If you played word association with Joe and Jane Random, how would they respond to Critical Mass? In 1934, Hungarian phycisist Leó Szilárd filed his patent for a neutron-induced nuclear chain reaction and introduced the concept of “critical mass.” The critical mass is the smallest amount of fissile material needed for a sustained nuclear chain […]
Photo by Al’s brother-in-law in Boston, MA. When a snow plow damages private property like this, what’s the process for the property owner to seek remuneration? How often do snow plow operators have to replace things like sign posts and mailboxes, for example?
Google Trends is a handy tool to show interest in terms of how often people search for stuff. Here’s the graph for the USA and California showing how often people searched for “bicycle” from 2004 through 2013.
New York Magazine predicts nobody will use CitiBike in the winter. But guess what? CitiBike reports 19,000 rides last Wednesday, when temperatures were at or below freezing. More bicycle stories below the photo of cycling teens in decidedly warmer San Jose, CA.
Last Saturday, I was just riding along in beautiful 68 degree sunny weather on Brommer Street in Santa Cruz when I shot a photo of Jamie Bianchini towing his son Luca in a bike trailer. I uploaded the photo to Google Plus. Google then applied “autoawesome” to the image to overlay animated snow flakes over […]
Meet Jamie Bianchini of Santa Cruz. I saw Jamie riding his bike Saturday afternoon distributing his 2014 Tide & Light Calendars to local businesses in the vicinity of Brommer and 17th in Santa Cruz. This calendar shows times for sunrise and sunset along with time and depth of high tide and low tide each day, […]