Category: STEM / STEAM

UPDATE March 2025: My fifth and final test of YouTube TV is here: https://techymike.com/2025/03/06/youtube-tv-test-5-and-final-decision/ The result is…….drum roll……….YouTube TV is now our TV provider and we have a 500 Mbps Internet connection to Xfinity. I had previously tested YouTubeTV a couple of times…..hit the links below to learn more. The first time (when we still…

The James Webb Space Telescope has been made fully operational and has sent back SPECTACULAR images from space! In fact, the telescope is seeing as far back in time as we have ever seen. Truly amazing! Below are a few of those pictures. Go to this web site for a lot more information on these…

Originally posted on TechyMike.com Lets see how well, if at all, Chrome OS Flex works on a very old computer! Lori’s old Toshiba laptop was the greatest thing since the invention of the integrated circuit at the time we purchased it. Now it is a POS. Well, the hardware rocks, but, the Windows software sucks,…

This past month, or two, our Sony A8G TV randomly started losing WiFi connectivity. I think it may be the recent updates, but, I have no way of proving that. If this happens while watching a movie……it SUCKS, as I have to reboot the TV (that is power it off AND disconnect the power cord)…

UPDATE August 25, 2022: All three of my blogs (TechyMike.com, ForCarol.org (this site), and TracyReaderDad.com) have been set-up with Full Site Editing (FSE) and have been working well for the past several months. Feel free to read on, however, for some interesting recent history about learning Full Site Editing (meaning you can now design your…

On Christmas Day, December 25, 2021 at 4:20 AM PST, the James Webb Space Telescope will launch a new era in space exploration. The telescope successfully launched in Christmas Day 2021: With far superior technology than the aging Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to see far into the past…almost…

UPDATE 12/22/2021: Gutenberg was updated to version 12.2.0 today. It STILL does NOT work correctly. Meaning….there is still ZERO whitespace in the left margin! WordPress….can you hear me? 😉 For the last month, or two, I noticed that the whitespace in the left margin as I wrote these blogs was….well……MISSING….making it nearly impossible to see…

Using graphic novels and augmented and virtual reality technology, NASA introduces us to Callie Rodriguez, the first woman to explore the moon. With the upcoming Artemis program liftoff, NASA will, be sending a woman of color to the moon, these stories lead up to that occasion. I grabbed this description from the “First Woman” web…

Here is a very instructive video by Dr. Elizabeth Wayne, Biomedical Engineer, and Kaitlyn Sadtler, PhD, Regenerative Tissue Engineer, describing how mRNA technology COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly. Go here for more TED-Ed videos. I’ll try to grab more STEM / STEAM related videos moving forward for ForCarol.com, Inc. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math…