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In T. H. White's imaginative fantasy of the youth of King Arthur, The Once and Future King, the magician Merlin transforms Arthur into a variety of animals in order to teach him the virtues he will need in human society. One of the most chilling transformations comes about when Merlin launches him into an ant colony. ...
In July of 2025, inspectors hired by the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company to assess the condition of a tank at the firm's Washington State paper mill in Longview delivered some bad news. The tank contained "white liquor," a highly corrosive solution of sodium hydroxide (lye) and sodium sulfide used to break down wood pulp in ...
Our material culture is largely disposable, thanks to technology and more than that, a prevailing attitude that is deeply rooted, largely invisible, and amounts to something close to "eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." And it's getting worse, if the construction methods of typical modern housing are compared with...
The National Association of Broadcasters think they do. A bill kicking around the U. S. Congress would mandate that all new passenger vehicles sold in the U. S. be capable of receiving the AM broadcast band. The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025 has made it out of a Senate committee and is awaiting action by the full Se...
In the last few weeks, three of the biggest AI firms—Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic—have all admitted that AI models they were testing somehow escaped the "sandbox" environment and committed hacking of real-world companies. On Aug. 8, National Public Radio summarized these three incidents as follows.