Recent content by BillTre

How about using AI to search out bad references?

I would. I knew a guy when I was in college who had one. He looked like Frank Zappa and we would take him to parties to pass him off as Zappa. The car didn't hurt.

The crooks are just getting smarter and smarter.

You can see versions of this in many cultivated plants that have parts of their leaves green and part white (or possibly some other color underlying and hidden by the green. These are mosaics where some of the cells lose their chloroplasts. The lack of chloroplasts is propagated to the cell's...

Rates of recent human evolution have been the subject of threads here several times. Here is a AAAS news article. It is based on this behind a paywall Nature article. 16,000 ancient genomes from Europe and the Mideast were analyzed. Changes associated with the new ways humans lived at this...

There little random moving balls sold as toys if various kinds (for kids, pets). They work by having a small hollow low mass ball that contains a weight and a motor that moves the weight around to skew the ball's center of mass. They work pretty well, but are randomish. This would be difficult...

How does a glass kettle give you a plastic taste?