A Hacker’s Introduction To DIY Light Guide Plates

Last year, I found myself compelled to make a scaled-down replica of the iconic test chamber signs from the video game Portal. If you’ve played the game, you’ll remember these signs as …

AI Midjourney Images “Stairway To Heaven”

This modern era of GPU-accelerated AI applications have their benefits. Pulling useful information out of mountains of raw data, alerting users to driving hazards, or just keeping an eye on bee pop…

Climate stability becomes a relic of the past in B.C. due to loss of hydrologic stationarity

Canadian water-policy expert Robert Sandford says the implications are profound and far-reaching for everyone.

Flying with biofuels produced from “waste oils” destroys biodiversity shows a new French report - Stay Grounded

Family Table

Italy “Our family dinner table was like Speakers’ Corner in London.We discussed, debated, argued, declaimed -all of us at the same time.”- Eugene Thomson Tibet Honduras “Res…

How the infrastructure deal hopes to advance environmental justice

According to the White House, the new law earmarks $240 billion for environmental justice projects — the largest such investment in U.S. history.

Ask Hackaday: If Aliens Came By, Would We Even Notice?

A few years ago we talked about the chance that the first known extrasolar visitor — Oumuamua — might be a derelict solar sail. That notion has been picking up steam in the popular pres…