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

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

AI-Aided Cameras Mean No More Car Mirrors, No More Blind Spots


https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/advanced-cars/mitsubishi-electric-develops-highperformance-aibased-mirrorless-car-technology

Monday, February 26, 2018

AT&T loses years-long quest to cripple FTC authority over telecoms


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/att-loses-years-long-quest-to-cripple-ftc-authority-over-telecoms/

These storms were so bad they made scientists want to invent a whole new category


https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/these-storms-were-so-bad-they-made-scientists-want-to-invent-a-whole-new-category

Methane-Sniffing Orbiter Finishes 'Aerobraking' Dives Through Mars' Atmosphere


https://www.space.com/39796-methane-sniffing-mars-orbiter-aerobraking-dives.html

Want to be more rational? Learn another language

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/speak-another-language-more-rational

Winging it. Convergent evolution

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21690022-convergent-evolution

New Study Brings Antarctic Ice Loss Into Sharper Focus

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/new-study-brings-antarctic-ice-loss-into-sharper-focus

How did life begin? It’s Chemistry 101, but in space

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/how-did-life-begin-its-chemistry-101-but-in-space/

THE NOVELIST WHO INSPIRED ELON MUSK. If you want to understand where society is heading, read the novels of Iain M. Banks, Silicon Valley’s favourite author


https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/the-daily/the-novelist-who-inspired-elon-musk

On Second Thought, the Moon's Water May Be Widespread and Immobile

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/on-second-thought-the-moons-water-may-be-widespread-and-immobile

Newly invented eyedrops could replace glasses altogether

https://www.rt.com/news/419711-eyedrops-invention-israel-glasses/

This is what the entire internet looked like in 1973

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/this-is-what-the-entire-internet-looked-like-in-1973/

Opera Says Its Next Opera Release Will Have the Fastest Ad Blocker on the Block

http://news.softpedia.com/news/opera-says-its-next-opera-release-will-have-the-fastest-ad-blocker-on-the-block-519916.shtml

How real engineers play basketball - knowledge over skill (video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVteLb2ZoWM

Friday, February 23, 2018

CERN scientists get antimatter ready for its first road trip

https://newatlas.com/cern-plan-transport-antimatter/53536/

Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble With the Real World

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-self-taught-artificial-intelligence-has-trouble-with-the-real-world-20180221

Scientist suddenly tells all about Climate Change in 2018 (video)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgh3Obf4LeA

Delingpole: NOAA Caught Adjusting Big Freeze out of Existence

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/20/delingpole-noaa-caught-adjusting-big-freeze-out-of-existence/

Let’s Honor the Mothers of Modern Gynecology

https://awakenwfu.com/2018/02/09/lets-honor-the-mothers-of-modern-gynecology/

Bitcoin owes its greatness to hallucinogenic fungi


https://medium.com/@izetex_project/bitcoin-owes-its-greatness-to-hallucinogenic-fungi-17a5ef79f56

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Council discusses space threats and opportunities posed by China


http://spacenews.com/council-discusses-space-threats-and-opportunities-posed-by-china/

New printing technique uses cells and molecules to recreate biological structures

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180215105750.htm

No evidence to support link between violent video games and behavior

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180116131317.htm

'Brain on a chip' reveals how the brain folds. Physics and biology meet in a new model of brain development

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180220161351.htm

New stem-cell based stroke treatment repairs damaged brain tissue

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180215105742.htm

Women who clean at home or work face increased lung function decline

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180216084912.htm

Largest study of its kind finds alcohol use biggest risk factor for dementia

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180220183954.htm

Brain aging may begin earlier than expected

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180220124548.htm

Quantum recurrence: Everything goes back to the way it was

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180222145053.htm

20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Engines What do catapults, black holes and panda poop have in common?

http://discovermagazine.com/2018/mar/20-things-you-didnt-know-about--engines

Jellyfish Chips: A Delicious Oxymoron

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/02/20/jellyfish-chips/

10 Ways Space Changes the Body


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/02/19/10-ways-space-changes-the-body/

5 tech hotspots to watch - and we don't mean Silicon Valley

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/5-hotspots-for-tech-innovation-outside-of-the-us

Study Shows That Global Warming Will NOT Alter The Jet Stream


https://principia-scientific.org/study-shows-that-global-warming-will-not-alter-the-jet-stream/

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Fitbit analyzed data on 6 billion nights of sleep – with fascinating results

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/fitbit-analyzed-data-on-6-billion-nights-of-sleep-with-fascinating-results

Researchers Reverse Alzheimer's in Mouse Models

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2018-02-14/research-team-successfully-reverses-alzheimers-disease-in-mouse-models

'Too much' brain calcium may cause Parkinson's

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320956.php

Data detectives shift suspicions in Alzheimer's to inside villain

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-02-shift-suspicions-alzheimer-villain.html

Pulsating Aurora Mysteries Uncovered with Help from NASA’s THEMIS Mission


https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/pulsating-aurora-mysteries-uncovered-with-help-from-nasa-s-themis-mission/

The Northern Lights, the Magnetic Field and Life


http://www.manyworlds.space/index.php/2018/02/19/the-northern-lights-the-magnetic-field-and-life/

How Would We React to Finding Aliens?

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/02/how-would-people-react-alien-life-discovery-aaas-space-science/

The 'breakthrough' fast-track operation to save patients with deadly pancreatic cancer


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5410315/The-operation-save-patients-pancreatic-cancer.html

Olympic Winter Games Offer Glimpse of Sports’ Future

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/olympic-winter-games-offer-glimpse-sports-future-pete-giorgio

THIS GORGEOUS CLOCK MAKES THE TIME APPEAR OUT OF NOWHERE

https://www.wired.com/story/fetish-etch-clock/

SATURN’S B RING PEAKS

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/02/Saturn_s_B_ring_peaks

The Real Arctic Vs The Imaginary Arctic Of Climate Scientists (video)


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

Monday, February 19, 2018

Court Rules Embedding Tweets Is Copyright Infringement


https://freedomoutpost.com/court-rules-embedding-tweets-copyright-infringement/

Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, the native Caribbeans


https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/natives-of-the-caribbean-wiped-out-during-colonization-left-dna-behind/

As Strict EU Privacy Rules Loom, #Facebook Hearing Highlights Challenges for US Tech Giants


https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/james-carstensen/strict-eu-privacy-rules-loom-facebook-hearing-highlights-challenges-us

In the world of voice-recognition, not all accents are equal. But you can train your gadgets to understand what you’re saying


https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21737017-you-can-train-your-gadgets-understand-what-youre-saying-world

Giant nerves key to cuttlefish's incredible camouflage capability

https://newatlas.com/giant-nerves-cuttlefish-stealth/53441/

Peculiar superconductor aids quest for quantum computing

https://newatlas.com/topological-superconductor-majorana-fermion/53463/

Rubber-metal composite material stiffens up in response to stress

https://newatlas.com/rubber-material-metal-pressure/53453/

How ketamine relieves depression by suppressing the brain's "anti-reward" center

https://newatlas.com/ketamine-depression-brain-mechanism/53451/

MIT's thermal resonator generates electricity from the air's daily temperature cycle

https://newatlas.com/mit-thermal-resonator-temperature-changes-electricity/53456/

Mercedes' 1,000+ hp Project One hypercar inspires 3,100-hp powerboat

https://newatlas.com/cigarette-mercedes-one-powerboat/53448/

WHY SCIENTIFIC PEER REVIEW IS A SHAM


http://www.wakingtimes.com/2018/02/19/scientific-peer-review-sham/

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

India fines Google $21,000,000 for „indulging in practices of search bias“


https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/india-fines-google-21-million-for-indulging-in-practices-of-search-bias

Nobody Has Figured Out How to Optimize for Deep Learning - Chris Thomas, McKinsey & Co

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nobody-has-figured-out-how-optimize-deep-learning-chris-towson/

Hundreds of Scientists Tell the World That the GMO and Cancer Link is Real

http://trueorganicandfree.com/hundreds-scientists-tell-world-gmo-and-cancer-link-real/

Pentagon space budget shaped by threats from Russia, China


http://spacenews.com/pentagon-space-budget-shaped-by-threats-from-russia-china/

Energy riches fuel bitcoin craze for speculation-shy Iceland


https://apnews.com/a6cd50b37105447991be9a9ce76c2421/Energy-riches-fuel-bitcoin-craze-for-speculation-shy-Iceland

New crayfish that doesn't need males to mate becomes all-powerful

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-43032061

Human Eggs Developed to Maturity in the Lab for the First Time

https://futurism.com/human-eggs-developed-maturity-lab-first-time/

DARPA Is Planning to Hack the Human Brain to Let Us “Upload” Skills

https://futurism.com/darpa-is-planning-to-hack-the-human-brain-to-let-us-upload-skills/

We Can Now Use Stem Cells to Grow Functioning Kidney Tissue

https://futurism.com/functioning-kidney-tissue-grown-inside-living-organism/

Welcome to the Era of the Computer-Generated Human


https://futurism.com/blurring-the-lines-this-girl-isnt-real/

Resonance Raman signature of intertube excitons in compositionally-defined carbon nanotube bundles

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03057-7

The black box set to revolutionize the search for life beyond Earth


https://phys.org/news/2018-02-black-revolutionize-life-earth.html

Monday, February 12, 2018

HPV (Gardasil) Cervical Cancer Vaccine Fraudulent on Every Level


http://www.jchristoff.com/hpv-gardasil-cervical-cancer-vaccine-fraudulent-on-every-level/

What Was Darwin’s ‘Original’ Thought? Nancy Pearcey

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/nancy-pearcey/what-was-darwins-original-thought

Scientists create functioning kidney tissue

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180209112402.htm

New malleable 'electronic skin' self-healable, recyclable

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180209170717.htm

Water filtration breakthrough using metal-organic frameworks

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180209170720.htm

Cancer-fighting nanorobots programmed to seek and destroy tumors

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212112000.htm

Sea level rise accelerating: acceleration in 25-year satellite sea level record


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212150739.htm

A Neoteric Human - Elon Musk


https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/neoteric-human-elon-musk-kapil-panchal/

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Established story about how humans came from Africa may be wrong, claims controversial new study

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/humans-came-from-africa-crete-study-australopithecus-early-fossil-a7929521.html

Viewing The Present Through The Lens of History


https://www.bebee.com/producer/@phil-johnson/viewing-the-present-through-the-lens-of-history

How Wind Farms Destroy the Environment (videos)

https://greenjihad.com/2018/02/07/how-wind-farms-destroy-the-environment/

Google's self-learning AI AlphaZero masters chess in 4 hours (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9SlVdv1PY

The Falcon Heavy test flight included a copy of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels


https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/6/16980538/spacex-falcon-heavy-isaac-asimovs-foundation-series

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Q & A with Ty & Charlene Bollinger Part 1 - The Truth About Vaccines (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiA8waaylI

The good, the bad and the ugly? Amazon, Apple & healthcare

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-bad-ugly-amazon-apple-healthcare-lucien-engelen/

BLADE STUNNERS Inside the Chinese sex doll factory making ‘smart’ robots that can also talk, play music and even do the dishes

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5483178/sex-robots-doll-china-factory-smart-exdoll/

Don’t Let the Battery be the Boss

https://inside.battelle.org/blog-details/don-t-let-the-battery-be-the-boss

5 Myths About Depression We Need to Shut Down Immediately. So long as misconceptions about mental illness persist, so too will stigma. Posted Feb 01, 2018

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nurturing-self-compassion/201802/5-myths-about-depression-we-need-shut-down-immediately

Researchers Discover 'Anxiety Cells' In The Brain


https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/31/582112597/researchers-discover-anxiety-cells-in-the-brain

Why is loneliness so toxic? Scientists are exploring what it does to the human body

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/why-is-loneliness-so-toxic/article37734381/

Tech giants are the robber barons of our time

https://nypost.com/2018/02/03/big-techs-monopolistic-rule-is-hiding-in-plain-sight/

NewSpace Start-Up Aims To Send First Brazilian Probe To Moon

https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2018/01/29/newspace-start-up-aims-to-send-first-brazilian-probe-to-moon/

Portable DNA Sequencer Searches for Life in Extraterrestrial-Like Conditions

https://www.space.com/39509-portable-dna-sequencer-search-for-life-tech.html

A revolution in health care is coming

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21736138-welcome-doctor-you-revolution-health-care-coming

NASA’s Small Spacecraft Produces First 883-Gigahertz Global Ice-Cloud Map

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/nasa-s-small-spacecraft-produces-first-883-gigahertz-global-ice-cloud-map/

Hubble’s Majestic Spiral in Pegasus


https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2018/hubbles-majestic-spiral-in-pegasus/