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I don't really collect time pieces and clocks. I just don't throw them out after they stop working. I have about 8 clocks of no value, 1 stop watch, 1 pocket watch, and 20 or so wrist watches of dubious quality. A few were gifts so that makes sense - but really. I have not worn a watch for some...

As a wise man once said, Confusuous perhaps, or it could have been Sydney Sweeneey, I forget. "A man who asks can only be fool for a minute. A wise man who doesn't ask is a fool for life." Or something like that, you get the drift/ Anyways, Ye old style of thinking, with humans superior to all...

Hi there Sandra Jane. Have you tried some sites in the internet such as an introduction to differential equations with some neat real world applications. https://www.mathsisfun.com/calculus/differential-equations.html and something more in depth...

Tried it and it works! Interesting.

don't cut your finger(s) off, let alone scorch your eyeballs in 0.01 seconds. You order some laser goggles too!

Any more Hams around, or have they all left the arena? Way back on the '70's on a short wave radio in Sask, we could set our clocks with the Colorado, with the 'bing, bing, bing... bong, bong, bong, 'At the tone it will be six o'clock something something time' 5 seconds silence BEEEEEP, bing...

I can't read the SA article without a subscription - seems I went over my free limit reading articles in seismographs.

A more recent idea is that proteins in the retina, called cryptochromes, react to magnetic fields; this would allow migrating songbirds to fly in the right direction even in the dim glow of twilight The birds should be able to fly home in the dim glow of moonlight, n'est pas, one would think, at...

Someone may appreciate this, even if not directly applicable to the opening OP, Dune by Brian Hebert was a series of books, the first being Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. One of the characters is named Serena Butler, whose murder of her son is the catalyst for the uprising of the humans against...

An agent cohort myself, if I must commit. Just wondering if the agency concept and classifications can explain anything more easily than a cause and effect approach that the physical sciences has depended upon to explain the world. EDIT I see your above posting - makes sense/ Control systems...

Intelligent agents can be organized hierarchically into multiple "sub-agents." These sub-agents handle lower-level functions, and together with the main agent, they form a complete system capable of executing complex tasks and achieving challenging goals. The sub-agents designation leads to the...

It actually is. Even so or has quite a few followers as it now extends more into common everyday life vocabulary with the overwhelming hype of AI. Cybernetics and all that bleed over. I wonder how kids and graduates being told that the being human comes with 'free' agency and you can be anything...

Interesting discussion, all over the place connecting ideas. Can one believe at the same time in evolution and its processes of randomness of natural selection, and teleology which in its final extension leads to some sort of divine intervention? Ie-the universe has a purpose. So, everything...

So 109 if starting with 1 female ( and an adjacent male ) for 9 years of births ( ie 7 years after 100 cats ) with each birth producing 10 female kittens/liter/female offspring. Do the parents and grandparents die off or become sterile? From Post #6

I guestimated the population growth as if the cats procreated by mitosis, leaving the parents unable to contribute to the population after having one episode of fertilization, gestation and birth of young. The growth period of the young and time to maturity was assumed to be zero ( an...