We usually take base 10 as being the natural way to look at numbers but is it? How are other types of numbers used in measurement units?

Brighter Evening

Brighter Ideas: Measuring and Numbers

We discuss the simulation hypothesis - the idea that our percieved universe may be the simulation of a more advanced version of ourselves. We look at some of the evidence for and against it.

Brighter Ideas: The Simulation Hypothesis

I tried the famous Popeye's chicken sandwich and share my thoughts and reaction.

Bite Brighter: Popeye's Sandwich

We reflect on the tremendous growth in capability in two key categories of technology. We try to put this growth into perspective by looking at how we have reduced costs while improving the capabilities.

Getting Brighter: The Miracle of Transportation & Communication

In having discussions about difficult topics, people often shut down conversation though the use of a logical fallacy. We discus a few of the ones that I often see.

Brighter Ideas: Lies We Tell and Are Told

If you could travel back in time without worrying what your changes would cause, how could you improve the world?

Brighter Ideas: Would you be a good time traveler?

We've lost a future that promised greater capability as computers became ubiquitous. While computers are better, faster, easier and cheaper than ever, something has gone wrong. Look at the present and see how e fall short of the future that might have been.

Getting Brighter: The Future We Lost, today... (part 2)

We've lost a future that promised greater capability as computers became ubiquitous. While computers are better, faster, easier and cheaper than ever, something has gone wrong. We start exploring the past to understand future we could have had.

Getting Brighter: The Future We Lost...

At the end of the 90's, the DMCA was passed and a program called DeCSS was released. DeCSS decrypted region-encoded DVD's to allow copying and as well as playback in region other than the one the DVD was sold in. We will talk about this case, what happened and discuss how we can legally analyze computer source code to decide if it qualifies as speech.

Getting Brighter: Computer Code As Speech: DeCSS and the DMCA

We explore the history of some common appetizers/snacks.

Bite Brighter: Tots, Wings and Nachos

We explore the idea of permanence vs the human timescale. We talk about what it takes to have a permanent, or at least long-lived, effect on the world.

Brighter Ideas: Permanence

I share my experiences with various regional sodas.

Bite Brighter: Regional Sodas

We discuss the Gold Standard, why it is used and what its drawbacks are. We also discuss the creation of the Federal Reserve System and how we slowly moved to fiat currency.

Getting Brighter: Economy: The Gold Standard and Federal Reserve

COVID-19 is an on-going pandemic. We talk about how to understand models of the progression and what changes are likely to happen as a result of this experience.

Staying Brighter: COVID-19 - Predicting The Future

We explore what it would take to make a Mars colony, what challenges it would face and what it might be like

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