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I live near Seattle, in Washington state, on the west coast of the USA. I concentrate on writing and improving articles in my areas of interest: electronics, physics, horology, history of technology, pacifism, and international folk dance. I specialize in making STEM articles more understandable for the general reader, as I feel WP has a problem in this area. Another interest is combating pseudoscience in WP articles.
"Those who tell the stories rule society" - Plato
Through no desire of our own, Wikipedia is becoming a gatekeeper of the stories that the world tells itself, and believes. We have a heavy responsibility to make sure these are true stories (facts) and not false stories (misinformation, fake news, disinformation, propaganda, bigotry, slander, rumors, myths, pseudoscience). Because the rest of social media has chosen a business model in which their income depends on users spreading false stories.
Facebook's corporate slogan: "Move fast and break things"
Katharine Mahar, director WMF: "
We move slow and build things"
Wheel train (horology) | Quartz fiber dosimeter | Lesnoto | Tropanka | Faraday's ice pail experiment | Conformal antenna | Black Box (Jennifer Egan story) | Stackfreed | Passive sign convention | Goldschmidt alternator | Horatio Saint George Anson | Corner reflector antenna | Eugène Ducretet | Two capacitor paradox | FoxBlade
Verge escapement | Balance wheel | Cavendish experiment | Torsion spring | Glucydur | Elinvar | Gyromax | Torsion pendulum clock | Meter (electronics) | Bob (physics) | Fusee (horology) | Mainspring | Pendulum clock | Repeater (horology) | Ratchet (device) | Barrel (horology) | Mechanical watch | Electrophorus | Electroscope | Stepped Reckoner | Automatic watch | Wilberforce pendulum | Clockwork radio | Induction coil | Simple machine | Parasitic capacitance | Riefler escapement | Remontoire | Anchor escapement | Electrostatic induction | Pin pallet escapement | Bracket clock | Movement (clockwork) | Self-powered equipment | Crystal oven | Electromagnet | Saturation (magnetic) | Oudin coil | Crookes tube | Superconducting magnet | Utility pole | Distribution transformer | Observation | Background Radiation Equivalent Time | Barkhausen Stability Criterion | Kundt's tube | Schuler tuning | Node (physics) | Lecher lines | Mu-metal | Linear circuit | Pendulum | Cathode ray | Lodestone | Kater's pendulum | Shortt-synchronome clock | Horn antenna | Parabolic antenna | Antenna aperture | RF front end | Antenna feed | Counterpoise (ground system) | Whip antenna | Screw (simple machine)| | Cassegrain antenna | A Perfect Spy | Electric clock | Optical flat | Mechanically powered flashlight | Project Sanguine | Evolved antenna | Offset dish antenna | Corner reflector | T-aerial | Proximity card | Ground plane | Corona ring | Ground dipole | Pravo | Peter Henlein | State (computer science) | Memory refresh | Tesla coil | Attack model | Inclined plane | Motorboating (electronics) | Oersted's law | Pearson-Anson effect | Negative resistance | Wireless power | Dynatron oscillator | Oudin coil | Radio receiver | Crystal detector | Spark gap transmitter | Mast radiator | Radiation resistance | Umbrella antenna | Lens antenna | Permendur | Antenna feed | Suppressor grid | Electronic oscillator
Thermal efficiency | Harmonic oscillator | Watch | Escapement | Resonance | Quartz clock | Longcase clock | Crystal oscillator | Resonator | Atmos clock | Clock face | Tuning fork | Church bell | X-ray tube | X-ray | Electrical generator | Dictation machine | Typewriter | Dynamo | Colpitts oscillator | Clockmaker | Pocket watch | Astronomical clock | Striking clock | Complication (horology) | Intermediate frequency | Tesla coil | History of timekeeping devices | LC circuit | Clock | Weighing scale | Weight | Energy level | Double-slit experiment | Pulley | James Lick telescope | Hale telescope | Brownian ratchet | Lantern clock | Electric watch | Tourbillon | Cooper pair | Twin lead | Insulator (electrical) | Dosimeter | Ionizing radiation | Displacement current | Magnet | Coaxial cable | The Roads Must Roll | The Menace from Earth | Space Jockey (short story) | Kachina | Chindi | Rare earth magnet | Neodymium magnet | Alnico | Ferromagnetism | Charge conservation | Salisbury screen | Heterodyne | Cat's whisker detector | Crystal radio | Monopole antenna | Omnidirectional antenna | Helical antenna | Transmitter | Doppler effect | Electric bell | Doorbell | Magnetic domain | Electronic oscillator | Finite state machine | DSL modem | Semiconductor memory | Reductio ad absurdam | Buridan's ass | Interrupt | Megaphone | Curtain array | Inductor | Triode | AM broadcasting | Relaxation oscillator
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