beyond the news publications, which avoid … Continue reading

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No New Drilling Rally in Laguna Beach

Rather than eggheading all the time, I actually went to the No New (Offshore) Drilling Rally in Laguna Beach.  It was held at Main Beach.  It started with networking, and then sign waving and chanting along Pacific Coast Highway.  Then … Continue reading

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