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The Historyscoper's Science and Technology Watch Blog Apr. 2, 2015

Monday, December 25, 2017

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Be Realistic About AI | Michael L. Littman | TEDxProvidence (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTqdrPXj8A

Where AI is today and where it's going. | Richard Socher | TEDxSanFrancisco (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cmx7V4oIR8

True Artificial Intelligence will change everything | Juergen Schmidhuber | TEDxLakeComo (video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y7PLaxXUrs

Why We are Alone in the Galaxy | Marc Defant | TEDxUSF (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nCOhrYV7eg

The weirdness of water could be the answer | Marcia Barbosa | TEDxCERN (video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OLFwkfPxCg

What an Indian tiger’s bid for freedom says about humans and nature

https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21732693-one-big-cat-five-elephants-70-men-and-month-long-chase-across-india-what-indian

The compassion deficit


https://www.theglobeandmail.com/appview/news/national/compassion-deficit-human-nature-change/article37423670/

Why Not Admit There is a Problem With Math and Music? Dan Formosa at TEDxDrexelU (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHSv94aTTnk

Yann LeCun - How Does The Brain Learn So Quickly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUZhLzaD3b8

Geoffrey Hinton talk "What is wrong with convolutional neural nets ?" (video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTawFwUvnLE

CAPSULE NETWORKS: A VIDEO PRESENTATION

https://calculatedcontent.com/2017/12/24/capsule-networks-a-video-presentation/

Scientists prove we're all connected. Here's how. (video)

https://www.facebook.com/mindvalley/videos/1720588267986178/

Diet rich in apples, tomatoes may help repair lungs of ex-smokers, study suggests

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/20/mccabe-draws-blank-on-democrats-funding-trump-dossier-new-subpoenas-planned.html

SpaceX rocket triggers social media frenzy, UFO conspiracy theories

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/spacex-rocket-triggers-social-media-frenzy-ufo-conspiracy-theories/article/2644291

Arecibo Radar Returns with Asteroid Phaethon Images

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/arecibo-radar-returns-with-asteroid-phaethon-images/

Russia's Plan To Build a Luxury Hotel on the ISS

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/a14471796/luxury-hotel-iss/

Copernicus DIAS is biggest ESA contract for Poland to date

http://spacenews.com/copernicus-dias-is-biggest-esa-contract-for-poland-to-date/

Mann's Hockey Stick "Whitewash" - Steve McIntyre (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqzcA7SsqSA

Mark Steyn - The Fraudulent Hockey Stick - 10th ICCC (video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbAgl7w_Vws

Friday, December 22, 2017

When Disaster Strikes: What do extreme weather predictions and clouds have to do with one another?

http://www.tabush.com/blog/when-disaster-strikes-what-do-extreme-weather-predictions-and-clouds-have-to-do-with-one-another

How 3,000 very good golden retrievers could help all dogs live longer

http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/pets/ct-golden-retriever-dog-age-study-20171214-story.html

Rudolph, why is your nose so bright? Scientists at Johns Hopkins have an idea

http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-rudolph-grinch-scrooge-explained-20171219-story.html

Prof Bill Grey - Why Climate Models are Wrong (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL6ZCmmCU7c

Two Tempting Reprise Missions: Explore Titan or Bring Back a Piece of A Comet


http://www.manyworlds.space/index.php/2017/12/22/two-tempting-return-missions-explore-titan-or-bring-back-a-piece-of-a-comet/

Noam Chomsky's climate claims debunked (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1UrZaaieA

EncouragingReality (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghofnrkDsiQ

Italy’s Sitael gets Platino contract for Vega-optimised small satellites

http://spacenews.com/italys-sitael-gets-plantino-contract-for-vega-optimised-small-satellites/

Genius Buys A 100 Year Old Cement Factory And Turns It Into Something Incredible (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acgbkA4OoZY

Surprise! New Horizons Probe's Next Flyby Target Has at Least One Moon

https://www.space.com/39090-moon-spotted-orbiting-new-horizons-mu69.html

The mysterious bright streaks

http://cosmicdiary.org/lfenton/2017/12/18/the-mysterious-bright-streaks/

UK Boasts Of New Wet Summer Early Warning System

https://principia-scientific.org/uk-boasts-of-new-wet-summer-early-warning-system/

The Physics of Climate Change – A Better Understanding (video)

https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://greenjihad.com/2017/12/18/the-physics-of-climate-change-a-better-understanding/

2017: Coldest Summer For 100 Years In Queensland, Australia

https://principia-scientific.org/2017-coldest-summer-for-100-years-in-queensland-australia/

Life on Mars: If Past Life on Mars Existed, it Co-evolved with the Martian Environment

https://www.seti.org/life-on-mars-if-past-life-existed-it-coevolved-with-martian-environment

Astrocast adds $1.1 million to seed round

http://spacenews.com/astrocast-adds-1-1-million-to-seed-round/

A visit to the largest computer museum in the world: The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum

https://ileriseviye.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/a-visit-to-the-largest-computer-museum-in-the-world-the-heinz-nixdorf-museumsforum/

Liver cancer: Lipid synthesis promotes tumor formation


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171211140440.htm

Monday, December 18, 2017

How Bacteria May Help Regulate Blood Pressure

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bacteria-may-help-regulate-blood-pressure/

The Wildly Fraudulent Obama National Climate Assessment

https://greenjihad.com/2017/12/16/the-wildly-fraudulent-obama-national-climate-assessment/

NASA has Googled the stars — and found new rocky planets in a 'major discovery'

http://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-google-kepler-new-planets-artificial-intelligence-2017-12

Where in the Worlds has SETI Institute Been? - Dec 4 – Dec 10, 2017

https://www.seti.org/where-in-the-worlds-has-seti-been-dec-10-2017

Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

The #Trump administration reportedly wants 7 words and phrases banned at the CDC

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/12/16/the-trump-administration-reportedly-wants-7-words-and-phrases-banned-at-the-cdc/23309292/

Forest Fire Burn Acreage Plummets

https://principia-scientific.org/forest-fire-burn-acreage-plummets/

Why “Net Neutrality” Rules Were Rejected (video)

https://greenjihad.com/2017/12/16/why-net-neutrality-rules-were-rejected/

Medical marijuana compound non-addictive, should not be scheduled drug - WHO

https://www.rt.com/news/413278-medical-marijuana-cannabidiol-report/

Net Neutrality Repeal Causes Total Meltdown At CNN

https://allenwestrepublic.com/net-neutrality-repeal-causes-total-meltdown-at-cnn/

Study: Climate change causes mental illness

https://greenjihad.com/2017/12/15/study-climate-change-causes-mental-illness/

Massive Primordial Galaxies Found Swimming in Vast Ocean of Dark Matter

https://cmarchesin.blogspot.com/2017/12/massive-primordial-galaxies-found.html

NASA New Horizon's Kuiper Belt Target MU69 Could Be Hiding A Moon

http://www.ibtimes.com/nasa-new-horizons-kuiper-belt-target-mu69-could-be-hiding-moon-2627793

#Trump signs order directing NASA to prepare a return to the moon

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/11/trump-signs-order-directing-nasa-prepare-return-moon/940133001/

Female Scientists Report A Horrifying Culture Of Sexual Assault #women

https://principia-scientific.org/female-scientists-report-a-horrifying-culture-of-sexual-assault/

SF SPCA Robot chases away Homeless people instead of helping them

https://medium.com/@ivonne.teoh/sf-spca-robot-chases-away-homeless-people-instead-of-helping-them-9aa649833522

Condensation Nuclei And Carbon Dioxide

https://principia-scientific.org/condensation-nuclei-and-carbon-dioxide/

Microsoft’s Q# quantum programming language out now in preview

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/microsofts-q-quantum-programming-language-out-now-in-preview/

New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/12/11/new-silicon-structure-opens-gate-quantum-computers

Researchers: May Be A Link Between Alzheimer’s And Herbicides


https://principia-scientific.org/researchers-may-be-a-link-between-alzheimers-and-herbicides/

Scientists Have Found Fossils of an Ancient Crocoduck (Your Move, Kirk Cameron)

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/12/11/scientists-have-found-fossils-of-an-ancient-crocoduck-your-move-kirk-cameron/

Expected: 15 million Americans will be living with Alzheimer’s by 2060

http://www.gopusa.com/?p=34884

Return of the ’Ologies: Natural History Makes a Comeback on Campus

https://undark.org/article/natural-history-comeback-campus/

The Anthropocene: What Now? Donate to SETI Institute - David Grinspoon (SETI Talks 2017) (video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3ZDcYYPZw

Saturday, December 9, 2017

This Bio-Hacking Anti-Aging Product Has a Unique Cult Following: Doctors


http://observer.com/2017/07/elysium-health-basis-nad-supplement/

Digging Up the Past | Joseph McGill | TEDxRapidCity (video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pARedEd5LI0

A New Way to Find Signals of Habitable Exoplanets?

http://www.manyworlds.space/index.php/2017/12/04/a-new-way-to-find-signals-of-habitable-exoplanets/

Artificial Intelligence will remake the real estate industry – for the better

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/artificial-intelligence-remake-real-estate-industry-better-sicklick/

Mutations in neurons accumulate as we age: The process may explain normal cognitive decline and neurodegeneration

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-12-mutations-neurons-accumulate-age-cognitive.html

Hey NASA! Why Isn't There A Camera On The Moon Filming Earth? (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nKWWsXY8qk

THE DOWNLOADABLE BRAIN: WE’RE CLOSER THAN WE THINK TO IMMORTALITY

http://lithub.com/the-downloadable-brain-were-closer-than-we-think-to-immortality/

How Has the World’s Surface Changed Over Time?

https://www.envirotech-online.com/news/environmental-laboratory/7/breaking_news/how_has_the_worlds_surface_changed_over_time/40155

In Just 4 Hours, Google's AI Mastered All The Chess Knowledge in History

http://www.sciencealert.com/it-took-4-hours-google-s-ai-world-s-best-chess-player-deepmind-alphazero

Top Science Discoveries of 2017 Documentary (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCnOH2Xbp4

Huge Mass Of Magma Rising Under Northeast US

https://principia-scientific.org/huge-mass-of-magma-rising-under-northeast-us/

Israeli device banishes finger-pricking for sugar levels in diabetes patients

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-device-banishes-finger-pricking-for-sugar-levels-in-diabetes-patients/

In Search of a High IQ African Population - Do Africans Really Have an IQ of 70? (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxAhwYoZQKU

Ripples of rock

http://cosmicdiary.org/lfenton/2017/12/04/1448/

Theory Update: Neutrinos Sometimes Collide With Earth

https://principia-scientific.org/theory-update-neutrinos-sometimes-collide-with-earth/

Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles) (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

This tiny robot made of algae could swim through your body and kill cancer cells

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/12/tiny-robot-algae-kill-cancer-cells/

4 Strange New Ways to Compute

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/computing/hardware/4-strange-new-ways-to-make-a-computer

Greenhouse Gas Theory Omitted From Top Government Climate Report

https://principia-scientific.org/greenhouse-gas-theory-omitted-from-top-government-climate-report/

The Periodic Table of All of the Exoplanets Found So Far

http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/the-periodic-table-of-all-of-the-exoplanets-found-so-far

A new ‘accelerator’ aims to bring big science to psychology

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/new-accelerator-aims-bring-big-science-psychology

Study: IBM’s Watson Found Cancer Treatments That Doctors Overlooked

http://bigthink.com/stephen-johnson/ibms-watson-supercomputer-found-treatments-for-323-cancer-patients-that-human-experts-overlooked

An Orbital Dance May Help Preserve Oceans on Icy Worlds

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2017/dance-preserves-oceans

Record Haul Of 215 Pterosaur Eggs Discovered

https://principia-scientific.org/record-haul-of-215-pterosaur-eggs-discovered/

Israeli startup partners with GE to help patients get quicker ultrasound reads

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-dia-hopes-imaging-software-will-shake-up-ultrasound-use/

Study Finds "Some of the Highest Values for Aluminium in Human Brain Tissue Yet Recorded" in Brains of Autistic Patients

http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/study-finds-some-highest-values-aluminium-human-brain-tissue-yet-recorded-brains-

Hubble Sees Galaxy Cluster Warping Space and Time

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2017/hubble-sees-galaxy-cluster-warping-space-and-time

Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/voyager-1-fires-up-thrusters-after-37/

Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth

https://electrek.co/2017/11/30/google-is-officially-100-sun-and-wind-powered-3-0-gigawatts-worth/

Musk says Tesla car will fly on first Falcon Heavy launch

http://spacenews.com/musk-says-tesla-car-will-fly-on-first-falcon-heavy-launch/

The Protein in the Freezer


http://www.kualumni.org/news/joanna-slusky-feature/

Friday, December 8, 2017

Power Causes Brain Damage

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/

Your Brain Is an Illusion Factory: Time, Color, Causality | Dean Buonomano (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=E0s_uKwDSmU

Drones: new EU-wide rules to boost safety and privacy

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20171129IPR89119/drones-new-eu-wide-rules-to-boost-safety-and-privacy

STUDY: Satellites Show No Acceleration In Global Warming For 23 Years

https://principia-scientific.org/study-satellites-show-no-acceleration-in-global-warming-for-23-years/

Population based training of neural networks

https://deepmind.com/blog/population-based-training-neural-networks/

EMAIL IS BROKEN. CAN ANYONE FIX IT?

https://www.wired.com/story/email-is-broken-can-anyone-fix-it/

The impossibility of intelligence explosion

https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-intelligence-explosion-5be4a9eda6ec

The Real Arctic Versus The Arctic Of Climate Scientists

https://principia-scientific.org/the-real-arctic-versus-the-arctic-of-climate-scientists/

Did Fish Learn to Walk?

https://www.icr.org/article/10126

New studies show brain impact of youth football

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-11-brain-impact-youth-football.html

Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself?


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/magazine/can-ai-be-taught-to-explain-itself.html

Scientific Proof Is A Myth

https://principia-scientific.org/scientific-proof-is-a-myth/

New conspiracy theorist claims to have proof Apollo moon landing was fake

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/11/26/new-conspiracy-theorist-claims-to-have-proof-apollo-moon-landing-was-fake/23288147/

Eno = AI + EQ: Designing a Financial AI That Recognizes and Responds to Emotion

https://medium.com/capitalonetech/eno-ai-eq-3d939a2f6a7b?linkId=44668259

Israel’s hightech – a major engine of growth

http://theettingerreport.com/Overseas-Investments/Israel%E2%80%99s-hightech-%E2%80%93-a-major-engine-of-growth.aspx

5 Climate Change Predictions Proven Wrong (video)

https://greenjihad.com/2017/11/26/5-climate-change-predictions-proven-wrong/

Smart Textiles Change the World

http://crealet.com/2016/03/smart-textiles-change-the-world/

WILL INCISIONS BECOME A THING OF THE PAST? THE EVOLUTION TO NON-INVASIVE FOCUSED ULTRASOUND

https://www.insightec.com/us/news-events/blog/2017/non-invasive-surgery-the-evolution-of-a-revolution

Smiling human faces are attractive to dogs—thanks to oxytocin

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-human-dogsthanks-oxytocin.html

The Real Science Behind The Unreal Predictions Of Major Earthquakes In 2018

https://edmdigest.com/news/science-earthquakes-2018/

Space Dust Could Help Life Jump from Planet to Planet


https://www.space.com/38846-space-dust-panspermia-alien-life.html

Why is it so cold on Pluto?


http://www.seti.org/why-is-it-so-cold-on-pluto