I am looking out my window and thinking that it looks like fall. Leaves are beginning to fall on the ground and the trees are turning color as they usually do in October. What is odd, is that at the same time it is 90 degrees F in August. Where I live, we are...
In his book, Physics of the Future: How Science will Shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 Michio Kaku writes “…the future is already here; it is just unequally distributed.” In Physics of the Future Kaku shares his vision for AI, computers,...
The signs of spring have come to my part of the world in Minnesota. We’ve had a string of 40+ degree days and the snow has melted, at least for now. The ice has melted on the Mississippi River in front of my house. I live about a mile above a river dam, so it...
I’ve been thinking about how we can frame our time after COVID. I keep hearing that we are moving toward a new normal, but this framing implies that we are letting go of an “old normal” and entering into a new one. But what does normal mean? Normal implies that...
