We all dream of freedom and happiness — America has a long and troubled history of supporting the powerful and abusing the weak. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants have enslaved Africans and gained independence from the British crown only to build new cronyistic dynasties. Racism and White Supremacy are one American identity. It’s not the only one. In Hollywood, the…

Let’s support social justice and freedom of speech — Whether you like it or not, the term woke has become counter-productive. Whether it means “1.a. aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)” or “2. politically liberal (as in matters of racial and social justice) especially in a way…

ChatGPT, Bard, and I walk into a bar… — It did not take too long for Google to come up with a rival for ChatGPT. It’s called Bard, and I got to try it. A few weeks ago, I asked ChatGPT the following: What do you think about this article: https://medium.com/@jacquag/vitality-fluid-c825a2853a14 ? The answer proved ChatGPT was drunk. And…

Photonics is coming to the rescue — Data centers — buildings full of computers that run all these applications you use on a daily basis from your preferred electronic devices, including what you’re using right now as you’re reading this, as well as more and more business and government applications — are estimated to consume about one…

Enabling a Circular Economy with Lithium-Ion Batteries made from recycled materials — It is sometimes hard not to despair as more frequent extreme weather events destroy lives and formal reports regularly outline how far we are from meeting the Paris agreement objectives to prevent the Earth’s temperature from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius. The good news is that despite the headlines, we…

As a parent, you want the best for your children. You tend to think that what you do or don’t do is what will make them or break them. The truth is that we have a very limited direct influence on our children’s development. Besides the DNA we transmit to…

Towards a Car Race Theory — Trigger alert: some readers might find this somewhat witty article to trigger mixed if not painful emotions, especially if they’re victims of real forms of discrimination. I hope this article might help others better understand why that could be the case. Have you ever considered the amount of space and…

I asked the following question to ChatGPT: What do you think about this article: https://medium.com/@jacquag/vitality-fluid-c825a2853a14 ? Here is the answer I got: As an AI language model, I don’t have personal thoughts or opinions, but I can analyze the article you linked to and provide you with a summary. The…

Could death possibly be non-binary? — As a middle-aged man who grew up during the Cold War, I saw the world shifting from binary to fluid. It might shock many that my childhood was a world of rightful capitalists against threatening communists, and kids playing cowboys against “indians.” We were either a boy or a girl…