FALL FOLIAGE 2014: Week 8. Gone....

I should have posted two pictures, a before leaf blower, and one after. There's green in this picture; there wouldn't have been if I had taken the picture before spending several hours blowing leaves around.

Here's last year's photo, same time, same station. I could have easily posted it again here, with no one the wiser. The one significant difference between this year and last is the neighbor's pear trees. In last year's photos, they were both bright red; this year they have just begun to turn.

Last week's picture is here; you can continue to click back in time from there.

SELF-DRIVING CARS: Saving Lives AND Energy. The IEEE is flacking for autonomous vehicles again.

I found this comment somewhat amusing: "Robocars driving together in platoons will use half the fuel that today's vehicles do."

They already exist ... we call them 'buses'.

ISRAEL’S RESPONSE TO TERROR: relax gun laws.

HOW SPACEFLIGHT affects men and women.

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The gist: "both sexes are 'pretty much screwed' if they spend too much time in space."

NEW MEASURE OF PROSPERITY aims to go beyond GDP to include not only conventional indicators of economic strength, but also metrics that correlate with self-reported happiness.

Thanks, but no. I don't want any measure that could affect my economic prosperity to include any subjective measures that activists can can corrupt to their own goals.