Author: techne

There is a bill which has been approved by the California senate and assembly which requires motorists to give a distance of at least three feet when passing bicyclists on motorways. This is an extremely good idea. Please ask the governor to sign the bill and make it law! Tell the Governor to Protect Bicyclists

It’s a bit surprising to find out that there isn’t already a Tesla museum. I would have thought that there would be given how significant his inventions were. Tesla’s system of alternating current was superior to Edison(the sicko)’s direct current and eventually became the standard for electrical transmission. Yet Tesla’s ideas went far beyond just…

Today I was happy to learn that a company in my city which makes tofu and supplies it to the restaurant I was eating at does not use genetically-modified soybeans. Sometimes it is difficult to ask a restaurant if the tofu they use is non-GMO. I have learned that the following questions are useful: Is…

This particular bit of information which was in the news some weeks ago is of interest because it appears to be the first known instance of a drug which can actually cause new brain cells to form: Common Diabetes Drug Found to Stimulate Brain Cell Growth, May Treat Alzheimer’s and Stroke Patients …metformin increased the…

1. In rice cooker add organic brown basmati rice-millet mixture and veggie broth and stir before adding water. Cook. 2. Put rice-millet mixture in wok on med-low setting with organic high-heat safflower oil. Stir. 3. Add farmers market veggies. I added some nice heirloom-type peppers, very tasty tomatoes, broccoli crowns, asian scallions which are a…

Above is a stunningly realistic animation of a new large-scale launch vehicle. Many people seemed to think that when the Space Shuttle program ended that NASA was no longer going to be involved in large-scale launch systems, which is false. I think the press is to blame for this since this is how it was…

This was mentioned incidentally in a previous post but I wanted to give it its own post because it is so cool. This app called aWARemote – remote control for Winamp consists of two parts: the part that is run on the phone or tablet, and the server which is run on the PC. Using…

I was lucky to find a used Ikea Malm dressing table in birch color, which is no longer sold (at stores in my area and on the Ikea USA website). The only available version is white which would look horrendous in my studio since everything else is natural wood color. Apparently I’m not the only…

It looks like the City and/or County of San Francisco has a program to increase water efficiency and install new toilets in apartments. A couple days ago someone came and replaced my older toilet, which I hated, with this extremely cool, new one which uses a fraction of the water the old one did. The…