10/8/16
News
- Leaflet calling for death of those who insult Islam 'handed out at London mosque'
- Vermont becomes the 2nd US state to recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day
- German push to ban combustion-engine cars by 2030 wins support
Science
- How an Australian University Student Beat NASA at Its Own Game - Through his Honours, Masters, and PhD, Paddy invented the Neumann Drive, a world record-breaking ion engine that can achieve more than 11,000 seconds of specific impulse beating NASA's best experimental efforts of 9,600
- CIA Can Predict Social Uprisings 3-5 Days in Advance thanks to powerful super computers dubbed Siren Servers by the father of Virtual Reality, Jaron Lanier. The agency has beefed-up its “anticipatory intelligence” through the use of deep learning and machine learning servers.
- AI making a difference in cancer care - “in 30 percent of patients, Watson found something new—so that’s 300-plus people where Watson identified a treatment that a well-meaning, hard-working group of physicians hadn’t found” -trained to read 25 million published medical papers in about a week
Showerthoughts
- Over the past year I've taken so many "before" pictures of my body while telling myself im going to start working out, I basically just have a slideshow of me getting fatter.
- I wonder how many times I've seen the same bird without realizing it.
- If batteries could be charged from the friction of scrolling, our phones would never die.
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