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Science Friday on Twitter: "Meet the giant stick insect of your dreams (or nightmares) t.co/FdKQS2Z2KO t.co/QhDBVOZNVP"; Read more: Janine Wichmann, Caradee Yael Wright, Rebecca Garland, Pollution, Air Pollution, Environment, Africa, World News
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War, slavery, crime: In many countries of the world, people are threatened with violence. With our interactive globe, you can find out where the situation is particularly dangerous. ![]("https://drscdn.500px.org/photo/163127409/m%3D900/13943b957266158dfe4543e1db543988")
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John Fowler - Scientist of the Day
Sir John Fowler, an English civil engineer, was born July 15, 1817.
Scientists have long assumed that farming began among one group in the Mideast. But a new study suggests a more diverse origin story.
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This image shows one slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey. This image contains 48,741 galaxies, about 3 percent of the full survey dataset. Each dot in this picture indicates the position of a galaxy 6 billion years into the past. The image covers about 1/20th of the sky, a slice of the universe 6 billion light-years wide, 4.5 billion light-years high, and 500 million light-years thick. Color indicates distance from Earth, ranging from yellow on the near side of the slice to purple on the far side. Galaxies are highly clustered, revealing superclusters and voids whose presence is seeded in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Grey patches are small regions without survey data.
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Pics After ten years of work by hundreds of scientists, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III has produced the most complete map of our nearby universe covering over a million galaxies.…
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Decided to go home from work via Waterloo Bridge this morning and was treating to some very decent light despite the clear outlook. I had originally planned to visiti Millenium Bridge again but as i drove over Waterloo Bridge this view caught my eye. Im not keen on London during the day but at Dawn its just fine :-)
Thanks for viewing :-)
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How much water does your lawn really need? A University of Utah study re-evaluated lawn watering recommendations by measuring water used by lawns in Los Angeles. Scientists study how much water plants lose so that landscape managers can know how much water they need to put back in. Water evaporates in a straightforward physical process that depends primarily on the temperature and humidity of the air. But plants also lose water through transpiration, breathing out water vapor as part of their metabolism. Researchers attempt to determine a crop's evotranspiration rates by placing a large greenhouse-like chamber over an area of plants and measure how temperature and humidity changed within the chamber. But the presence of such a large chamber changes the plants' environment so much that the method is far from ideal.
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Dallas Morning News | Q&A: Michael Horowitz on banning killer, artificial intelligence robots Dallas Morning News In that when we imagine a lot of the sort of worst-case scenarios from artificial intelligence, beyond the ones from the movies, they tend to involve, say, robotic systems, like the Boston Dynamics system, substituting for a soldier on the ground and ... and more » |
Can a robot mend a lonely heart? CNET Now, a few doll makers and researchers would like to add artificial intelligence to the mix, creating erotic dolls that would do a lot more than just lie around. When that happens, it could isolate Nukeno and others like him even more -- or it could ... and more » |
Quartz | Did a robot just solve a prevailing mystery of evolution? Quartz Many see the decision to exit the European Union as driven by national anger against politicians in general, as much as against the EU specifically. Speaking outside her new home at Number 10 Downing Street, May—who earlier in her career had ... |
Trump demands an apology from Ginsburg, Loretta Lynch under fire, and China loses in Court CainTV o Former U.S. Army Reserve, Micah Johnson gunned down the officers in an ambush last Thursday after expressing anger over recent police killings of black people. o Johnson then was killed by an explosive-laden robot sent in by police. o Johnson, who ... |
Haaretz | Israeli Tech Could Offer Non-lethal Alternatives to Dallas' Killer Robot Haaretz But, it seems, the future is here. The use of a police robot loaded with explosives to kill Micah Xavier Johnson, who shot and killed five police officers during a protest march in Dallas last week, has brought an international ethics debate over the ... and more » |
War on the Rocks | This is Not the Killer Robot You're Looking For: Dallas Police Used a Precision-Guided Munition to Kill the Shooter War on the Rocks There, they would engage in a spinning whirlwind of predictive doom, calling for new regulations, stoking fears of hordes of government-controlled killer robots, and speculating on the future of civilization. But all the hyperventilating over this by ... |
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Gasp! Mastercard has gone and messed with one of the most iconic logos in corporate history and, shockingly, the new one isn't absolutely terrible. Far from it, in fact, as the old payments processing giant has done a fine job of modernizing its signature interlocking circles and integrating them into a modern, cohesive brand identity that keeps the logo looking great even at small sizes on mobile screens.
A less obvious difference is the dropping of the camel case, so from here on out it's going to be Mastercard or, as above, mastercard, and not MasterCard. Basically, the company's casting off many of its aging facets and looking to start afresh, which is why it's tied this identity redesign to the re-announcement of...
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Olly Moss, a graphic designer and illustrator and one of the artists for indie game Firewatch, has made a name for himself doing stylized and cherubic renderings of pop culture characters. He has them Giclée printed on high-quality 5 x 5-inch watercolor paper and sells them in limited time windows for a voracious community of fans. Now, Moss has gone ahead and released a set of six prints for the hugely popular Blizzard shooter Overwatch. They're available over at Moss' web store for 24 hours, with the clock ticking presumably from when Moss tweeted his store link at approximately 12PM ET on Thursday, July 14th.
According to his store, the "set is printed to fulfill the number of orders received within these 24 hours." So long as you...
