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It started out as a Kickstarter campaign, but the newly revived Mystery Science Theater 3000 is now headed to Netflix.
The series will debut soon in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and features a mix of old faces from the original series along with some newcomers.
Creator Joel Hodgson will serve as a writer and executive producer, with Mary Jo Pehl (Pearl Forrester), Bill Corbett (Crow T. Robot/Brain Guy) and Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo/Professor Bobo) all reprising earlier roles. Though it sounds like a new cast will be front and center. Read more...
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Telegraph.co.uk | Banks switch from phone menus to robot advice Telegraph.co.uk Barclays' former chief executive, Antony Jenkins, believes half of all jobs in banking could be chopped in the next decade as automation takes hold, underlining the scale of potential transformation. Enabling Britons to check their balances, transfer ... |
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It's the first time for a solar-powered plane to circumnavigate the globe. Now it's en route to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — and you can watch the journey in a live video from the cockpit.
BBC2's revival feeds the appetite for nostalgia TV and our growing love of tech
BBC2 viewers keen on a bit of wanton four-wheel destruction at the hands of a bunch of whooping middle-aged men need no longer mourn the passing of Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear.
The return of Robot Wars, back on Sunday night, is perfectly timed to fill the void of the Top Gear slot, not least after the travails of the motoring show's short-lived Chris Evans incarnation.
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This was a pretty good week for all but VHS enthusiasts. NASA tested a new lightweight rocket material. The Kepler space telescope found a couple of potentially habitable exoplanets. Researchers built a robot out of a sea slug. And scientists at TU D... Zed.Cat posted a photo:
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The Earth is adrift in a sea of mystery particles, which we would like to see. The LUX experiment, our most sensitive eye, has just reported back. What have we learned?
We know that billions of unseen particles pass through us every moment. We are bathed in neutrinos from the Sun, and in low-energy photons left over from the Big Bang. Both types of particle are vital ingredients in our understanding of physics and the universe, and both have been measured eventually by highly specialised detectors.
But there's more. Or at least we think there is. The way galaxies move, and the way light bends as it travels to us across space from far distant clusters, indicate that there is more material there than we can see. We call it “dark matter”, though as Lisa Randall says in her recent book, it might better be called “transparent matter”, since apart from the slight bending caused by gravity, light passes right through it.
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In important ways, the significance of a null result depends upon a robust theoretical framework
We've probed previously unexplored regions of parameter space with the aim of making the first definitive discovery of dark matter. Though a positive signal would have been welcome, nature was not so kind! Nonetheless, a null result is significant as it changes the landscape of the field by constraining models for what dark matter could be beyond anything that existed previously
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NASA's Kepler Mission found stars that resemble our sun about a few million years after its birth. The Kepler data showed many examples of what are called “superflares” enormous explosions so rare today that we only experience them once every 100 years or so. Yet the Kepler data also show these youngsters producing as many as ten superflares a day.
“Early Earth received only about 70 percent of the energy from the sun than it does today,” said Vladimir Airapetian, a solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. “That means Earth should have been an icy ball. Instead, geological evidence says it was a warm globe with liquid water. We call this the Faint Young Sun Paradox. Our research shows that solar storms could have been central to warming Earth.”
Our sun's adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it. Some 4 billion years ago, the sun shone with only about three-quarters the brightness we see today, but its surface roiled with giant eruptions spewing enormous amounts of solar material and radiation out into space. These powerful solar explosions may have provided the crucial energy needed to warm Earth, despite the sun's faintness.The eruptions also may have furnished the energy needed to turn simple molecules into the complex molecules such as RNA and DNA that were necessary for life.
Understanding what conditions were necessary for life on our planet helps us both trace the origins of life on Earth and guide the search for life on other planets. Until now, however, fully mapping Earth's evolution has been hindered by the simple fact that the young sun wasn't luminous enough to warm Earth.
Scientists are able to piece together the history of the sun by searching for similar stars in our galaxy. By placing these sun-like stars in order according to their age, the stars appear as a functional timeline of how our own sun evolved. It is from this kind of data that scientists know the sun was fainter 4 billion years ago. Such studies also show that young stars frequently produce powerful flares giant bursts of light and radiation — similar to the flares we see on our own sun today. Such flares are often accompanied by huge clouds of solar material, called coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, which erupt out into space.
While our sun still produces flares and CMEs, they are not so frequent or intense. What's more, Earth today has a strong magnetic field that helps keep the bulk of the energy from such space weather from reaching Earth. Space weather can, however, significantly disturb a magnetic bubble around our planet, the magnetosphere, a phenomenon referred to as geomagnetic storms that can affect radio communications and our satellites in space. It also creates auroras most often in a narrow region near the poles where Earth's magnetic fields bow down to touch the planet.
Our young Earth, however, had a weaker magnetic field, with a much wider footprint near the poles. “Our calculations show that you would have regularly seen auroras all the way down in South Carolina,” says Airapetian, lead author of the paper. “And as the particles from the space weather traveled down the magnetic field lines, they would have slammed into abundant nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere. Changing the atmosphere's chemistry turns out to have made all the difference for life on Earth.”
The atmosphere of early Earth was also different than it is now: Molecular nitrogen that is, two nitrogen atoms bound together into a molecule made up 90 percent of the atmosphere, compared to only 78 percent today. As energetic particles slammed into these nitrogen molecules, the impact broke them up into individual nitrogen atoms. They, in turn, collided with carbon dioxide, separating those molecules into carbon monoxide and oxygen.
The free-floating nitrogen and oxygen combined into nitrous oxide, which is a powerful greenhouse gas. When it comes to warming the atmosphere, nitrous oxide is some 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. The teams' calculations show that if the early atmosphere housed less than one percent as much nitrous oxide as it did carbon dioxide, it would warm the planet enough for liquid water to exist.
This newly discovered constant influx of solar particles to early Earth may have done more than just warm the atmosphere, it may also have provided the energy needed to make complex chemicals. In a planet scattered evenly with simple molecules, it takes a huge amount of incoming energy to create the complex molecules such as RNA and DNA that eventually seeded life.
While enough energy appears to be hugely important for a growing planet, too much would also be an issue — a constant chain of solar eruptions producing showers of particle radiation can be quite detrimental. Such an onslaught of magnetic clouds can rip off a planet's atmosphere if the magnetosphere is too weak. Understanding these kinds of balances help scientists determine what kinds of stars and what kinds of planets could be hospitable for life.
“We want to gather all this information together, how close a planet is to the star, how energetic the star is, how strong the planet's magnetosphere is in order to help search for habitable planets around stars near our own and throughout the galaxy,” said William Danchi, principal investigator of the project at Goddard and a co-author on the paper. “This work includes scientists from many fields — those who study the sun, the stars, the planets, chemistry and biology. Working together we can create a robust description of what the early days of our home planet looked like and where life might exist elsewhere.”
This research was published in Nature Geoscience on May 23, 2016, by a team of scientists from NASA.
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The sun emitted three mid-level solar flares on July 22-23, 2016, the strongest peaking at 1:16 am EDT on July 23. The sun is currently in a period of low activity, moving toward what's called solar minimum when there are few to no solar eruptions so these flares were the first large ones observed since April. They are categorized as mid-strength flares, substantially less intense than the most powerful solar flares.
These flares were classified as M-level flares. M-class flares are the category just below the most intense flares, X-class flares. The number provides more information about its strength. An M2 is twice as intense as an M1, an M3 is three times as intense, etc.
Of these three flares: The first was an M5.0, which peaked at 10:11 pm EDT on July 22, 2016. The second -- the strongest -- was an M7.6, which peaked at 1:16 am EDT on July 23. The final was an M5.5, which peaked 15 minutes later at 1:31 am EDT.
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They were rivals who shaped American architecture, but to call them an ‘odd couple' overstates their relationship
Frank Lloyd Wright was a true original creator of buildings both flawed and brilliant, a devout believer in his own genius, nature-loving, midwestern, New-York-hating who sought to realise an American pioneer spirit, one that broke with the old world of classical columns and pediments. He would speak with quasi-biblical language about the truths he claimed for his life and architecture. He was, arguably, America's greatest architect.
Philip Johnson was perhaps most at home at his table in the Four Seasons restaurant off Park Avenue, a space of sophistication and great cost created to his designs. He was urbane, Europhile, plagiaristic, fascinated with the superficial, a self-confessed “whore”, sociable, political, an operator both Machiavellian and Mephistophelean. He was a mostly terrible architect, who nonetheless managed to create or assist in some of the most influential buildings of 20th-century America. The critic Paul Goldberger called him “the greatest architectural presence of our time”, which was roughly right a presence rather than an actual architect.
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The burning pier is a rite of the British seaside, occasional, unscheduled but persistent, whereby bored teenage arsonists or seekers-after-insurance-claims or pure accidents spark conflagrations of teetering Victorian structures which, despite being made of iron and placed over the sea, burn merrily. It turns out that the wooden shack-like buildings on top, plus timber decking, are enough to fuel the blaze; conventionally equipped fire brigades can't get to the end to put it out. So residents and consumers of news are treated to the pagan spectacle of fire over water on a grand scale.
Sometimes they burn more than once for example Hastings Pier in 1917 and 2010, and the West Pier in Brighton in March and May 2003. Then follows the less exciting sight of attempts at resurrection. The 19th-century business models that got them built no longer work. The damaged historic metalwork can be astoundingly expensive to restore. The ownership might be opaque. What's left rots. It becomes a handy symbol of bygone halcyon days.
The pier enables you, undistracted by clutter, to inhale the experience the view, the light, the air
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There's more to Eggleston's everyday, extraordinary, infinitely various photographs of American life in the 60s and 70s than he would have us believe, as this captivating show reveals
There is a magnificent photograph by William Eggleston of a teenage boy framed in a shaft of evening sunlight. He appears in profile, leaning forward about an arm's length from the camera. The sun gilds his strong forearm, which pushes forward like a runner, and caresses his handsome face, turning his quiff into a red-golden blaze. On the wall behind him the whole pose is confirmed in shadow the golden boy as heroic silhouette.
Except that this is not a pose. It takes a moment or two to notice that the boy is not standing but moving and that his forearm is resting at right angles on a supermarket trolley. He is returning a queue of trolleys, in fact, to the shop. An ordinary scene is made extraordinary by perfectly natural light, and the worker is singled out as much by that light as by the camera. The image is almost romantic, but just held back.
The maid making the bed is not just anyone but the woman who looked after Eggleston when he was growing up
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The Royal Academy of Arts is to launch a groundbreaking experiment designed to give visitors the unsettling opportunity to see themselves as they really are.
The London gallery is to install cutting-edge technology in September as part of an interactive experiment using the Veronica Chorographic Scanner, which can capture every pore and pimple as well as more positive attributes in a 3D “sculpture”.
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After the convention, many Republicans are worried that Trumpism does not respect the prudent, cautious, free-market conservatism they value. Trump is turning his back on decades of Republican Party doctrine and, for millennials especially, making the Republican Party a "toxic brand."![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2F3vQPwQnoZuM&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
A marvellously melancholic motion-capture performance by Mark Rylance and vibrant support from rising star Ruby Barnhill provide the beating heart of this extremely likable adaptation of Roald Dahl's family favourite, which also owes a debt to the illustrations of Quentin Blake. Brimful of the anarchic magic so sorely missing from Spielberg's ill-fated Peter Pan project, Hook, The BFG sees the director rediscovering his inner child in winning fashion. Like the eponymous figure, the result may be a little lumbering at times, but it is also ultimately irresistible.
We open in a Mary Poppins-style version of London where past and present seem to intermingle. From vistas of the Thames and the Houses of Parliament we move through Dickensian cobbled streets to the orphanage where young Sophie (Barnhill) peers like a giant into the tiny rooms of a doll's house. It's the witching hour, and Spielbergian shafts of dusty moonlight stream through the room (the “silver blade” of Dahl's source) whence Sophie herself will soon be taken, to Giant Country, where beasts with names like Bloodbottler and Fleshlumpeater are hungry for “human beans”.
At the palace, the BFG introduces the Queen to 'whizzpopping', the bottom-burping 'sign of true happiness'
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Elon Musk Makes Self-Driving Machines -- Yet Fears A Possible Robot Takeover Daily Caller Musk's plan to produce what amounts to a self-perpetuating technology appears to run counter to his campaign against artificial intelligence. He used his wealth and cache as a leading figure in technological innovations, for instance, to fund a ... and more » |
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Image shot handheld whilst walking back to the van from Westminster Bridge yesterday morning. Really starting to warm to cityscape photography and there seems like endless possibilities in the city, at either end of the day. At the moments its preferable to a two hour drive to the east coast for sunrise (but only Just(!))
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I ran across a fascinating piece by Leo Polovets of Susa Ventures this week, provocatively titled: “Why Startup Technical Diligence Is A Waste Of Time.” You should go read it, but its central thesis is simple: “in today's world of SaaS tools, APIs, and cloud infrastructure … technical resources are rarely the cause of success or the reason for failure.” Is… Read More From Scandinavian crime to Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausagaard, it's boom time for foreign fiction in the UK. But the right translation is crucial, says Rachel Cooke, while, below, some of the best translators tell us their secrets
Last year, I decided to treat myself to a new copy of Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, a novel I have loved ever since I first read it as a teenager, and whose dreamy opening line in its original translation from the French by Irene Ash “A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sadness” I know by heart. But which one to get? In the end, I decided to go for something entirely new and ritzy, which is how I came to buy the Penguin Modern Classics edition, translated by Heather Lloyd.
Some days later, in bed, I began reading it. The shock was tremendous, disorienting. “This strange new feeling of mine, obsessing me by its sweet languor, is such that I am reluctant to dignify it with the fine, solemn name of ‘sadness',” went the first sentence, which sounded to my ears a little as though a robot had written it. For a while I pressed on, telling myself it was stupid to cling to only one version, as if it were a sacred thing, and that perhaps I would soon fall in love with this no doubt very clever and more accurate new translation. Pretty soon, though, I gave up. However syntactically correct it might be, the prose had for me lost all of its magic. It was as if I'd gone out to buy a silk party dress and come home with a set of nylon overalls.
Continue reading...The family-friendly machine massacre returns to the small screen, while the story of Saddam Hussein's vanity picture starring Oliver Reed can finally be told
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The rebooted Wars roars on to BBC2 as Sir Killalot and co prowl the fibreglass-walled arena once more. Other than new host Dara O Briain, little has changed. Technical tubthumping is often followed by a team accidentally driving their expensively kitted bot into a hole, while wry smiles result from the grizzled robo-voiceover growling things like “Hemel Hempstead”. Indeed, little has been done to remove the show from the rut that saw the original series cancelled. Mark Gibbings-Jones
These memorable months of terrible massacres, Brexit and political upheaval will mark our culture as indelibly as the summer of love in 1967
Now is the summer of our discontent. The summer of rained-off barbecues, racist trams, death. Of padding into meetings in sodden sandals, and throwing down our notebook with a massive: “Oh what does it matter anyway, everything's gone to cock.” If 1967 was the summer of love, then 2016 will go down as the summer of shit.
In 40 years' time, your grandchildren will ask where you were when Britain prolapsed. I say ask, I mean enquire online, prodding the question into the “Contact me” page on your Pokémon profile with the robot they use for a hand. There will be commemorative plates with a poignant message in Latin and that photo of Nigel Farage drinking a big pint. They will become highly collectable, one appearing on the New Antiques Roadshow to gasps of fond recognition. Ah, the old people will croak at home, but nobody will hear them over the outside roar of burning books and their tent flaps banging. In what was once London, there will be a museum where you can actually have a go on the real Boris zip wire, landing in a little hell-pit at the end, for the photo-opp. The Brexit bus will do tours of the former United Kingdom, stopping at the original Poundland in Burton-upon-Trent, the once thriving company bought out last week at a bargain price to the delight of metaphor hunters everywhere. If you book a ride in advance you get a bag of broken biscuits for the journey. Sharing is discouraged.
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Big Shiny Robot! | 3 Comics That Are Sticking It To The Man Big Shiny Robot! Comic books have a long history of taking shots at the establishment. Superhero comics are pretty much predicated on the little guy standing up to the big corrupt guy; but if we're being honest, they're pretty tame in their dissent. They are published ... and more » |
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In this week I went to Greenwich to take pictures of the view at sunset. It was amazing. It was the most beautiful sunset I had ever seen in London. However, I arrived a tad too late and about 5 mins after I got there, they announced the Park is now closed. Bummer. So today I went back, fingers firmly crossed for a nice sunset. And I was well rewarded... Pure magic! xxx
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