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    • A Beard Cut Short
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          • Near Earth Autonomy
          • Point Clouds
          • Wallops, Optech, Chu and NCAR
      • Reviews: The Laser That’s Changing the World
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      • Deep Impact multimedia
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  • Books
    • A Beard Cut Short
      • “Beard” Extras
      • “A Beard Cut Short” Errata
    • A Brief History of Automotive Lidar
    • The Laser That’s Changing the World
      • Extras: The Laser That’s Changing the World
        • Lidar History Timeline
        • Photos and video: The Laser That’s Changing the World
          • “Ancient” History
          • Alamosa and NASA’s Airborne Snow Observatory
          • Automotive
          • Carnegie Mellon
          • Cyra Technologies and CyArk
          • Direct Dimensions
          • Firepond
          • ILMF 2018
          • Mcity
          • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the GGAO
          • Near Earth Autonomy
          • Point Clouds
          • Wallops, Optech, Chu and NCAR
      • Reviews: The Laser That’s Changing the World
    • From Jars to the Stars
      • From Jars to the Stars: Reviews
      • Deep Impact multimedia
      • From Jars to the Stars: Errata
  • Blog
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  • Books
    • A Beard Cut Short
      • “Beard” Extras
      • “A Beard Cut Short” Errata
    • A Brief History of Automotive Lidar
    • The Laser That’s Changing the World
      • Extras: The Laser That’s Changing the World
        • Lidar History Timeline
        • Photos and video: The Laser That’s Changing the World
          • “Ancient” History
          • Alamosa and NASA’s Airborne Snow Observatory
          • Automotive
          • Carnegie Mellon
          • Cyra Technologies and CyArk
          • Direct Dimensions
          • Firepond
          • ILMF 2018
          • Mcity
          • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the GGAO
          • Near Earth Autonomy
          • Point Clouds
          • Wallops, Optech, Chu and NCAR
      • Reviews: The Laser That’s Changing the World
    • From Jars to the Stars
      • From Jars to the Stars: Reviews
      • Deep Impact multimedia
      • From Jars to the Stars: Errata
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Coronavirus in the air: what we know; what can help

Health Care, MediaApril 14, 202037Views0Likes0Comments
An electron microscope image from the first U.S. case of COVID-19. Those spherical viruses could well linger in the air. (courtesy CDC) Just because it doesn’t look dirty doesn’t mean it’s clean. That’s always been true, of course. But the coronavirus pandemic is reinforcing this lesson in unspeakably tragic ways. A gleaming doorknob could well be coated…

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Coronavirus is exponential math in human lungs

Education, Health Care, Media, PoliticsMarch 10, 202037Views0Likes0Comments
My beat-up copy of Al Bartlett's "The Essential Exponential" I have not rented space in a former Minuteman missile silo, nor have I stockpiled a cubic kilometer of toilet paper or a reservoir’s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it’s serious because of something Al Bartlett told me 15 years ago…

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Microsoft Band 2 and heart rate

Health Care, Random, sportsJanuary 29, 201654Views0Likes0Comments
I bought  Microsoft Band 2 a few weeks back ($200). I'd looked at the Band 1 a year ago and was a bit scared off by its extreme flatness; the Band 2 has a nice arch. I jumped on it. This post is about heart rate monitoring accuracy, but before I go on, the Band 2…

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Print vs. Video: a Double-Lung-Plus-Liver Transplant Smackdown

Health Care, MediaJune 22, 201543Views0Likes0Comments
As a writer with limited Photoshop skills and very limited video-editing skills, I'm tend to be in awe of good video. Since I left the Daily Camera in 2007, though, I haven't  had a chance to compare a story of mine with the video equivalent. Back then, it was always TV news people who happened to…

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Fresh (Baked) news on weed and the developing brain

Business, Health Care, Media, PoliticsOctober 30, 201442Views0Likes0Comments
The jersey's orange and the shoes are black, unless you happen to be stoned. Abigail Sullivan Moore's New York Times piece on a new study on the effects of marijuana and the developing brain is another arrow in the increasingly crammed quiver of evidence that weed and growing brains don't mix. This one shows that frequent…

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