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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
BEHAVE by Robert M. Sapolsky | Kirkus Reviews
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/robert-m-sapolsky/behave-biology/
Other aspects are located at the intersection of nature and nurture, as with the plummeting U.S. crime rate in the 1990s, attributable in part to accessible abortion—for, as Sapolsky notes, nothing is quite so sure to lead to a life of crime as "being born to a mother who, if she could, would have chosen that you not be."
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Other aspects are located at the intersection of nature and nurture, as with the plummeting U.S. crime rate in the 1990s, attributable in part to accessible abortion—for, as Sapolsky notes, nothing is quite so sure to lead to a life of crime as "being born to a mother who, if she could, would have chosen that you not be."
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NPR: In Public Understanding Of Science, Alternative Facts Are The Norm
In Public Understanding Of Science, Alternative Facts Are The Norm
NPR
If we are committed to combating "alternate facts" in science — as we should be — then we must also combat the alternative theories that license them, says guest blogger Andrew Shtulman. Read the full story
Consider these two widely endorsed misconceptions: that humans are not responsible for climate change (endorsed by around 50 percent of Americans) and that genetically modified foods are dangerous to eat (endorsed by around 60 percent of Americans). The first misconception is a byproduct of our intuitive theories of geology and the second is a byproduct of our intuitive theories of inheritance.
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WIRED: The Father of Android Is Back, and He’s Built the Anti-iPhone
The Father of Android Is Back, and He's Built the Anti-iPhone
WIRED
Andy Rubin sees the future, and can't sit around waiting for it to arrive. Read the full story
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Monday, May 29, 2017
Monty Python's Flying Circus: Just the Words - Episode 14
http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode14.htm
When the Piranhas left school they were called up but were found by an Army Board to be too unstable even for National Service. Denied the opportunity to use their talents in the service of their country, they began to operate what they called 'The Operation'. They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later they hit upon 'The Other Other Operation'. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This for the Piranha brothers was the turning point.
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When the Piranhas left school they were called up but were found by an Army Board to be too unstable even for National Service. Denied the opportunity to use their talents in the service of their country, they began to operate what they called 'The Operation'. They would select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected another victim and threatened not to beat him up if he didn't pay them. One month later they hit upon 'The Other Other Operation'. In this the victim was threatened that if he didn't pay them, they would beat him up. This for the Piranha brothers was the turning point.
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AP Central - Understanding Heritability
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/members/homepage/45829.html
3. Heritability and inherited are nearly the opposite in meaning. This statement is true. Although heritability might seem like it reflects how inherited a trait is, it doesn't do this at all. Actually, it is paradoxical. The more inherited a trait is, the less heritable it is. So if the liberal establishment ever gets schools to be relatively equal in terms of facilities, materials, and instructional staff, then the heritability of student achievement would increase. Although it might seem that inherited events are highly heritable, they are not.
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3. Heritability and inherited are nearly the opposite in meaning. This statement is true. Although heritability might seem like it reflects how inherited a trait is, it doesn't do this at all. Actually, it is paradoxical. The more inherited a trait is, the less heritable it is. So if the liberal establishment ever gets schools to be relatively equal in terms of facilities, materials, and instructional staff, then the heritability of student achievement would increase. Although it might seem that inherited events are highly heritable, they are not.
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Science Magazine: CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations
CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations
Science Magazine
- New York, NY (May 29, 2017) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce hundreds of uninte.. Read the full story
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Sunday, May 28, 2017
The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America - The Atlantic
When the state entered the union in 1859, for example, Oregon explicitly forbade black people from living in its borders, the only state to do so. In more recent times, the city repeatedly undertook "urban renewal" projects (such as the construction of Legacy Emanuel Hospital) that decimated the small black community that existed here.
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Futurism: In Just a Few Short Years, CRISPR Has Sparked a Research Revolution
In Just a Few Short Years, CRISPR Has Sparked a Research Revolution
Futurism
CRISPR is allowing scientists to make great strides in many fields in the relatively short time it's been in use. Advances have been made in medicine, nutrition, biology, and more. Read the full story
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Saturday, May 27, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
How to boost your gut health (no probiotics necessary)
How to boost your gut health (no probiotics necessary)
From The Daily Edition, a Flipboard magazine by The Newsdesk
Conventional wisdom says that if you're dealing with a touchy gut, you should just start taking probiotics and eating more yogurt and sauerkraut.…
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Vox: A Stanford scientist on the biology of human evil
A Stanford scientist on the biology of human evil
Vox
"Our species has problems with violence." —Biologist Robert Sapolsky Read the full story
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Saturday, May 20, 2017
The energy expansions of evolution : Nature Ecology & Evolution
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0138
The history of the life–Earth system can be divided into five 'energetic' epochs, each featuring the evolution of life forms that can exploit a new source of energy. These sources are: geochemical energy, sunlight, oxygen, flesh and fire. The first two were present at the start, but oxygen, flesh and fire are all consequences of evolutionary events
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The history of the life–Earth system can be divided into five 'energetic' epochs, each featuring the evolution of life forms that can exploit a new source of energy. These sources are: geochemical energy, sunlight, oxygen, flesh and fire. The first two were present at the start, but oxygen, flesh and fire are all consequences of evolutionary events
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The Leahey Report: The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
The Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
The Leahey Report
The Diffie-Hellman key exchange is an exchange of a key between two parties where the key ends up being passed in secret. There is no information passed as the main goal is to create an encryption key between the two parties. The key is important because once that is established, information can then be sent along using the encryption algorithm that both parties have already agreed upon. Read the full story
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Friday, May 19, 2017
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell's death ruled a suicide
Check out this article from USA TODAY:
Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell's death ruled a suicide
https://usat.ly/2rtMIxY
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Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell's death ruled a suicide
https://usat.ly/2rtMIxY
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The Value and Virtue of Good Writing (Rule No. 7: Don’t Be a Bore) - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/books/review/do-i-make-myself-clear-harold-evans.html
Writing well is not a mere matter of aesthetics; it is a "moral issue.
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Writing well is not a mere matter of aesthetics; it is a "moral issue.
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Monday, May 15, 2017
Science & Technology Research News: First Spherical Nucleic Acid Drug Injected Into Humans Targets Brain Cancer
First Spherical Nucleic Acid Drug Injected Into Humans Targets Brain Cancer
Science & Technology Research News
The first drug using spherical nucleic acids to be systemically given to humans has been developed by Northwestern University scientists and approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an investigational new drug for an early-stage clinical trial in the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme. A clinical trial has just been launched at the Robert... Read the full story
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10 songs you need to hear right now: LCD Soundsystem, Big Sean, Serene Dominic, Playboy Manbaby, Waxahatchee
Check out this article from azcentral:
10 songs you need to hear right now: LCD Soundsystem, Big Sean, Serene Dominic, Playboy Manbaby, Waxahatchee
http://azc.cc/2qXqZy5
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10 songs you need to hear right now: LCD Soundsystem, Big Sean, Serene Dominic, Playboy Manbaby, Waxahatchee
http://azc.cc/2qXqZy5
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Sunday, May 14, 2017
Saturday, May 13, 2017
The Wall Street Journal: For $10.69, British Researcher Slows Global Cyberattack
For $10.69, British Researcher Slows Global Cyberattack
The Wall Street Journal
Cybercrime experts credit an unidentified British researcher with stumbling onto a "kill switch" which helped slow the spread of a computer worm that victimized the U.K.'s National Health Service and others. Read the full story
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Alexandra Sokoloff: CHINATOWN - Act Two, part one breakdown
http://www.screenwritingtricks.com/2009/03/chinatown-act-two-part-two-breakdown.html
Note that there's no real reason that Ida Sessions would know anything about the Albacore Club, but this is what Hitchcock called a "ham sandwich" – a plot hole that you only think about after the movie, when you're in your robe and standing in your kitchen about to bite into a ham sandwich…)
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Note that there's no real reason that Ida Sessions would know anything about the Albacore Club, but this is what Hitchcock called a "ham sandwich" – a plot hole that you only think about after the movie, when you're in your robe and standing in your kitchen about to bite into a ham sandwich…)
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Complexity: Decoding deep similarities : Nature : Nature Research
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v545/n7653/full/545154a.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews&sf78118478=1&sf78340687=1
This blind belief in innovation as a panacea is, as West points out, often coupled to misapprehension or even denial of the costs of open-ended growth, such as climate change. At best, such issues are swept under the carpet as "externalities", market failures that pose a nuisance for economic accounting. An economics afflicted by such attitudes is not even a dismal science; it's a pseudoscience.
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This blind belief in innovation as a panacea is, as West points out, often coupled to misapprehension or even denial of the costs of open-ended growth, such as climate change. At best, such issues are swept under the carpet as "externalities", market failures that pose a nuisance for economic accounting. An economics afflicted by such attitudes is not even a dismal science; it's a pseudoscience.
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Friday, May 12, 2017
US spymasters trash Kaspersky: AV tools can't be trusted, we've stuck a probe in them
US spymasters trash Kaspersky: AV tools can't be trusted, we've stuck a probe in them
Eugene shouts back: Gimme the mic and let me testifyFive US spy bosses, and the acting FBI chief, today told the…
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HuffPost: Does Meditation Really Help With Depression And Anxiety?
Does Meditation Really Help With Depression And Anxiety?
HuffPost
The Question: I experience depression and anxiety. Will meditation really help me? ... Read the full story
Mindfulness meditation is based on the idea of paying attention one's own inner experience, whether that's thoughts or sensations or emotions," she told HuffPost. "Anything that passes through the mind is the internal stimuli that you're paying attention to."
Ideally, with enough practice, you'll learn to create space between negative thoughts and your reactions.
"See them as distinct objects from yourself," Hoge said. "As in, 'My thoughts are not myself.' That allows a layer of separation so that the person has a little bit more freedom in how to respond to the thoughts or how to cope with them."
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Intel Free Press: Microsoft Outlines Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning on Intel FPGAs
Microsoft Outlines Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning on Intel FPGAs
Intel Free Press
At Build, Microsoft's annual developers conference, taking place this week, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich disclosed major advances in Microsoft's hyperscale deployment of Intel® field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). These advances have resulted in the industry's fastest public cloud network, and new technology for acceleration of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that replicate "thinking" in a manner that's conceptually similar to that of the human brain. Russinovich said the advances offer " Read the full story
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
Ars Technica: Intel’s Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead
Intel's Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead
Ars Technica
Final "Kittson" processors are drop-in replacements for older chips. Read the full story
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TechRepublic: Cray launches new supercomputers that can run AI workloads more effectively
Cray launches new supercomputers that can run AI workloads more effectively
TechRepublic
Two new cluster supercomputers from Cray offer accelerator-optimized solutions for machine learning and deep learning applications. Read the full story
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The Verge: Microsoft just made it easier to create iOS and Android apps with Windows
Microsoft just made it easier to create iOS and Android apps with Windows
The Verge
At Build 2017, Microsoft showed off the cross-platform power of its .NET framework, by demonstrating how apps could be easily created on a Windows PC and work on iOS, Android, and Windows all... Read the full story
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Betsy DeVos is booed for a reason. Or two. Or three
Betsy DeVos is booed for a reason. Or two. Or three
From Comment is Free, a Flipboard magazine by The Guardian
The secretary of education faced jeers when she spoke at Bethune-Cookman University. And rightly so There are many reasons why one might jeer…
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Developer Tech: NVIDIA will teach deep-learning skills to 100,000 developers in 2017 as part of AI push
NVIDIA will teach deep-learning skills to 100,000 developers in 2017 as part of AI push
Developer Tech
NVIDIA has announced plans to train 100,000 developers this year in deep-learning skills to help reach its ambitions to be an industry-leader in artificial intelligence. Over the past week, NVIDIA has made several AI-related announcements including unveiling the NVIDIA Metropolis intelligent video analytics platform which intends to make "cities safer and smarter by applying deep learning to video streams for applications such as public safety, traffic management, and resource optimisation." Read the full story
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Kiplinger: Is Intel's Buying Binge a Good Thing?
Is Intel's Buying Binge a Good Thing?
Kiplinger
Intel's purchase of Mobileye is its second mega-deal in the past two years, but Intel doesn't have a stellar history when it comes to big acquisitions. Read the full story
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Tuesday, May 09, 2017
An evolutionary biologist misrepresents sexual selection in The New York Times « Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/an-evolutionary-biologist-misrepresents-sexual-selection/
While Darwin's "aesthetic" theory can be modified to take into account pre-existing female preferences that are either evolved or the byproduct of some other evolved trait (Ronald Fisher was responsible for this advance), in itself it doesn't explain much. Darwin was correct, though, that female preferences can cause males to evolve traits that hurt the males' survival (as in the elaborate tails of peacocks), so long as the males' loss in "fitness" due to survival costs is more than compensated by their gain in fitness due to females mating more often with males having exaggerated calls, behaviors, or ornaments.
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While Darwin's "aesthetic" theory can be modified to take into account pre-existing female preferences that are either evolved or the byproduct of some other evolved trait (Ronald Fisher was responsible for this advance), in itself it doesn't explain much. Darwin was correct, though, that female preferences can cause males to evolve traits that hurt the males' survival (as in the elaborate tails of peacocks), so long as the males' loss in "fitness" due to survival costs is more than compensated by their gain in fitness due to females mating more often with males having exaggerated calls, behaviors, or ornaments.
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An evolutionary biologist misrepresents sexual selection in The New York Times « Why Evolution Is True
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/an-evolutionary-biologist-misrepresents-sexual-selection/
The first, which Darwin called "the law of battle," was correct: males are larger and have weapons or features that enable them to compete for females, as when elephant seals or elk fight it out for mates. The ultimate cause of this difference, which I've described before, is the difference in gamete size between the sexes (sperm vs eggs), which ultimately leads to females being a scarce resource for which males have to compete
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The first, which Darwin called "the law of battle," was correct: males are larger and have weapons or features that enable them to compete for females, as when elephant seals or elk fight it out for mates. The ultimate cause of this difference, which I've described before, is the difference in gamete size between the sexes (sperm vs eggs), which ultimately leads to females being a scarce resource for which males have to compete
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Vox: America has a water crisis no one is talking about
America has a water crisis no one is talking about
Vox
Outdated infrastructure is making water too expensive for millions of families. Read the full story
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Boing Boing: Intel declared war on general purpose computing and lost, so now all our computers are broken
Intel declared war on general purpose computing and lost, so now all our computers are broken
Boing Boing
It's been a year since we warned that Intel's Management Engine -- a separate computer within your own computer, intended to verify and supervise the main system -- presented a terrifying, unauditable security risk that could lead to devastating, unstoppable attacks. Guess what happened next? (more…) Read the full story
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Montini: Publicly shaming Flake over privacy sell-out
Montini: Publicly shaming Flake over privacy sell-out
http://azc.cc/2pgkUQS
Monday, May 08, 2017
WIRED: Brian Greene on How Science Became a Political Prisoner
Brian Greene on How Science Became a Political Prisoner
WIRED
The author of The Fabric of the Cosmos, and other bestsellers, says America needs rational thinkers to step up and help fix its relationship with facts. Read the full story
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Saturday, May 06, 2017
Thursday, May 04, 2017
SlashGear: Inside Intel’s big plan to seize the wheel in self-driving cars
Inside Intel's big plan to seize the wheel in self-driving cars
SlashGear
Autonomous driving is coming, and unsurprisingly Intel believes it should be at the heart of it. At the former Altera facility in San Jose, California, the company better known for powering your laptop and PC outlined its vision for driverless cars over the coming years. While collaboration is the name of Intel's game, make no mistake: it sees this as a prime opportunity to sell more silicon. "We think this is a place where we can be close to potential partners, potential startups," Kathy Winter Read the full story
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Intel Free Press: Intel Will Succeed in Autonomous Driving. I Bet My Career on It.
Intel Will Succeed in Autonomous Driving. I Bet My Career on It.
Intel Free Press
By Doug Davis Every morning for more than 30 years, I have climbed out of bed to go work at Intel. But never in those 30 years have I been more excited to do so than I am right now leading Intel's autonomous vehicle team. Don't get me wrong – I've had an absolutely wonderful career and have worked on some programs that have had a significant impact on the world around us. But the chance to solve one of the most complex technology challenges of our time, the opportunity to help the auto industry Read the full story
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Wednesday, May 03, 2017
The Ethics of Belief: The Great English Mathematician and Philosopher William Kingdon Clifford on the Discipline of Doubt and How We Can Trust a Truth
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct,"
The Ethics of Belief: The Great English Mathematician and Philosopher William Kingdon Clifford on the Discipline of Doubt and How We Can Trust a Truth
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Intel patches remote hijacking vulnerability that lurked in chips for 7 years | Ars Technica
Intel patches remote hijacking vulnerability that lurked in chips for 7 years | Ars Technica
From Technology, a Flipboard magazine by Flipboard Newsdesk
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HuffPost: Ivanka Trump's 'Vapid' New Book Earns A Series Of Savage Reviews
Ivanka Trump's 'Vapid' New Book Earns A Series Of Savage Reviews
HuffPost
The reviews are in: Ivanka Trump's new book is "vapid" at worst, "earnest" at best, and "a strawberry milkshake of inspirational quotes" somewhere in between. ... Read the full story
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Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Monday, May 01, 2017
The World’s Best River Cruises
The World's Best River Cruises
From Flipboard Picks, a Flipboard magazine by Flipboard
As ocean cruise ships get larger -- and become packed with even more over-the-top amenities -- river cruises offer a more intimate alternative to see the world by sea.…
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