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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Tuesday, May 09, 2017
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Outdated infrastructure is making water too expensive for millions of families.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
From Brain Pickings on Flipboard
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone,…
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Read it on brainpickings.org
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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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Read it on oyster.com
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