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--- lctg_in_the_works [2026.02.09 07:14] – Steve Isenberg
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-|T~~#@1~~|Further consideration: Can we do anything more about climate change? Do we want to get into data collection and looking at whether the data we use now are applicable to the long-range questions about climate change? Are data sets really applicable to the problem we are studying? Ted Kochanski and Jerry Harris have proposed doing more about this topic. Still following up with the group about the nature of our interests on this topic.|Keep on list? Push to future.|
+|T~~#@1~~|Further consideration: Can we do anything more about climate change? Do we want to get into data collection and looking at whether the data we use now are applicable to the long-range questions about climate change? Are data sets really applicable to the problem we are studying? Jerry Harris has proposed doing more about this topic. Still following up with the group about the nature of our interests on this topic.|Keep on list? Push to future.|
 |T~~#@1~~|Development of car navigation devices starting in ~1910 and evolving to the present day using digital computers, map database, and GPX. (Donald Cooke)|[4/27/24] Cooke not sure when he can present|
 |T~~#@1~~|The development of photogrammetry from ~1930 to the current state of the art using a $500 ”toy” drone and free software to produce orthophotography 50 or more times as detailed as the imagery in Google Maps and Google Earth. (Donald Cooke)|[4/27/24] Cooke not sure when he can present|
-|T~~#@1~~|[TENTATIVE to 1/7/26] Current state of autonomous driving. \\ Justin Tse may be able to talk about automatic driving capabilities in Tesla cars.|steve|
+|T~~#@1~~|Water (particulate) Junk and How To Remove It; drugs in the water| |
-|T~~#@1~~|Water Junk and How To Remove It| |
-|T~~#@1~~|Micro-plastics - whatsit, wheresit, and whatchagonnado about it| |
-|T~~#@1~~|Asteroid Colliding with Earth? (Maybe tie-in with Space Junk)|(JohnR)|
 |T~~#@1~~|Museum in Lexington focusing on the Apollo program. [[https://lexobserver.org/2025/01/02/how-a-lexington-resident-built-a-museum-to-apollo-11-in-his-own-home/|1/2/2025 article]] Maybe invite the several Lex residents who were members of the MIT Draper Lab to talk to our group.|Harry|
-|T~~#@1~~|Computer Transforms used in AI (suggested by Dick Wagner)| |
+|T~~#@1~~|Computer Transforms used in AI (suggested by Dick Wagner; wait till Lei(sp) is ready)| |
-|T~~#@1~~|Twistronics. Stacking. Started with Graphine. 3-4-5 layers. (<del>Ted &</del> Dick)| |
+|T~~#@1~~|Twistronics. Stacking. Started with Graphine. 3-4-5 layers. (Dick)| |
-|T~~#@1~~|Security. Things you can do to protect yourself and your technology|steve|
+|T~~#@1~~|Security. Things you can do to protect yourself, your technology, your finances -- on the cheap|steve|
-|T~~#@1~~|Visit the World of Wiki. What's a Wiki? How does LCTG's Wiki work? How can I have my own Wiki?|steve|
 |T~~#@1~~|Using AI to help overcome difficulties, e.g., in spreadsheets| |
+|T~~#@1~~|Install a Virtual Machine running Linux on your MacBook for fun and to learn something new (e.g., Linux) |steve|
+|T~~#@1~~|An agent you can talk to about getting things done on your computer; uses VMs; does stuff for you|Harry|
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   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4|(1h39) Breakthrough in nuclear fusion?]] (2/24/2016 by Prof. Dennis Whyte of MIT) (Larry Wittig)
   - [[https://youtu.be/AL2Chc6p_Kk|(18.5m) uniform circular motion]] suggested by our own Charles Holbrow.
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VnbBCm_ZyQ|(1h44m) CEO Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics]] (video of a podcast?)
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ECwExc-_M|(40s) Boston Dynamics new humanoid robot]]
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnhIUa5r28Q|(8.5m) How does Boston Dynamics' new Atlas robot work?]]
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   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw696JVSxJQ|(10.5m) Elon Musk's colossus Supercomputer]]
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17Y82tJDk2o|(11.5m) MIT Discovery: Photo Molecular Effect]]
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD9Njacdqk8|(42m) Dealing with Space Junk]]
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpzg8snj0M4|(4m) Space Sustainability - MIT Challenges]]
   - [[https://youtu.be/n-UQxfgFEe4|(13m) The Copernican Principle: the foundation of ALL of cosmology (Dr. B.)]] advert in intro
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   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv8wqnk_TsA|(5m) Nicest car horn ever DIY. Mark Rober]]
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwgaTYOx0RI|(11m) Escape Rooms, approach to solving them. Mark Rober]]
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTDFhWWPZ4Q|(37m) Amelia Earhart]] (Rudy) Vertasium
   - [[https://youtu.be/U068p4RMgew|(6m) A New Ice Age For Europe Is Becoming More Likely]] Hossenfelder
   - [[https://youtu.be/HEWMwnCZHJY|(6m) Fact Check: Did Physicists Really ”Quash” the Multiverse Idea?]] Hossenfelder
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   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06-iq-0yJNM|(46m) What Creates Consciousness?]] WSF/Brian Greene
   - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56PMJbCFXQ|(34m) The Most Dangerous Building in Manhattan]] - How a single phone call from a student helped uncover a flaw that nearly toppled Citicorp.
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7lad5a4XhI&t=54s|(16m) How Long is a Day? (Tyson)]] (JohnR)
+  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7lad5a4XhI&t=54s|(16m) How Long is a Day? (Tyson)]] (JohnR)\\  \\ **WSJ The Tech Behind series (Mitch) (d/l on M)**
-  - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD7_jelvxew|(1h21) Putting the ”Bang” in the Big Bang]] (1h47 w/q&a) Alan Guth (John Rudy) \\  \\ **WSJ The Tech Behind series (Mitch) (d/l on M)**
   - (9m30) The Complex Engineering Behind Firework-Firing Drones [[https://www.wsj.com/video/series/tech-behind/the-complex-engineering-behind-firework-firing-drones/66E6155C-F175-453B-AC8F-1E67BC77AE4B?mod=WSJvidctr__pos0|link]] \\  .
   - (19m) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjDYfvPW4mA|What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planes]] (Vertasium)
-  - (35m) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8|How do QR Codes Work?]] (Vertasium)
   - (22m) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ8ehplVFp4|Escalator Failure: The Science of Escalators]] (Vertasium)
+  - (24m)[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_QK4stCJU|Overconfidence]] Vertasium
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   - (**Harry**) Getting Streaming Programming Into Your TV (what to do when your TV just isn't smart enough)
   - [orig sched 7/28/2021] CERN and the Hadron Collider. History, Why It Was Built, Hoped Outcomes, Discovery of Bison, What is Next (Harvey Newman, professor Cal Tech). Harvey will introduce the status and outlook for the LHC, its past and present and near term outlook, and provide a panorama of the future including some of the leading programs. (John Rudy)
-  - [orig sched 8/25/2021] Archeology presented by Jeffrey Rose (archeologist) in Israel (Stan Rose) \\ //Stan R to fup//</hidden>
+  - [orig sched 8/25/2021] Archeology presented by Jeffrey Rose (archeologist) in Israel (Stan Rose) \\ //Stan R to fup//
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