Month: August 2024
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Information Tech at the State Department
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The Federal News Network reports on how the State Department is filling it information technology positions. It says: The Foreign Affairs IT fellowship, it’s been around since 2017. And it’s a merit and needs based program, and it’s designed to attract outstanding students and professionals to prepare them for a…
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It’s Hard to Make Hydrogen Power Green
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The Washington Post reported on a new company dedicated to making hydroget for the green economy. It doesn’t work yet, and I think it will be very expensive, therefore limiting hydrogen to those uses that must have thermal energy, as opposed to electrical energy. The plant separates water (H2O) into…
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Judges Run America
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Here are three New York Times headlines on one random day in America, Auguar 26, 2024. What happened to the legislative and executive branches: How a Federal Court in New Orleans Is Driving the Conservative Agenda Today, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is an outlier. But a Trump…
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Palantir Defending the US
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This Washington Post article by Maureen Dowd tells the fascinating story of Alex Karp, the founder and leader of Palantir Technologies. It is applying high tech methods of intelligence gathering and analysis to US national security. Karp tells Dowd, ““I’m a Jewish, racially ambiguous dyslexic, so I can say anything.”…
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Sao Paulo Copes with Rainfall
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According to Bloomberg: Well before it became Brazil’s financial capital, São Paulo was known as terra da garoa, or the land of drizzle. An explosion of concrete and people in the second half of the 20th century—residents now total about 12 million—raised urban temperatures, and as the atmosphere has warmed, a…