Five Bullets 11.14.25: November Highlights

What's capturing our attention: Forgotten NYC History, Dave King on Jazz and Creativity, Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, Roadside Picnic, and Space.

Good Morning Friends -

Happy Friday! I’ve been super busy this week here at Circles In Space HQ so I’m sharing a selection of posts and bullets from previous Novembers. Here’s what’s capturing my attention:

• New York City’s Forgotten Island. Barren Island once served a vital industry and was home to a small immigrant community.
  
  

• Drummer Dave King is a Serious Musician. Lessons on Jazz & Creativity from The Bad Plus’s Dave King. (And that’s how you get the gig.)
  
  

• “Sizzling Saturn, we’ve got a lunatic robot on our hands.” In Isaac Asimov’s short story book I, Robot, the Three Laws of Robotics govern machines. What ethics and guidelines govern today’s AI?
  
  

• If We Know Aliens Exist But We Don’t Change, Are We Intelligent? Exploring the profound implications for humanity behind Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s science fiction novel Roadside Picnic.
  
  

• Seems astronomy and space have been frequent bullet topics in past Novembers! NASA’s Artemis moon mission ; The Big Whack theory; photos of Jupiter; and Uranus’s solar winds.
  
  

That’s this week’s bullets! Now it’s your turn: What are you hearing, reading and seeing this November? Email me by hitting reply or leave a comment below.

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See you next week!

Keith.