alexbeyman in #travel • 6 months agoPostcards From the Virtual World, Vol. 1: YayoiTravel blogs are played out. Dime a dozen these days. But what about a travel blog by someone touring the virtual world? Taking photos along the way to share with you, showcasing…alexbeyman in #climate • 6 months agoCheating Our Way Out of Climate ConsequencesJohan C. Faust, Christian März and Sian F. Henley via Wikipedia Commons I had an interesting conversation recently. Whenever the long term consequalexbeyman in #science • 9 months agoIs Water a Fuel? Well No, But Actually Yes. Sort Of?If you’ve ever had the misfortune of reading the comments under any Youtube video about electric cars or alternative energy, you’ve probably seen someone shilling perpetual…alexbeyman in #crazy • 10 months agoInteresting Crackpots Vol. 4: Gene Ray, Father of Time CubeMcGeddon, via Wikipedia Commons When the sun is directly overhead, it’s mid-day where you are, but roughly six hoursalexbeyman in #history • 10 months agoInteresting Crackpots Vol. 3: Hanns Hörbiger, Father of World Ice TheorySmithsonian Libraries via Wikipedia Commons If you read volumes one and two of this series, you likely noalexbeyman in #history • 10 months agoInteresting Crackpots Vol. 2: Alfred Lawson, Father of LawsonomyAudrey Nowakowski via Wikipedia Commons Alfred Lawson seemed a natural follow up toalexbeyman in #history • 10 months agoInteresting Crackpots Vol. 1: Wilhelm Reich, Father of OrgonomySvoboda, Antonin via Wikipedia Commons Record Scratch* “Yup, that’s malexbeyman in #diy • 11 months agoHow to Power Your Fridge Off Your Electric CarAuthor’s own photo What could anybody possibly need a wall outlet in their car for? Aren’t there little inverters sold at Harbor Freight or at truck stops you can plug into thealexbeyman in #diy • 11 months agoMore Underwater Hamster HabitatsAuthor’s own photo The previous article on this project did reasonably well,alexbeyman in #space • 11 months agoSurviving in Domes on a Warmer Earth Will Prepare Us for MarsPixabay I of course don’t mean to suggest we abandon efforts at reducing carbon emissions and repaialexbeyman in #science • 11 months agoWhy I Build Underwater Habitats for HamstersAuthor’s photo Probably you have many questions. I know this because I’ve heard them all, in the course of this project. For example, “How do they get air?” Via an air compressor oalexbeyman in #future • last yearWhere’s My Hoverboard??Wikipedia Commons (modified by author) No, I don’t mean those stupid hands-free segways.alexbeyman in #nasa • last yearNautilus-X, NASA’s Cancelled Interplanetary ShuttleWikipedia Commons One of the most tiresomely common questions I’ve seenalexbeyman in #transportation • last yearPersonal Rapid Transit: Driverless Pods of the (Retro) FutureWikipedia Commons The future of transportation was a lot of things before it was driverless cars. Many ofalexbeyman in #philosophy • last yearHomo Sapiens, the Self-Domesticating Animalsource For the past 62 years, Lyudmila Trut and her team of geneticists have been running what is arguablyalexbeyman in #future • last yearWe Don’t Have Much Longer to Become a Type 1 Civilizationsource For those not in the loop, the Kardashev Scale is a system of measurement invented by Sovalexbeyman in #futurism • last yearThere's One Thing Futurists are Never Wrong Aboutsource A bold claim, I know. It won’t surprise you to find out that I want to stick some qualialexbeyman in #singularity • last yearWill a Biological Singularity Arrive First?source Popular expectations for the future are helplessly colored by present trends. The assumption is always that whatever’s goingalexbeyman in #space • last yearThe Importance of Industrializing the Moonsource There’s an idiom that goes “It’s expensive to be poor”. The illustration usually given is that a cheap pair of boots that will lasalexbeyman in #musk • last yearNew Frontiers Jeff Bezos Could Conquer if He Wasn’t Trying to be Elon Musksource If you’re a space nerd like I am, odds are good news has l
