Water From Nowhere, Sandbox Sisterhood, Robots in Color, Smiling Data, and a Frog’s Very Bad Day
Herman Chernoff died at 103 leaving behind two legacies—one that worked beautifully but got no headlines, and one that didn’t work at all but gets the obituary. Kiel University researchers are pulling drinking water from desert air using Nobel Prize-winning chemistry. The humble sandbox turns out to be feminist infrastructure from 1890s Boston. Robots have finally learned to see in color, which might save us or cost us our jobs. And yes, daddy longlegs really do eat frogs. Welcome to the gap between what we expect and what actually happens.
