Suction Buckets

Going through the news flow of LinkedIN, I saw a home experiment for kids. The mother used a simple experiment to show her kids what a suction bucket was. She had an aquarium with sand covered by water. She inserted a coke can with the top cut off. Then she inserted a straw into the…

Facial UNrecognition! “Keep your cameras off my face!”

Not everyone wants to be facially recognized.  We sympathize with those who feel that facial recognition has the look and feel of invasion of privacy. If China is monitoring jaywalking with facial recognition cameras, and Germany is loading passengers with facial boarding passes, and many US companies are using facial recognition for monitoring employee attendance,…

Travel Languages

Machine Translation of Chinese to English from Microsoft For me, one of the more enjoyable aspects of traveling in Belarus is that of the language. While a high percentage of the people there speak the national language of Belarussian, even more speak Russian. I am not fluent in Russian, but can obtain food and lodging,…