Jetopetra have developed a new fluidic propulsion system for aircraft that uses coander effect to pull air into a thruster using negative pressure, removing the need for propellers and reach speeds of Mach 0.8.
Less Wrong published an interesting guide on how to engage in rationalist discourse, with some helpful examples on how to upgrade your thinking and statements to be more clear.
Watershed published a list of climate change reading items that they have identified as the most influential on identifying the problem space and solution areas.
Nan Ransohoff published an excellent post describing the different approaches on getting a job in climate change, based on her own journey of switching careers and working on climate removal with Stripe.
Patatap is a fun music game where you can play different clips by tapping on your mobile screen, or typing on your keyboard when viewing the site on a computer.
Want to see what the earth looked like during different epochs? Ancient Earth Globe allows you to pick a time frame and see what the globe looked like back then.
GPTZero is a new service that purports to allow users to detect output generated by ChatGPT, using AI, just like ChatGPT. GPTZero are currently looking for users in education to help them develop a written-by-AI detector.
Researchers from the University of Washington and Stanford University demonstrated a new radio transmitter that uses almost no power to switch the flow of electrons heated by random thermal noise on or off to an antenna.
Hannah Ritchie published an excellent analysis of the emissions of an electric car versus those of a second hand fossil car. When electricity generation is a mix of renewables, the production emissions of an electric car (mainly the battery) are overtaken by the emissions of a fossil car after the second year of driving.
