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‘I Promise to Love You' by Tracey Emin, New York

 
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No dream: Electric brain stimulation during sleep can boost memory  
For the first time, scientists report using transcranial alternating current stimulation, or tACS, to target a specific kind of brain activity during sleep and strengthen memory in healthy people.  
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Living in a Pokémon World The Future of Gaming  
By Shannon FlynnPokémon Go has officially become a worldwide phenomenon. Since the app launched on July 6, men, women, and children have been using their phones to search for Pokémon on streets, in parks, and at malls at all hours of the day and night. Each player hoping to “catch ‘em all” to ...

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Why Growth Will Fall  
Robert Gordon has written a magnificent book on the economic history of the United States over the last one and a half centuries. His study focuses on what he calls the “special century” from 1870 to 1970—in which living standards increased more rapidly than at any time before or after. The book is without peer in providing a statistical analysis of the uneven pace of growth and technological change, in describing the technologies that led to the remarkable progress during the special century, and in concluding with a provocative hypothesis that the future is unlikely to bring anything approaching the economic gains of the earlier period.  
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First hooded crane hatches @ SCBI  

The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) hatched its first hooded crane chick June 14. The chick was born as the result of artificial insemination. The chick is being raised by its parents and appears to be doing well. This is the first chick for Tempest (female) and Mr. Crane (male).

SCBI is now home to eight of the 26 birds in the Hooded Crane Species Survival Plan in North America. There are less than 8,000 hooded cranes in the wild and the species is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

SCBI has a successful crane breeding program. In addition to the birth of this hooded crane chick, 40 white-naped cranes have been born at SCBI. Twenty of those chicks were born as the result of artificial inseminations.

SCBI plays a leading role in the Smithsonian's global efforts to save wildlife species from extinction and train future generations of conservationists. SCBI spearheads research programs at its headquarters in Front Royal, Virginia, the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and at field research stations and training sites worldwide. SCBI scientists tackle some of today's most complex conservation challenges by applying and sharing what they learn about animal behavior and reproduction, ecology, genetics, migration and conservation sustainability.

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Sunrise on the Lake  

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Weekend Roundup: This Election Is About Defining America  
Most presidential elections in America have been contests over different policy solutions and approaches but rooted in a commonly agreed reality. This time around, as the back-to-back Republican and Democratic conventions have demonstrated, the dispute is over what constitutes reality itself. More than anything else, this election is about defining what America is.

Nominating conclaves used to be mainly about gritty political tradeoffs among factions in order to reach consensus on a candidate. These conventions were Hollywood-style orchestrations, replete with celebrity testimonials and musical performances, aimed at convincing the larger public of which reality to believe. Donald Trump and company argue we should be afraid, very afraid, because de-nationalized cosmopolitan elites have lost the will to protect the safety and economic well-being of Americans in a dangerous and ruthlessly competitive world. Climate change, which they recklessly deny, doesn't make their list of concerns.

Hillary Clinton and company argue that President Obama has set America on the right course, disengaging from a war footing and celebrating diversity as the nation's greatest strength. For them, the real danger is not Trump's Mexicans or Muslims but intolerant and divisive nativism. And for the Democrats, in the end it is the chastised establishment insiders, not disenchanted outsiders, who are the most competent to implement incremental change that will reduce inequality and curb the inordinate influence of the one percent.

The contest over defining who we are seems to have come about for two reasons. First, the consciousness of most Americans now dwells in media silos that are echo chambers of their own worldview and not objective platforms that establish a common grasp of the facts. Second, America, like the rest of the world, is in the midst of a Great Transformation in which the established institutions that sustained stability and progress for decades are ill suited to face the social upheaval of rapid technological change and globalization that is creating new classes of winners and losers. Caught in the purgatory of no longer and not yet, a clear path to salvation eludes the unsettled body politic.

The left-populist filmmaker Michael Moore lays out several reasons he is convinced that Trump will win the presidency. As Moore sees it, the Republican candidate will triumph in the key economically depressed Midwestern states, an outcome he calls America's "Rust Belt Brexit." Further, white men full of resentment at being left behind in an ever more diverse society will vote in Trump's favor. Hillary is just too unpopular among the general public, says Moore, while the reluctant stance of disappointed Bernie Sanders supporters will translate into a weak showing for her at the polls. Lastly, Moore expects the mischievous "Jesse Ventura effect" of voters who want to upset the applecart "to make Mommy and Daddy mad."

An even more bizarre overlay in this year's election is the apparent strongman sympathies between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, compounded by the "high confidence" judgment of American intelligence that the Russian government hacked into the Democratic National Committee emails.

Writing from Moscow, Anastasya Manuilova says that while it is "not implausible to say that such government-backed hackers do exist" in Russia, most of her colleagues at the Kommersant newspaper found the allegations "too far-fetched" or lacking enough proof to make such an elaborate scheme believable.

Russian chess champion and thorn in Putin's side, Garry Kasparov, is not surprised by alleged Russian meddling in American politics on behalf of "the extraordinarily disruptive and unpredictable" Trump. "Putin wants to stoke chaos and discord in the West," he writes.

Writing from Armenia, Armine Sahakyan says she is "convinced that not just Putin but also every other dictator in the former Soviet Union would love a Trump presidency. That way the United States would stop harping on their corruption, human rights abuses and other shortcomings -- and let them kill and imprison political opponents and subjugate neighbors with impunity."

Continuing terrorist attacks in Europe, including the brutal throat slitting of an elderly Catholic priest in France by terrorists who claimed allegiance to the so-called Islamic State, are leading to a more urgent reverberation of the divisive American debate. Writing from Paris, Frederic Sicard argues against the state of emergency declared by President Francois Hollande. "Faced with barbarity, can't our democracies choose not to seek safety only by sacrificing the very foundations of our society of law and freedom?" he asks. "By muting our deepest aspirations, are we not playing into the hands of terrorism?"

Writing from Germany, Roland Tichy reflects on the recent string of terror acts in his country. "The stark political divisions on display in the U.S.," he says, "now appear in Germany as well. Germany is becoming more colorful, thus becoming more American: It is also growing more violent in its hostilities, more unforgiving. This divide will increase along the ethnic and social fault lines."

As a pervasive sense of insecurity spreads across Europe, it is also about to be hit with a new financial crisis over Italy's insolvent banks. Despite EU rules against bailouts, Steve Hanke argues that "an Italian state rescue" is the most sensible way to recapitalize the troubled banks. Europe's tough and powerful commissioner for competition, Margrethe Vestager, lays out why and how markets must work for citizens.

Wikileaks is not only roiling the U.S. election through the release of internal DNC emails. It also helped publicize the so-called "Erodgan emails" in the wake of the recent coup attempt in Turkey. Zeynep Tufekci slams Wikileaks and the hackers behind the data dump for irresponsibly publicizing documents that shed no light on the regime but which instead included the identities, addresses and contact details of women who belong to the ruling Justice and Development Party. "Their addresses are out there for every stalker, ex-partner, disapproving relative or random crazy to peruse as they wish," she writes. As a result of our post, the uploaded files to which Wikileaks linked have been removed.

James Dorsey scores the anti-Gulenist purge underway in Turkey as strengthening militants and jihadists in Pakistan as the Turkish government demands the closure of the "PakTurkey" schools run by Gulenists there that teach science and moderation instead of extremism. In an interview, sociologist Joshua Hendrik explains what we need to know about Fethullah Gulen and the Hizmet ("service") organization over which he presides. WorldPost correspondent Sophia Jones reports from Istanbul on a major demonstration this week by opposition groups to show solidarity against the recent coup from across the political spectrum.

As the Olympics are about to get underway in Brazil, Yale's Joseph Lewnard contends that the fear of the Zika virus spreading as a result of large numbers of people gathering at the Games is highly exaggerated.

Criminologist John Carl takes a critical look at the prison system in America, which has the world's largest incarcerated population per capita, tracing its origins to the unforgiving Puritan culture from which it was born.

Eric Olander and Cobus van Staden examine China's growing military presence in Africa, ranging from greater engagement in United Nations peacekeeping missions to anti-piracy patrols to its nearly completed navy outpost in Djibouti.

This interactive world map reshapes countries and continents if we look at the factor of wealth instead of geography and population.

Our Singularity series this week looks at a new bio-robot shaped like a stingray and made of heart cells that can be controlled by light.

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r0B0t: The Week in Culture, “Perfectly Reasonable Number of Harmonicas” Edition  

“I can't quite explain why I harbored high hopes for Bad Moms, a comedy about three stressed-out Chicago mothers on an empowerment bender,” Slate's film critic Dana Stevens writes of the movie from the creators of The Hangover, the one that could have portrayed motherhood in a post-Bridesmaids, postBroad City, completely 2016 kind of way. Unfortunately, “the dad minds behind Bad Moms don't seem to understand, or be terribly curious about, the minds of mothers,” Stevens concludes. Elissa Strauss, looking at what the movie gets right and wrong about motherhood today, had a more charitable take: “Seeing a group of funny moms have dude-comedy-style fun in a competition-free atmosphere is a much-needed corrective to the frazzled, uptight moms that we usually see onscreen.”

The gals of Bad Moms were hardly the only moms on our minds this week. In fact, right now moms are having a bit of a moment. (Mom-ment?) Decidedly not-bad mom Hillary Clinton became the first woman (and first mom) to clinch a major party's presidential nomination (but what will we call Bill?) at the Democratic National Convention, and Michelle Obama mothered a nation in her radical Democratic National Convention speech. Dads go hand-in-hand with moms, and this week we got to know vice presidential Democratic nominee Tim Kaine and quickly decided that he is a total dad, of the bad-joke-making, multiple-harmonica-carrying, balloon-kicking variety. Chelsea Clinton, she of underappreciated '90s style and still-unwritten public persona, spoke at the DNC too, shouting out A Wrinkle in Time and sending its sales soaring in the process. The only thing that would have made the week better is if Hillary had quoted more Hamilton lines in her speech.

What else is going on besides moms and politics? In these dog days of summer, there's a MadTV reboot out, and it's a far cry from the show's original incarnation. The Absolutely Fabulous movie pokes fun at, or maybe exposes the hypocrisy of, society. We're pondering how after the Looking movie/finale, HBO may no longer be the go-to place for LGBTQ stories. Bojack Horseman tackled abortion, the new Star Trek movie didn't tackle disability, Mr. Robot loves its Kubrick references, and Taye Diggs may be unfollowing you on Twitter right now.

A few more highs and lows from the week in culture:

• What to watch on Netflix this weekend before it expires
• A tribute to cartoonist Richard Thompson
• How to tell when Donald Trump is joking
• Jeffrey Toobin's new book on the story of Patty Hearst
• Pokémon or cholesterol medication?: a quiz
• A gossip expert weighs in on this summer's spate of Taylor Swift headlines
• A grand unified theory of disgusting office kitchens
• Sarah Silverman and the value of celebrities at political events
• The story of Crusader Rabbit, TV's first cartoon
• Talking to the 91-year-old woman who designed a female president shirt in 1995

 
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What's long, hard and full of seamen? The USS Harvey Milk  

Bonus story: The saga of the five-inch 'toothbrush' gun

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The Democrats' Message of Calm  

The Atlantic's Molly Ball explores Hillary Clinton's image of composure in the midst of a troubled country.

 
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GMO Labeling Efforts Reveal Best and Worst of Democracy  

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State laws resulted from citizen action; national bill ignored citizens' wishes in favor of corporate interests

In 2014, Vermont passed the first legislation in the U.S. to require labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients. A year earlier, Connecticut and Maine also passed GMO labeling bills though these were dependent on several other states passing similar laws.

Best of democracy: lawmakers respond to people
These three bills were textbook examples of democracy in action. The states' citizens lobbied their legislatures to introduce the bills, public hearings were held, experts spoke for and against the bills, and lawmakers debated the measures. The bills ultimately passed because the lawmakers recognized that the People wanted them approved.

Vermont's bill passed overwhelmingly in both the state's House of Representatives and Senate, and Governor Pete Shumlin signed the bill shortly thereafter.

This is how democracy is supposed to work, right? Citizens see an issue of concern that needs to be addressed, and they contact their elected representatives who respond by passing a law. This is what happened in Vermont, Connecticut, and Maine.

As Tara Cook-Littman, who spearheaded Connecticut's labeling initiative, said: "We proved in Connecticut that we do have power and can make democracy work."

Worst of democracy: lawmakers pander to corporations
Contrast those initiatives with U.S. federal government action on GMO labeling in the past year. Heavy lobbying by large food and agriculture corporations and groups such as the Grocery Manufacturers Association led the U.S. House of Representatives to introduce the Orwellian-named "Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act." The bill, dubbed the "DARK Act" (Deny Americans the Right to Know), aimed to stop Vermont and other state GMO labeling laws and establish a meaningless system of voluntary GMO labeling. The DARK Act passed the House but a similar bill failed to pass the U.S. Senate this past March mainly because the people told their senators to vote against it.

Following the Senate defeat, and with Vermont's GMO labeling law set to take effect on July 1, Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Pat Roberts (R-KS) drafted a compromise of the DARK Act, making GMO disclosure mandatory and not voluntary as in the House bill. But there was no requirement for an on-package statement as the Vermont law mandated.

Stabenow's compromise essentially snatched defeat from the jaws of victory for labeling supporters because many major food companies were already putting GMO labels on their products sold nationwide to comply with Vermont's law.

The Roberts-Stabenow bill has been described as a "non-labeling GMO labeling bill" since, among its many flaws, it allows food companies to continue their stonewalling of GMO information by putting QR codes on products that can only be read by smartphones. Imagine a busy mother at a supermarket with several children in tow pulling out her smartphone to read QR codes on 20 or 30 food products. Or imagine the many mothers that don't even have smartphones trying to get GMO information. According to marketing communications expert Peter Quinn, the use of QR codes has virtually been abandoned because they have proven to be so ineffective and a "technology wild goose chase."

"Needs of the people have been ignored"
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said: "The Stabenow-Roberts GMO bill is confusing, misleading and unenforceable. It does nothing to make sure consumers know what they're eating."
In contrast to Vermont's GMO labeling bill--the Roberts-Stabenow bill had no hearings, no public input, no committee debate, and was rushed to be introduced--and passed in both the Senate and House. Behind the push were Big Food and Ag and their millions of dollars in lobbying.

So while the GMO labeling efforts in Vermont, Connecticut, and Maine demonstrated the best of democracy--working for the people as America's founders intended--the Roberts-Stabenow bill showed us the worst of democracy--with its pandering to the narrow interests of big business at the expense of the wishes of the people. And the bill eviscerates the successful democratic efforts in those states.

As Sanders said: "The needs of people have been ignored in this bill."
Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) agreed, saying the bill was "not what's in the interests of the American consumer, but what a few special interests want."

With their support for this bad piece of legislation and continued obfuscation, Big Food and Ag have assured themselves more years of consumer distrust, targeting by advocacy groups, and possible PR disasters. A few food companies, such as Campbell's and Dannon, have decided that transparency is the best policy with GMO labeling, but for many others this may be a tough lesson to learn.

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Good News on #TigerDay: Tiger Population Rebounds in Parsa, Nepal  

The tiger population of Nepal's Parsa Wildlife Reserve has increased markedly, according to a camera trap study released on International Tiger Day (today) by Panthera and the the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).

The Government of Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC), National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organization, and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) collaborated to carry out the 2016 population survey in Parsa as part of their ongoing partnership to protect and monitor tigers throughout the lowlands of Nepal, Panthera and ZL said in a news statement.

Nepal's Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Krishna Acharya said, “The tiger population in Parsa Wildlife Reserve has significantly increased since the last census. This is fantastic news for tigers and it demonstrates that Nepal's dedicated conservation efforts are delivering clear results. Nepal has committed to doubling its tiger population by 2022 and encouraging results like these show that we are on track to achieve that.”

Today, just 3,900 wild tigers remain in all of Asia, largely due to poaching for the illegal wildlife trade, the statement added. “Nepal is estimated to support 163-235 tigers, according to a 2013 population survey. The 2016 survey confirms that Parsa specifically has seen around a 45 percent annual increase in its tiger population.”

Beacon of Hope

Panthera Senior Tiger Program Director John Goodrich stated, “The impressive rise in Parsa's tiger numbers has been fuelled by the natural movement of animals from neighboring Chitwan as conditions in Parsa have improved over the past three years. This is a testament to how law enforcement and strong government leadership can change the game for tigers. At a time when poachers are waging an all-out war against wildlife, Nepal serves as a beacon of hope for the tiger.”

ZSL's Conservation Programmes Director Jonathan Baillie said, “Success for tiger conservation requires viable habitats, stringent protection, effective monitoring and community engagement and when those conditions are in place, tiger numbers will flourish as Parsa has demonstrated very clearly. Nepal's exemplary track record in conserving its iconic wildlife makes it a conservation leader in the South Asian region.”

Nepal's tremendous commitment to increasing coordinated law enforcement activities, harsh prosecution for poachers, and wildlife monitoring sets the nation apart from many other tiger range states, ZSL and Panthera continued in their statement. “Hundreds of dedicated personnel from the Nepal Army and DNPWC jointly patrol Parsa Wildlife Reserve and other protected areas, preventing poaching of Nepal's iconic wildlife, from the tiger to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Yet there is still much work to be done.”

Parsa's tiger rebound can also be attributed to the empowerment of the country's National Park and Wildlife Reserve Wardens, who maintain the authority to arrest, convict and sentence poachers. the two wildlife conservation organizations said. “This model is in stark contrast to many tiger range states where poachers often escape with little to no jail time or fines, even after sentencing.”

“The success of these stringent anti-poaching efforts is especially evident in neighboring Chitwan National Park. Acting as a source population for Parsa, tigers from Chitwan have moved into the adjoining landscape, accelerating population recovery, and ultimately creating a larger more viable population that extends across both protected areas.

“Since 2014, Panthera and ZSL have collaborated in Parsa Wildlife Reserve to monitor tigers and their prey using camera traps, and provide training for effective law enforcement and use of SMART, a computer-based platform that improves the effectiveness of wildlife patrols.

“Parsa is also a trial site for innovative conservation technologies, which have been effectively deployed to provide valuable information to park managers. This includes ZSL's seismic and magnetic sensors and Panthera's PoacherCam a remote camera that distinguishes people from wildlife and can transmit images to law enforcement, to stop poaching before it happens.

“ZSL in partnership with DNPWC has also recently equipped and supported the deployment of a state of the art Rapid Response Patrol team in Parsa, which further strengthens the capacity of the park management to prevent tiger poaching before it takes place.

“Over the next few years Panthera and ZSL plan to expand their efforts to support the Government of Nepal in its tiger conservation initiatives across three other protected areas that are home to tigers in the lowlands of Nepal.”

Learn more about Panthera's Tigers Forever Program

Learn more about ZSL's conservation efforts in Asia

This post was compiled from materials sent by Panthera and ZSL.

 
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CITES Conference Will Test Commitment of Governments to Save Tigers, EIA Says  

The 17th Conference of the Parties to CITES in Johannesburg at the end of September is the perfect opportunity for China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam to announce real action to end demand for tiger parts and products, Debbie Banks, leader of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) Tiger Campaign, said in a statement released in observance of Global Tiger Day (#TigerDay).

“Acting in unison in 2007, we had a major win for tigers when governments agreed that tiger ‘farming' should be stopped. But instead of complying with that decision, the governments of China, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam have allowed tiger farming and trade to spiral out of control,” Banks said. “How real is their commitment to save tigers?”

In readiness for the CITES conference, and in observance of Global Tiger Day today, July 29, EIE released the video embedded on this page.  “It is fantastic to see organisations from across the world unite in this call to action to end tiger farming,” Banks said of a joint statement signed by 45 non-governmental organizations to end commercial breeding of the world's largest cat.

Read the joint statement

 

 
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Kristin M. Swenson, Ph.D.: A Patriotic Act Of Faith For Environmental Protection And Climate Justice  
George Jones is still serving his country. Navy vet (Korea) and lifetime resident of Virginia, Mr. Jones bused to Richmond to take his message of American responsibility to the governor. That message: no new pipelines, no more fracking, enough already with our dependence on fossil fuels.

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Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?  

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El Reg towers was plunged into internal strife today, with the production desk struggling to keep the news production line humming as senior editors were forced to launch an investigation into the question that has split the editorial team down the middle: is it acceptable to add the milk to the tea pot?…

 
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