The puzzling appearance of an ice cloud seemingly out of thin air has prompted NASA scientists to suggest that a different process than previously thought -- possibly similar to one seen over Earth's poles -- could be forming clouds on Saturn's moon Titan.
Located in Titan's stratosphere, the cloud is made of a compound of carbon and nitrogen known as dicyanoacetylene (C4N2), an ingredient in the chemical cocktail that colors the giant moon's hazy, brownish-orange atmosphere.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA's mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA's accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency's mission.
Our Ocean Conference 2016 Washington, DC, U.S. Department of State September 15-16, 2016
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For more than 50 years, Star Trek has inspired us to pursue knowledge, create new technologies, and boldly go toward a better future for humanity. To celebrate Star Trek's recent 50th anniversary, Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics asked several current, former, and visiting Perimeter researchers to tell us why the series is so important to them.
The epic series has also inspired numerous generations of physicists to probe the limits of our current understanding of the universe.
The Daily Galaxy via Perimeter Institute
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%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDailyGalaxyNewsFromPlanetEarthBeyond/~3/04lYw99KszA/alarms-being-raised-over-darpa-funded-neural-dust-wireless-sensors-implanted-in-the-body-hacking-cou.html Alarms Raised Over DARPA-Funded 'Neural Dust' --Wireless Sensors Implanted in the Body: "Hacking Could Unleash Global Havoc"
Alarms are being raised over the recent advancements in a new DARPA-funded technology known as “electroceuticals,” with the possibility that dark forces could be unleashed in a world where millions have hundreds of tiny neural dust sensors gathering and transmitting the most personal of information into external computer networks. The fears being that non-state actors, hostile nations, and could hack into the most secure and sensitive databases, gaining access to in-body telemetry from a head of state or sending nefarious commands directly into their brain unleashing havoc.
Engineers at UC Berkeley have cracked the millimetre barrier producing the first dust-sized wireless sensor small enough to implant into the body and be parked next to a muscle, nerve or organ. These motes are sprinkled thoughout the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time. The neural dust sensor is born from a DARPA funded weapons program. (DARPA is also the organization responsible for creating the Internet).
We already have zero ability to keep foreign actors, hostile groups, not to mention cybercriminals, from hacking into the most secure and sensitive databases. If they gained access to in-body telemetry from a head of state or sent nefarious commands directly into their brain, what havoc they could wreak.
Wireless, batteryless implantable sensors could improve brain control of prosthetics, avoiding wires that go through the skull. (UC Berkeley video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally) Because these batteryless sensors could also be used to stimulate nerves and muscles, the technology also opens the door to “electroceuticals” to treat disorders such as epilepsy or to stimulate the immune system or tamp down inflammation.
The so-called neural dust, which the team implanted in the muscles and peripheral nerves of rats, is unique in that ultrasound is used both to power and read out the measurements. Ultrasound technology is already well-developed for hospital use, and ultrasound vibrations can penetrate nearly anywhere in the body, unlike radio waves, the researchers say.
“I think the long-term prospects for neural dust are not only within nerves and the brain, but much broader,“ said Michel Maharbiz, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and one of the study's two main authors. “Having access to in-body telemetry has never been possible because there has been no way to put something supertiny superdeep. But now I can take a speck of nothing and park it next to a nerve or organ, your GI tract or a muscle, and read out the data.“
The sensor, 3 millimeters long and 1×1 millimeters in cross section, attached to a nerve fiber in a rat. Once implanted, the batteryless sensor is powered and the data read out by ultrasound. (Ryan Neely photo)
Maharbiz, neuroscientist Jose Carmena, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and their colleagues will report their findings in the August 3 issue of the journal Neuron.
The sensors, which the researchers have already shrunk to a 1 millimeter cube about the size of a large grain of sand contain a piezoelectric crystal that converts ultrasound vibrations from outside the body into electricity to power a tiny, on-board transistor that is in contact with a nerve or muscle fiber. A voltage spike in the fiber alters the circuit and the vibration of the crystal, which changes the echo detected by the ultrasound receiver, typically the same device that generates the vibrations. The slight change, called backscatter, allows them to determine the voltage.
In their experiment, the UC Berkeley team powered up the passive sensors every 100 microseconds with six 540-nanosecond ultrasound pulses, which gave them a continual, real-time readout. They coated the first-generation motes 3 millimeters long, 1 millimeter high and 4/5 millimeter thick with surgical-grade epoxy, but they are currently building motes from biocompatible thin films which would potentially last in the body without degradation for a decade or more.
While the experiments so far have involved the peripheral nervous system and muscles, the neural dust motes could work equally well in the central nervous system and brain to control prosthetics, the researchers say. Today's implantable electrodes degrade within 1 to 2 years, and all connect to wires that pass through holes in the skull. Wireless sensors dozens to a hundred could be sealed in, avoiding infection and unwanted movement of the electrodes.
“The original goal of the neural dust project was to imagine the next generation of brain-machine interfaces, and to make it a viable clinical technology,” said neuroscience graduate student Ryan Neely. “If a paraplegic wants to control a computer or a robotic arm, you would just implant this electrode in the brain and it would last essentially a lifetime.”
In a paper published online in 2013, the researchers estimated that they could shrink the sensors down to a cube 50 microns on a side about 2 thousandths of an inch, or half the width of a human hair. At that size, the motes could nestle up to just a few nerve axons and continually record their electrical activity.
“The beauty is that now, the sensors are small enough to have a good application in the peripheral nervous system, for bladder control or appetite suppression, for example,“ Carmena said. “The technology is not really there yet to get to the 50-micron target size, which we would need for the brain and central nervous system. Once it's clinically proven, however, neural dust will just replace wire electrodes. This time, once you close up the brain, you're done.“
The team is working now to miniaturize the device further, find more biocompatible materials and improve the surface transceiver that sends and receives the ultrasounds, ideally using beam-steering technology to focus the sounds waves on individual motes. They are now building little backpacks for rats to hold the ultrasound transceiver that will record data from implanted motes.
They're also working to expand the motes' ability to detect non-electrical signals, such as oxygen or hormone levels.
“The vision is to implant these neural dust motes anywhere in the body, and have a patch over the implanted site send ultrasonic waves to wake up and receive necessary information from the motes for the desired therapy you want,” said Dongjin Seo, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer sciences. “Eventually you would use multiple implants and one patch that would ping each implant individually, or all simultaneously.”
Maharbiz and Carmena conceived of the idea of neural dust about five years ago, but attempts to power an implantable device and read out the data using radio waves were disappointing. Radio attenuates very quickly with distance in tissue, so communicating with devices deep in the body would be difficult without using potentially damaging high-intensity radiation.
A sensor implanted on a peripheral nerve is powered and interrogated by an ultrasound transducer. The backscatter signal carries information about the voltage across the two electrodes. The 'dust' mote was pinged every 100 microseconds with six 540-nanosecond ultrasound pulses.
A sensor implanted on a peripheral nerve is powered and interrogated by an ultrasound transducer. The backscatter signal carries information about the voltage across the sensor's two electrodes. The ‘dust' mote was pinged every 100 microseconds with six 540-nanosecond ultrasound pulses.
Marharbiz hit on the idea of ultrasound, and in 2013 published a paper with Carmena, Seo and their colleagues describing how such a system might work. “Our first study demonstrated that the fundamental physics of ultrasound allowed for very, very small implants that could record and communicate neural data,” said Maharbiz. He and his students have now created that system.
“Ultrasound is much more efficient when you are targeting devices that are on the millimeter scale or smaller and that are embedded deep in the body,” Seo said. “You can get a lot of power into it and a lot more efficient transfer of energy and communication when using ultrasound as opposed to electromagnetic waves, which has been the go-to method for wirelessly transmitting power to miniature implants”
“Now that you have a reliable, minimally invasive neural pickup in your body, the technology could become the driver for a whole gamut of applications, things that today don't even exist,“ Carmena said.
Other co-authors of the Neuron paper are graduate student Konlin Shen, undergraduate Utkarsh Singhal and UC Berkeley professors Elad Alon and Jan Rabaey. The work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense.
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Teleportation has largely been the realm of science fiction and Star Trek plots. Now, Chinese and Canadian scientists say they have successfully carried out a form of teleportation at the quantum level across an entire city. The two teams working independently have teleported near-identical versions of tiny particles called photons through cables across Calgary in Canada and Hefei in Anhui province.
Quantum teleportation is the ability to transfer information such as the properties or the quantum state of an atom — its energy, spin, motion, magnetic field and other physical properties — to another location without traveling in the space between. While it was first demonstrated in 1997, today's studies are the first to show the process is technologically possible via a mainstream communications network.
Ben Buchler, Associate Professor with the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at the Australian National University, said the technical achievement of completing the experiments in a "non-ideal environment" was "pretty profound". "People have known how to do this experiment since the early 2000s, but until these papers it hasn't been performed in fibre communication networks, in situ, in cities," said Buchler, who was not involved in the research. "It's seriously difficult to do what they have done."
A cornerstone of quantum teleportation is quantum entanglement, where two particles are intimately linked to each other in such a way that a change in one will affect the other.
Researchers have long known that a photon particle can be split in two and yet the pair are still “entangled”, which means that any change in the state of one immediately affects the other, although how this happens is still unknown.
The two papers demonstrate that the possibility of quantum [internet] networks that span a city are a realistic proposition, which is an exciting vision for the future
The forms of teleported photons were destroyed in one laboratory and recreated in another more than 8km apart in the two cities through optical fibre. Similar experiments have been carried out before, but only within the same laboratory.
the research was a step forward in the development of a “quantum internet”, a futuristic particle-based information system that could be much more secure than existing forms of digital data. Quantum networks make eavesdropping almost impossible because the particles used cannot be observed without being altered.
But in his commentary on the research in the scientific journal Nature Photonics, French physicist Frederic Grosshans said the two experiments clearly showed that teleportation across metropolitan distances was technologically feasible.
“The two papers demonstrate that the possibility of quantum [internet] networks that span a city are a realistic proposition, which is an exciting vision for the future,” Grosshans said. Professor Zhang Qiang, one of the leaders of the Chinese team, said: “Maybe in the distant future, materials can be teleported through a fibre or even open space, too.”
The research was carried out by scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China and the University of Calgary and their papers were published in the journal on Monday.
This, in theory, means it could be possible to transmit information by manipulating entangled photons, but various factors, including fluctuating temperatures, can interfere with the process over longer distances outside the laboratory. The researchers used sophisticated equipment to counter these and other problems, allowing the Chinese team, led by Professor Pan Jianwei and Professor Zhang, to achieve “full” quantum teleportation of photons over a optical fibre network 12.5km apart.
The Chinese and Canadian teams used different approaches to carry out their experiments. The Chinese team demonstrated a fuller version of the quantum network with higher reliability, but the Canadian approach was more efficient, according to Grosshans.
Mars is a dusty place and you might not think it is surprising that we regularly see dust storms on its surface. But the phenomenon has puzzled scientists since the 1980s when experiments showed that typical wind speeds recorded on Mars are not strong enough to lift the dust.
Many theories have been suggested to explain the dust storms but few experiments have investigated them.
This experiment was designed by four students from the university of Duisberg-Essen in Germany as part of their thesis project. It will fly on ESA's parabolic flight campaign that offers repeated 20 seconds of weightlessness.
Inside the canister is a small wind channel filled with carbon dioxide at low pressure to represent the atmosphere found on Mars. The canister spins like a centrifuge and recreates different levels of gravity the faster it spins the heavier the contents will be. This experiment cannot be done on the ground because the team wants to recreate Mars gravity around two thirds of gravity on Earth.
This experiment is part of ESA's “Fly your thesis!” educational programme that offers university students a way to run experiments in weightlessness. Follow the teams' progress on their own website.
Credit: ESA/Anemoi4
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NASA's Cassini mission stared at Saturn for nearly 44 hours in April 2016, capturing four Saturn days in a time-lapse video and the footage is nothing short of stunning. From April 25 to April 26, 2016 the spacecraft stayed in the planet's atmosphere. Cassini will begin a series of dives between the planet and its rings in April 2017, building toward a dramatic end of mission -- a final plunge into the planet, six months later.
A Saturn day is equivalent to 10.5 hours. In the video, Saturn and its ring are observed moving in a steady pattern while oval-shaped storms were seen moving along with the planet's orbit. The hexagon on the planet's North Pole is also visible in the video --a product of six jet streams located in the northern region. Fun fact, the sides of the hexagon alone are already bigger than the Earth.
Since NASA's Cassini spacecraft arrived at Saturn, the planet's appearance has changed greatly. This view above shows Saturn's northern hemisphere in 2016, as that part of the planet nears its northern hemisphere summer solstice in May 2017.
After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage. The conclusion of the historic scientific odyssey is planned for September 2017, but not before the spacecraft completes a daring two-part endgame.
Beginning on November 30, Cassini's orbit will send the spacecraft just past the outer edge of the main rings. These orbits, a series of 20, are called the F-ring orbits. During these weekly orbits, Cassini will approach to within 4,850 miles (7,800 kilometers) of the center of the narrow F ring, with its peculiar kinked and braided structure.
"During the F-ring orbits we expect to see the rings, along with the small moons and other structures embedded in them, as never before," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "The last time we got this close to the rings was during arrival at Saturn in 2004, and we saw only their backlit side. Now we have dozens of opportunities to examine their structure at extremely high resolution on both sides."
Cassini's final phase -- called the Grand Finale -- begins in earnest in April 2017. A close flyby of Saturn's giant moon Titan will reshape the spacecraft's orbit so that it passes through the gap between Saturn and the rings an unexplored space only about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) wide. The spacecraft is expected to make 22 plunges through this gap, beginning with its first dive on April 27.
During the Grand Finale, Cassini will make the closest-ever observations of Saturn, mapping the planet's magnetic and gravity fields with exquisite precision and returning ultra-close views of the atmosphere.
Scientists also hope to gain new insights into Saturn's interior structure, the precise length of a Saturn day, and the total mass of the rings -- which may finally help settle the question of their age. The spacecraft will also directly analyze dust-sized particles in the main rings and sample the outer reaches of Saturn's atmosphere -- both first-time measurements for the mission.
"It's like getting a whole new mission," said Spilker. "The scientific value of the F ring and Grand Finale orbits is so compelling that you could imagine a whole mission to Saturn designed around what we're about to do."
Since the beginning of 2016, mission engineers have been tweaking Cassini's orbital path around Saturn to position the spacecraft for the mission's final phase. They have sent the spacecraft on a series of flybys past Titan that are progressively raising the tilt of Cassini's orbit with respect to Saturn's equator and rings. This particular orientation enables the spacecraft to leap over the rings with a single (and final) Titan flyby in April, to begin the Grand Finale.
"We've used Titan's gravity throughout the mission to sling Cassini around the Saturn system," said Earl Maize, Cassini project manager at JPL. "Now Titan is coming through for us once again, providing a way for Cassini to get into these completely unexplored regions so close to the planet."
The Grand Finale will come to a dramatic end on Sept. 15, 2017, as Cassini dives into Saturn's atmosphere, returning data about the planet's chemical composition until its signal is lost. Friction with the atmosphere will cause the spacecraft to burn up like a meteor soon afterward.
To celebrate the beginning of the final year and the adventure ahead, the Cassini team is releasing a new movie of the rotating planet, along with a color mosaic, both taken from high above Saturn's northern hemisphere. The movie covers 44 hours, or just over four Saturn rotations.
The Cassini spacecraft has logged impressive numbers in the 12 years since it arrived at Saturn on July 1, 2004. This infographic offers a snapshot of just a few of the mission's big numbers on Sept. 15, 2016, as it heads into a final year of science at Saturn.
"This is the sort of view Cassini will have as the spacecraft repeatedly climbs high above Saturn's northern latitudes before plunging past the outer -- and later the inner -- edges of the rings," said Spilker.
And so, although the mission's end is approaching -- with a "Cassini Final Plunge" clock already counting down in JPL mission control -- an extremely important phase of the mission is still to come.
"We may be counting down, but no one should count Cassini out yet," said Curt Niebur, Cassini program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "The journey ahead is going to be a truly thrilling ride."
"The spacecraft will repeatedly climb high above Saturn's poles, flying just outside its narrow F ring 20 times. After a last targeted Titan flyby, the spacecraft will then dive between Saturn's uppermost atmosphere and its innermost ring 22 times," said Brian Dunbar, a NASA official.
The series of dives will be performed before Cassini plunges to its death in September next year.
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the installation comprises an enclosed orb-like structure that offers an all-immersive light experience for one viewer at a time.
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the collection aims to highlight the obvious contrast between two contradictory materials - the luxury of marble and the cheap, throwaway nature of plastic containers.
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%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nybooks/~3/a5jhSOu9B1U/ The Best Ways to Deal with the Refugee Crisis Ask most refugees what they want most and they will likely say: “To go home.” The long-standing humanitarian aid system was designed for a world where wars between states displaced refugees for short periods of time into refugee camps before they did go home. Today none of these assumptions hold. culture
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%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nybooks/~3/GhWcar1GLJg/ The Trouble with Sombreros Novelist Lionel Shriver's speech expressing her hope that identity politics and the concept of cultural appropriation would turn out to be passing fads contains a kernel of truth encased by a husk of cultural and historical blindness. It seems clear that one part of the fiction writer's job is “to step into other people's shoes.” But to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a hat is more than just a hat. Sometimes it is a symbol—and a racist one, at that. culture
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%feed http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nybooks/~3/sm4r7W0sSPo/ Can the Unthinkable Happen? Seven weeks to go; can the unthinkable happen? We believe that surely it cannot. We can read the polls, which are more reassuring than not, and Nate Silver's probability calculations, which have consistently shown since the summer, with fluctuations, that Hillary Clinton is far more likely to be elected than Donald Trump. We exhale and even allow ourselves to daydream a little when we read reports that Clinton is close or occasionally ahead in states like Arizona and even Georgia, where wins would ensure a resounding rejection of Trumpismus. But these points are somehow never quite as reassuring as they ought to be. culture
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%feed https://www.newscientist.com/article/2106508-surfing-on-a-turtles-tail-makes-swinging-crabs-monogamous/ Surfing on a turtle's tail makes swinging crabs monogamous A tiny ocean surfing crab adapts its mating systems to its home, opting for a promiscuous lifestyle on floating debris and a single mate when riding a turtle gaia
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%feed https://www.newscientist.com/article/2106529-arctic-ice-melt-is-killing-birds-and-will-leave-caribou-stranded/ Arctic ice melt is killing birds and will leave caribou stranded The trend for more sea ice to melt sooner spells trouble for Arctic ecosystems on an unprecedented scale and it's not just polar bears that are in peril gaia
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%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/09/21/nikons-500-360-degree-action-cam-aims-to-bring-vr-to-the-masses/ Nikon's $500 360-degree action cam aims to bring VR to the masses If the future of virtual reality is tied directly to the quality of content we're able to create, companies like Nikon and Samsung are certainly giving us the tools needed to make great stuff. Nikon today announced more details about its consumer-level entry into the VR space, the ‘KeyMission 360.' Earlier this year, we brought you news of Nikon's ‘KeyMission 360,' a consumer-focused 3D action camera capable of 360-degree filming in 4k UHD resolution. Today, we know a little more. The camera is set to arrive in October, and it'll set you back $500. While a bit more expensive than Samsung's ‘Gear…
%feed http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/09/20/tumblr-brings-apples-live-photos-web/ Tumblr brings Apple's ‘Live Photos' to the web Apple's ‘Live Photos,' short gif-like videos that capture the moments after a photo is taken, are coming to Tumblr. Announced today, Tumblr will begin supporting Live Photos on the web, in addition to providing tools that help other developers do the same. An early-adopter of the technology on mobile, Tumblr beat Google Photos and Facebook by months, and weeks, respectively. Its mobile suite, GIF Maker, already allowed you to turn Live Photos into GIFs you could share on the desktop site, but now it seems you won't have to — well, unless you want to share them elsewhere; most of the web…
%feed http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2016/09/20/this-ingenious-netflix-hack-saves-you-6-minutes-for-each-hour-watched/ This ingenious Netflix hack saves you 6 minutes for each hour watched If you're like the rest of America, chances are you sneak in the occasional Netflix binge. What if I told you that you could catch everything you'd normally take an hour to watch in a mere 54 minutes; impossible, right? Actually, you could go even faster if you're able to keep up. Efficiency is Everything concocted a rather simple hack using Chrome and Netflix to speed up playback. Doing so allows you to watch all your favorite shows, but in record time. The key is to set the playback speed at around 1.1 or 1.2x, which is not really enough to…
%feed http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2016/09/20/microsoft-new-nokia-phone/ Microsoft unveils a new Nokia phone and it looks so 2002 You might've given up on Nokia a long time ago, but it seems Microsoft still hasn't. In an unexpected announcement this morning, the industry legend unveiled its new Nokia 216 feature phone. Set to launch next month in India, the phone will run Series 30 OS and will pack a 2.4-inch QVGA display, 0.3-megapixel front and rear cameras and a removable 1020mAh battery. There'll also be a dual-sim version of the device. Here's the full list of specs and features: 118 x 50 x 13.5 mm 82.6 g 2.4 inch, 240 x 320 resolution, LCD display Front Camera with flash Rear camera, CMOS sensor, LED Flash 1020mAh…
%feed http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2016/09/19/this-intricate-box-is-an-old-school-porn-collectors-dream/ This intricate box is an old-school porn collector's dream When it comes to hiding porn, the computer has revolutionized the game. Gone are the days of stashing magazines and VHS tapes under a mattress, or in that box in the closet. Now, we can easily encrypt entire drives, folders or files containing all our ‘for your eyes only' material. But there are still a great deal of people that don't really ‘get' computers and probably a few more that still aren't buying into the hype surrounding them. For those types, there's apparently a thing that exists, at least according to this faceless guy demonstrating it on Imgur. The box itself…
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%feed https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160920103618.htm Earthquakes, ‘Mars-quakes,' and the possibility of life A new study shows that rocks formed by the grinding together of other rocks during earthquakes are rich in trapped hydrogen -- a finding that suggests similar seismic activity on Mars may produce enough hydrogen to support life. astronomy
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Ask most refugees what they want most and they will likely say: “To go home.” The long-standing humanitarian aid system was designed for a world where wars between states displaced refugees for short periods of time into refugee camps before they did go home. Today none of these assumptions hold.![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2Fa5jhSOu9B1U&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
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Novelist Lionel Shriver's speech expressing her hope that identity politics and the concept of cultural appropriation would turn out to be passing fads contains a kernel of truth encased by a husk of cultural and historical blindness. It seems clear that one part of the fiction writer's job is “to step into other people's shoes.” But to paraphrase Freud, sometimes a hat is more than just a hat. Sometimes it is a symbol—and a racist one, at that.![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2FGhWcar1GLJg&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
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Seven weeks to go; can the unthinkable happen? We believe that surely it cannot. We can read the polls, which are more reassuring than not, and Nate Silver's probability calculations, which have consistently shown since the summer, with fluctuations, that Hillary Clinton is far more likely to be elected than Donald Trump. We exhale and even allow ourselves to daydream a little when we read reports that Clinton is close or occasionally ahead in states like Arizona and even Georgia, where wins would ensure a resounding rejection of Trumpismus. But these points are somehow never quite as reassuring as they ought to be.![]("http://chimpfeedr.com/img/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fnybooks%2F%7E4%2Fsm4r7W0sSPo&width=540&mix=42dfe-culture")
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