See: GB, XIV, 1
Published in December, this issue of Gardner’s Beacon represents a busy year with respect to our usual business and additional responsibilities accruing via the changes in technology. The following are a few highlights from the year, via posts.
More than STEM, we need MSET+ – Dr. Alfred L. Gardner was honored by the College of Science at LSU in April. Our post looks at open and pending issues related to technology which will be a recurring theme.
Human intuition – The U.S. DoD Department of Defense has a huge hand in how technology and its ramificaitions unfold. With respect to GenAI/LLM, the DoD has stressed that providing assistance to and aiding human intuition ought to be a key focus.
Restart, somewhat – Considers what the status of our knowledge of origins might be and continues the discussion of research opportunities.
Birthplace of the US Navy – The 250th for several events will happen in 2024. Lexington and Concord will celebrate the initial friction that carried over into Siege of Boston which went into 2026. The U.S. Army, Navy and Marines will be 250 years old.
Alice, of the Nantucket bunch – We continue our look at descendants of Thomas and Margaret. The protrayer of the character Alice on Brady Bunch has Nantucket roots. Of late, we have considered collateral families under the guise of connections to Massachusetts as well as to New England.
Josiah Willard Gibbs – Josiah represents early American contributions to science. His chemical work was instrumental in the development of the theories and practices of thermodynamics. A famed cohort was James Clerk Maxwell of the equations of electromagnetic theory.