Friday, November 11, 2016

Stephen Smith shared a link: Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit


Those who have been warning of the grave dangers these powers pose have often been dismissed on the ground that the leaders who control this system are benevolent and well-intentioned. They have thus often resorted to the tactic of urging people to imagine what might happen if a president they regarded as less than benevolent one day gained control of it. That day has arrived. One hopes this will at least provide the impetus to unite across ideological and partisan lines to finally impose meaningful limits on these powers that should never have been vested in the first place. That commitment should start now.

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America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny -- NYMag

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html


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Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

http://www2.nybooks.com/daily/s3/nov/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival.html


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Basket of deplorables

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/how_democrats_can_appeal_to_trump_voters.html


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Thursday, November 10, 2016

Stephen Smith shared a link: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What it means to be black during a Trump administration - The Washington Post



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America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny -- NYMag

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/04/america-tyranny-donald-trump.html


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History Tells Us What Will Happen Next With Brexit And Trump | The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tobias-stone/history-tells-us-what-will-brexit-trump_b_11179774.html


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Stephen Smith shared a link: How Facebook’s news feed algorithm works.

How Facebook's news feed algorithm works. from Will Oremus's Tweet

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Stephen Smith shared a link: Hyperpartisan Facebook Pages Are Publishing False And Misleading Information At An Alarming Rate - BuzzFeed News



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Stephen Smith shared a link: 12 Trump promises and how he could fulfill them - The Washington Post



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Stephen Smith shared a link: I’m a Muslim, a woman and an immigrant. I voted for Trump. - The Washington Post



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Stephen Smith shared a link: Speaking Out After the Presidential Election? We’ve Got a Few Tips - FIRE



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Stephen Smith shared a link: Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems | Books | The Guardian



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Why more than 80 million Americans won’t vote on Election Day - Vox

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/7/13536198/election-day-americans-vote


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Behind Trump's victory: Divisions by race, gender and education | Pew Research Center

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/

In the 2016 election, a wide gap in presidential preferences emerged between those with and without a college degree. College graduates backed Clinton by a 9-point margin (52%-43%), while those without a college degree backed Trump 52%-44%. This is by far the widest gap in support among college graduates and non-college graduates in exit polls dating back to 1980. For example, in 2012, there was hardly any difference between the two groups: College graduates backed Obama over Romney by 50%-48%, and those without a college degree also supported Obama 51%-47%.

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Stephen Smith shared a link: Trump and Brexit: why it’s again NOT the economy, stupid | British Politics and Policy at LSE



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Saturday, November 05, 2016

Stephen Smith shared a link: Top Ten Books to Give to Adolescent Boys Who Say They “Hate Reading” by Oona Marie Abrams | Nerdy Book Club



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The New York Times: Should We Be Scared of Butter?

Simply substituting 5 percent of calories from saturated fats with the equivalent amount of polyunsaturated fats reduced total deaths by 27 percent, and replacing saturates with monounsaturates (from foods like olive and canola oil, nuts and avocados) reduced deaths by 13 percent. Omega-3 fatty acids from fish also "modestly" lowered total mortality, the researchers found.
However, when saturated fats were consumed in place of carbohydrates, there was no significant drop in cardiovascular death rates and slightly higher death rates from cancer

Should We Be Scared of Butter?
The New York Times

It's back on the table, but not in the quantities the meat, dairy and fast-food industries might have you ingest. Read the full story


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Friday, November 04, 2016

MIT Technology Review: Machines Can Now Recognize Something After Seeing It Once


Machines Can Now Recognize Something After Seeing It Once
MIT Technology Review

Most of us can recognize an object after seeing it once or twice. But the algorithms that power computer vision and voice recognition need thousands of examples to become familiar with each new image or word. Researchers at Google DeepMind now have a way around this. They made a few clever tweaks to a deep-learning algorithm that allows it to recognize objects in images and other things from a single example—something known as "one-shot learning." The team demonstrated the trick on a large Read the full story


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How to Get Beyond Our Tribal Politics - WSJ

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-get-beyond-our-tribal-politics-1478271810


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Stephen Smith shared a link: Five Independent Signs Of New Physics In The Universe



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How To Change Filters In A Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration System (RO)

Check out this video on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/j1gdMBCDVI4


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Friday, October 28, 2016

The Ethics of Globalism, Nationalism, and Patriotism | Center for Humans & Nature

http://www.humansandnature.org/the-ethics-of-globalism-nationalism-and-patriotism#.WBPBovqz_aZ.twitter


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Stephen Smith shared a link: 'This is slavery': U.S. inmates strike in what activists call one of the biggest prison protests in modern history - LA Times



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Unpacking Pot’s Impact in Colorado

http://www.factcheck.org/2016/08/unpacking-pots-impact-in-colorado/


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Quotes | Robert Egger

http://www.robertegger.org/writing/quotes


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Rheumatology Advisor: US Healthcare System Ranks Among Least Efficient in World


US Healthcare System Ranks Among Least Efficient in World
Rheumatology Advisor

The US health care system is one of the least efficient worldwide based on a Bloomberg index that assesses life expectancy, health care spending per capita, and relative spending as a share of gross domestic product Read the full story


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Bloomberg: Americans Are Dying Faster. Millennials, Too


Americans Are Dying Faster. Millennials, Too
Bloomberg

People who predict death for a living have some bad news. Read the full story


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Empirical Studies About Religious Service Attendance and Health | Depressive Disorders | JAMA Internal Medicine | The JAMA Network

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2521823


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Religion may be a miracle drug: Column

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Religion may be a miracle drug: Column

http://usat.ly/2eCspv5


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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

iotscanner.bullguard.com: Internet of Things (IoT) Scanner - BullGuard


Internet of Things (IoT) Scanner - BullGuard
iotscanner.bullguard.com

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ScienceBlog.com: Researchers find weakness in common computer chip


Researchers find weakness in common computer chip
ScienceBlog.com

Researchers from Binghamton University–State University of New York and the University of California, Riverside have found a weakness in the Haswell central processing unit (CPU) components that makes common computer operating systems vulnerable to malicious attacks. Computer hackers could take control of individual, company and government computers if a weak point in address space layout […] Read the full story


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the guardian: Ethics and genetics: opening the book of life – Science Weekly podcast


Ethics and genetics: opening the book of life – Science Weekly podcast
the guardian

When it comes to the ethics of genetic technologies who decides how far we should go in our pursuit for perfection? Read the full story


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Baby sleep

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/10/24/the_aap_s_new_advice_on_sids_prevention_makes_parents_lives_easier.html


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Friday, October 21, 2016

The Washington Post: The awkward thing that happened when scientists asked a computer to tell Asian faces apart


The awkward thing that happened when scientists asked a computer to tell Asian faces apart
The Washington Post

To be Asian in America is to be quizzed, constantly, about your ethnicity. Read the full story


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Thursday, October 20, 2016

1reddrop.com: Microsoft AI Achieves 'Human-level' Accuracy in Speech Recognition - 1redDrop


Microsoft AI Achieves 'Human-level' Accuracy in Speech Recognition - 1redDrop
1reddrop.com

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CNN: Scientists confirm genetics of schizophrenia


Scientists confirm genetics of schizophrenia
CNN

Using technology to illuminate chromosomes, UCLA scientists confirmed the core mechanics underpinning the genetics of this mental disorder. Read the full story


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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Stephen Smith shared a link: Every 25 Seconds: Human Rights Watch and the ACLU Document More Harms from Drug Prohibition | Cato @ Liberty



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Stephen Smith shared a link: Half of US adults are recorded in police facial recognition databases, study says | World news | The Guardian



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Summary of Hamilton, Jay, and Madison: The Federalist - From WikiSummary, free summaries of academic books and articles


The Problem of Factions

Factions--a catch-all term for what we might call "special interests," "political parties," and pressure groups like the Moral Majority--worried Madison. If a faction grew large enough, it could impose its will on an entire nation, resulting in a tyranny of the majority.

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Nerve implant retrains your brain to stop tinnitus | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329794.000-nerve-implant-retrains-your-brain-to-stop-tinnitus#.U9QlGPldU4k


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LEVITAN v. STATE REGISTRAR OF CONTRACTORS | FindLaw

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/az-court-of-appeals/1427161.html


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Flagstaff Rental Apartments

http://www.flaglips.com/


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Stop whining

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/10/18/watch_barack_obama_s_masterful_donald_trump_rigging_takedown.html

That's what Americans do. That's why America is already great. One way of weakening America and making it less great is if you start betraying those basic American traditions that have been bipartisan and have helped to hold together this democracy now for well over two centuries.
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Tax rates insensitive biz investment

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/10/18/a_conservative_group_just_made_a_great_argument_for_government_spending.html


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Monday, October 17, 2016

Monday, October 03, 2016

Humane Society rebuilds after volunteers quit - Sedona Red Rock News - Sedona News, Jobs, Things to Do

http://www.redrocknews.com/news/20-news-stories/42983-humane-society-rebuilds-after-volunteers-quit


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An Interview with Richard Tuschman, the Photographer Behind 'Hopper Meditations'

http://petapixel.com/2014/01/14/interview-richard-tuschman-photographer-behind-hopper-meditations/


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BBC News: Medicine Nobel for cell recycling work

I saw this on the BBC News App and thought you should see it:

Medicine Nobel for cell recycling work
The 2016 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Yoshinori Ohsumi for discoveries about the secrets of how cells can remain healthy by recycling waste.
Disclaimer: The BBC is not responsible for the content of this email, and anything written in this email does not necessarily reflect the BBC's views or opinions. Please note that neither the email address nor name of the sender have been verified.


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Friday, September 30, 2016

Canopy.co - A Curated Shop for Amazon

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the guardian: In the age of the algorithm, the human gatekeeper is back


In the age of the algorithm, the human gatekeeper is back
the guardian

The rise of algorithms has been relentless, but we need human input in our world of technological innovations Read the full story


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