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It's called "soap tree" because a solution of the extract makes foam, like soap. This is not, however a saponified fat or an alkali that will saponify fat. It is a molecule with a hydrophilic part tied to a lipophilic part.

Another example from pharmacy is the common blood pressure drug olmesartan/medoxomil, where lipophilic olmesartan is tied to hydrophilic medoxomil, with an interesting bridge. The bridge is diacetyl, aka butter popcorn artificial flavor. Sniff a bottle of Benicar (or generic) tablets, and if your nose is as sensitive as mine to diacetyl, you'll smell it.

What's new? The menu looks at you before you look at the menu.

I had trips to north shore Maui in 2010 before the Jam. 2011 plastic bag ban there, and again a couple of years after the ban. There were extensive stands of sugar cane near the highway, and these accumulated conspicuously large numbers of bags blown by trade winds into the cane stands. In a subsequent trip a couple of years after the ban, the festoons and tangles of bags were gone. I believe sugar cane growing subsequently stopped (Pu'unene mill closed).

Our RCA TV had a habit of blowing a 6SN7 at inconvenient times. I convinced my dad to keep a spare.

Looking for videos after reading your linked post same-day, one had a clip from a manufacturing test of RAT deployment. It sounded very much like the Air India video.

Way back when I first learned of heads-up displays, I imagined that they could be useful in wiring harness and hydraulic installation and maintenance in close quarters in aircraft and ships. I might've been influenced at an early age, by crawling around inside the local playground F-86 engineless jet with its mysterious wires and tubes, and realizing that it was much more complicated than my plastic model kits.

This is not inference. It is at best autoconjecture. Polly wanna syllogism.

HP instrumentation was forked off as Agilent then as Keysight.

I overheard someone ordering a "flat white" the other day. All I could think of to meet this description, apart from paint, was Ally McBeal. Not remembering the actress's name, I searched and determined that it was Calista Flockhart, that she is married to Harrison Ford, and that they have an adopted son named Liam.

The search offered a drop-down to answer the burning already answered question about whether Liam was adopted. Unable to resist, I took the bait. The "AI" answer included this hallucinated statement: "Harrison and Calista began dating Liam when he was around eight months old, and they have been together ever since."

I got this when I threw a Magic 8 Ball at NASA, though it has gained an additional profanity here. It's almost like particle physics revealing an excited state of a turdon.

I studied Spanish in US grades 6-12. Even by grade 8, teachers who had experience in Peace Corps or other foreign service, noted at least the existence of variations of pronunciations and cadence. Yo/Joe was specifically called out, as was a tendency for rapid cadence in Cuban speech. Exposure to Los Angeles street Spanish brought some additional knowledge of diverse profanities. Lesson of greatest enduring value: teachers who had been in Spain during the Franco era, had a tendency to look around and lower their voices before relating certain experiences.

Philosophy and linguistics are the realms best qualified to assess ethics, and source and inferential soundness for whatever is passing as "AI" this week. Philosophers are not lavishly paid, and train for skepticism and rigor. I trust their perspective on issues of ethics and soundness, more than I would trust that of anyone engulfed in the hype, cash, and gigawatt tsunami. I worked for a poorly funded MA Phil. years ago, who believed that corporations should have a philosopher on staff for guidance in ethics.

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This is not a joke. My local CSU campus, after 20+ years of bad management and fancy construction projects amidst declining enrollment, has abruptly discontinued the Physics major and the Philosophy major, among others.