The petition, launched last year by the nonprofit Halloween & Costume Association, argues that moving the date of Halloween will lead to a "safer, longer, stress-free celebration."

yeah, right.... of course that's the only reason why anyone would like to move Halloween, and commerce and profit has nothing to do with it...

 

yeah, right.... of course that's the only reason why anyone would like to move Halloween, and commerce and profit has nothing to do with it...

Let's make everyday Halloween.

 

Some old jobs are coming back even with automation.

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/resou...or-attendants-powell-civic-dirty-14135435.php

But the most successful seems to be a pilot program, launched at the Civic Center and Powell Street stations April 30, 2018, stationing attendants in the elevators. The results were so positive, the BART board voted to double the number of stations with elevator attendants at a Thursday meeting.

The program led to a drop in reports of elevators being "intentionally soiled" and improved elevator conditions for people who use wheelchairs, people with strollers and seniors, according to Assistant Superintendent of System Service David Coggshall.
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The program is staffed in partnership with Urban Alchemy, which trains and finds employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated and at-risk residents of the Bay Area.

As your elevator attendant I run a clean elevator. Watch your step!

 

Can't wait to see this movie:

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ricity-is-more-gripping-than-the-current-war/

Benedict Cumberbatch plays Thomas Edison in The Current War, an epic tale about the fight to electrify 19th century America. But this odd film only hints at the truth of the battle of invention

 

Some old jobs are coming back even with automation.

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/resou...or-attendants-powell-civic-dirty-14135435.php

So now we need to pay someone to keep someone else from taking a dump in an elevator?

Its over. Last one to leave San Fransisco please turn out the lights.

 

Should be interesting if they tell the true story. Edison gets all the press but he was a poser compared to Nikolai Tesla and George Westinghouse.

 

Can't wait to see this movie:

https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ricity-is-more-gripping-than-the-current-war/

I hear the performance of Benedict Cumberbatch is electrifying

 

I hear the performance of Benedict Cumberbatch is electrifying

Beg to differ... but my sources say it's rather magnetizing..

 

Should be interesting if they tell the true story. Edison gets all the press but he was a poser compared to Nikolai Tesla and George Westinghouse.

Thank god it's not another movie about Tesla. It there was an overrated inventor of everything, Nikolai Tesla would be his name.

This man is the one a movie should be made about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/steinmetz_father_of_elec_engineering

 

It there was an overrated inventor of everything,

Oh but he was a class A nut-job and that's always fun. And George Westinghouse made a killing off of him. All Edison did was take credit for anything one of his employees did and patent it in his name.

Actually, they were all standing on the shoulders of their predecessor's works.

 

Thank god it's not another movie about Tesla. It there was an overrated inventor of everything, Nikolai Tesla would be his name.

This man is the one a movie should be made about.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz
https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/steinmetz_father_of_elec_engineering

A genius in both mathematics and electronics, his work earned him the nicknames "Forger of Thunderbolts" and "The Wizard of Schenectady"

Wow.... just wow ... a real legend, that dude. And I had never heard of him. Gonna assimilate his bio now ... thanks for posting!

 

A genius in both mathematics and electronics, his work earned him the nicknames "Forger of Thunderbolts" and "The Wizard of Schenectady"

Wow.... just wow ... a real legend, that dude. And I had never heard of him. Gonna assimilate his bio now ... thanks for posting!

A good example of his physics work.
https://archive.org/details/fourlecturesonre00stei/page/n5

 

Oh but he was a class A nut-job and that's always fun. And George Westinghouse made a killing off of him. All Edison did was take credit for anything one of his employees did and patent it in his name.

Actually, they were all standing on the shoulders of their predecessor's works.

If he was just a brilliant nut-job that would have been OK but he was wrong on the basic science of the electrical devices he tried to engineer and didn't upgrade his world view when the world of physics bypassed him. This wasted valuable resources on impossible dreams then and today.

 

This wasted valuable resources on impossible dreams then and today.

True but anyone who dug a huge hole in the ground to harvest the electrons... He was thinking outside the box. It was just the wrong box.

 

True but anyone who dug a huge hole in the ground to harvest the electrons... He was thinking outside the box. It was just the wrong box.

Wrong box, wrong mathematics and wrong physics. Strike three, you're out.

 

 

Simple and short, but thought provoking video about the "CSI effect" on ordinary people:

https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/have-you-been-fooled-by-forensics-on-tv/p07hy9pf

 

Bad news for those of us who like diet drinks:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.116.016027​

After adjustments for age, sex, education (for analysis of dementia), caloric intake, diet quality, physical activity, and smoking, higher recent and higher cumulative intake of artificially sweetened soft drinks were associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke, all-cause dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease dementia. When comparing daily cumulative intake to 0 per week (reference), the hazard ratios were 2.96 (95% confidence interval, 1.26–6.97) for ischemic stroke and 2.89 (95% confidence interval, 1.18–7.07) for Alzheimer’s disease. Sugar-sweetened beverages were not associated with stroke or dementia.

 

If we lived our lives by risk assessment no one would go near an automobile. I gotta have my daily fix of Coke Zero.

 

If we lived our lives by risk assessment no one would go near an automobile. I gotta have my daily fix of Coke Zero.

Yeah ... I prefer the taste of traditional Diet Coke myself ... and my fix has more to do with its calorie-free caffeine contents than other things.