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

Friday, June 29, 2018

We solved the problem! Now let’s unsolve it.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/06/harvard-researchers-may-have-answer-to-why-youre-never-satisfied/

U.S. Judge Throws Out Climate Change Lawsuits Against Big Oil

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/06/26/u-s-judge-throws-out-climate-change-lawsuits-against-big-oil/

BBC Fail To Challenge Gummer’s Lies

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/bbc-fail-to-challenge-gummers-lies/

Nature Unbound IX – 21st Century Climate Change

https://judithcurry.com/2018/06/28/nature-unbound-ix-21st-century-climate-change/

About Hansen’s powerful demo that climate models work! :)

https://fabiusmaximus.com/2018/06/29/about-hansens-powerful-demo-that-climate-models-work/

The Problem With Lukewarm Climate Group Think

https://principia-scientific.org/the-problem-with-lukewarm-climate-group-think/

Climate Change Fears Akin To The 1980’S Nuclear Winter Scare

https://principia-scientific.org/climate-change-fears-akin-to-the-1980s-nuclear-winter-scare/

We May Be All Alone in the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests

http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/06/26/humans-alone-known-universe-a-new-oxford-study-suggests

A New Theory Of Gravity?

https://principia-scientific.org/a-new-theory-of-gravity/

NASA FDL Leverages Public/Private Partnership to Push New Boundaries of Space Science with Artificial Intelligence

https://seti.org/press-release/nasa-fdl-leverages-public-private-partnership-push-new-boundaries-space-science-artificial

Failing Tesla Cars Condemned For ‘Insanity’


https://principia-scientific.org/failing-tesla-cars-condemned-for-insanity

Germany allows Audi and Airbus to start testing their flying cars above Ingolstad

https://drivemag.com/news/germany-allows-audi-and-airbus-to-start-testing-their-flying-cars-above-ingolstadt

Germany allows Audi and Airbus to start testing their flying cars above Ingolstad

https://drivemag.com/news/germany-allows-audi-and-airbus-to-start-testing-their-flying-cars-above-ingolstadt

Will We Know Life When We See It? NASA-led Group Takes Stock of the Science

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/will-we-know-life-when-we-see-it-nasa-led-group-takes-stock-of-the-science/

"Is Hypnosis Fake?" Hypnotist stuns TEDX crowd (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RA2Zy_IZfQ

EM DRIVE - POLISH ENGINEER SOLVED PROBLEM ! (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vcW4MmLGfQ

Laser bursts generate electricity faster than any other method

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/laser-bursts-generate-electricity-faster-than-any-alvin-lieberman-/

ONLY 0.8% Of Tidal Gauges Show Sea Level Rise Near IPCC’s Alarmist Predictions!

https://principia-scientific.org/only-0-8-of-tidal-gauges-show-sea-level-rise-near-ipccs-alarmist-predictions/

NOAA May Return To Its Original Role

https://greenjihad.com/2018/06/26/noaa-may-return-to-its-original-role/

Antarctic ice loss has tripled in a decade. If it continues we are in serious trouble

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/06/13/ahntarctic-ice-loss-has-tripled-in-a-decade-if-that-continues-we-are-in-serious-trouble/

Exclusive: Global warming set to exceed 1.5°C, slow growth - U.N. draft

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-report-exclusive/exclusive-global-warming-set-to-exceed-1-5c-slow-growth-u-n-draft-idUSKBN1JA1HD

Flooding from sea level rise threatens over 300,000 US coastal homes – study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/17/sea-level-rise-impact-us-coastal-homes-study-climate-change

Trump administration tightens rules for federal scientists talking to reporters

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-trump-policy-usgs-scientists-20180621-story.html

A Leading Climate Agency May Lose Its Climate Focus

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/climate/noaa-climate-mission.html

30 years later, deniers are still lying about Hansen’s amazing global warming prediction

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/25/30-years-later-deniers-are-still-lying-about-hansens-amazing-global-warming-prediction

30 Years Later, ‘Scientists Agree’ Hansen Got It Right. Hardly.

https://principia-scientific.org/30-years-later-scientists-agree-hansen-got-it-right-hardly/

How machine intelligence is remaking the American economy


http://bigthink.com/videos/michael-li-how-machine-intelligence-is-remaking-the-american-economy

Saturday, June 23, 2018

PHILAE WAVING

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/06/Philae_waving

Creepy Patents Show #Facebook's Relentless Drive to Track Every Detail of Users' Lives

https://pjmedia.com/trending/creepy-patents-show-facebooks-relentless-drive-to-track-every-detail-of-users-lives/

Magical Wind Power: Illusions Versus Reality

https://principia-scientific.org/magical-wind-power-illusions-versus-reality/

Google Is Training Machines to Predict When a Patient Will Die.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/google-training-machines-predict-when-patient-die-yurii-pozniak/

Ars on your lunch break, part two: History, reality, and robots for the elderly. Talking about the intersection of robotics and AI with Rodney Brooks.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ars-on-your-lunch-break-part-two-history-reality-and-robots-for-the-elderly/

NASA outlines its plan to defend the Earth from asteroids

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-outlines-its-plan-to-defend-the-earth-from-asteroids/

Japan's Hayabusa2 Asteroid Probe Snaps Best Pics Yet of Its Target Ryugu

https://www.space.com/40948-japan-hayabusa2-probe-nears-asteroid-ryugu.html

Mars Dust Storm Now 'Planet-Encircling,' Dimming Hopes For NASA Rover

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622288957/mars-dust-storm-now-planet-encircling-dimming-hopes-for-nasa-rover

The water in the tropical Atlantic is the coldest in decades. That may stymie hurricane season.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/06/18/the-water-in-the-tropical-atlantic-is-the-coldest-in-decades-that-may-stymie-hurricane-season/

France's plastic revolution

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/earthrise/2018/06/france-plastic-revolution-180614100259870.html

Why the Supreme Court’s software patent ban didn’t last

https://arstechnica.com/features/2018/06/why-the-supreme-courts-software-patent-ban-didnt-last/

How to have a good Fourth Industrial Revolution

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/how-to-have-a-good-fourth-industrial-revolution-62ea95e5-16ce-4850-b6f6-f8a88b5690ed

New NASA mission to detect plant water use from space

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2752/new-nasa-mission-to-detect-plant-water-use-from-space/

GOP senators challenge funding for global warming education program. Four Republican senators say a $4 million program to boost climate reporting by meteorologists is not science, but "propagandizing.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-senators-challenge-funding-global-warming-education-program-n885221

Physicist Dr. Fred Singer: The Sea Is Rising, but Not Because of Climate Change

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2018/05/physicist-dr-fred-singer-sea-is-rising.html

CO2 Just Hit 410ppm – and All is Well

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/05/05/co2-just-hit-410ppm-and-all-is-well/

A 145-year Continent-wide Increase in Mountain-top Species Richness

http://www.co2science.org/articles/V21/jun/a7.php

Earth Alert: Huge Sunspot Opens & Scientists Brace For Solar Flares

https://principia-scientific.org/earth-alert-huge-sunspot-opens-scientists-brace-for-solar-flares/

Flawed analysis casts doubt on years of evolutionary research

https://phys.org/news/2016-10-flawed-analysis-years-evolutionary.html

Evolving Understanding of Antarctic Ice‐Sheet Physics and Ambiguity in Probabilistic Sea‐Level Projections

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017EF000663

Should we be worried about surging Antarctic ice melt and sea level rise?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/18/should-we-be-worried-about-surging-antarctic-ice-melt-and-sea-level-rise

A New Breed of Plant-Based Protein Aims to Compete on Meat-Centric Menus

https://www.ecowatch.com/beyond-burger-2579738388.html

“Space Force” Is The Start Of Trump Declassifying The US Secret Space Program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOep3jh2SvM

BBC Blame Climate Change For Mammal Extinctions–Official Report Says Otherwise

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/06/14/bbc-blame-climate-change-for-mammal-extinctions-official-report-says-otherwise/

Claim: Machine learning may be a game-changer for climate prediction

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/19/claim-machine-learning-may-be-a-game-changer-for-climate-prediction/

NO Australian Under Age Of 40 Has Experienced Any Global Warming

https://principia-scientific.org/no-australian-under-age-of-40-has-experienced-any-global-warming/

Warned 30 years ago, global warming ‘is in our living room’

https://www.apnews.com/dbd81ca2a7244ea088a8208bab1c87e2

Analysis: WRI data suggests emissions have already ‘peaked’ in 49 countries

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-wri-data-suggests-emissions-have-already-peaked-49-countries

Explainer: How scientists estimate ‘climate sensitivity’

https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-scientists-estimate-climate-sensitivity

Physicist – CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it – Video


https://www.iceagenow.info/physicist-co2-not-cause-climate-change-responds-video/

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

The Stanford Prison Experiment was massively influential. We just learned it was a fraud.

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-experiment-fraud-psychology-replication

NASA Researcher: Antarctica Still GAINING Ice

https://principia-scientific.org/nasa-researcher-antarctica-still-gaining-ice/

Is Antarctica’s Ice Melting Faster Than it Was a Decade Ago?

https://greenjihad.com/2018/06/18/is-antarcticas-ice-melting-faster-than-it-was-a-decade-ago/

The Neutron Problem

https://principia-scientific.org/the-neutron-problem/

Is Antarctica’s Ice Melting Faster Than it Was a Decade Ago?

https://greenjihad.com/2018/06/18/is-antarcticas-ice-melting-faster-than-it-was-a-decade-ago/

Swedish Scientists: Modern Warming ‘Does Not Stand Out’ In Last 2,500 Years!

https://principia-scientific.org/swedish-scientists-modern-warming-does-not-stand-out-in-last-2500-years/

Record Increase In Mountaintop Species Counters Alarmist Claims

https://principia-scientific.org/record-increase-in-mountaintop-species-counters-alarmist-claims/

How Filament Light Bulbs Cast A Shadow On The Greenhouse Gas Theory

https://principia-scientific.org/how-filament-light-bulbs-cast-a-shadow-on-the-greenhouse-gas-theory/

President Trump makes news at Space Council meeting by going off script

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/president-trump-makes-news-at-space-council-meeting-by-going-off-script/

Monsanto Company Named to Computerworld’s 2018 List of “100 Best Places to Work in IT”

https://monsanto.com/careers/articles/best-places-work-in-it/

There’s no need to panic about the rising sea level

http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/390729-theres-no-need-to-panic-about-the-rising-sea-level

Blockchain could revolutionize academic publishing

http://thehill.com/opinion/technology/392853-blockchain-could-revolutionize-academic-publishing

More Evidence Water Vapor Is The Big Climate Kahuna

https://principia-scientific.org/more-evidence-water-vapor-is-the-big-climate-kahuna/

Video: Crothers, S.J., Black Hole Geometry Analyzed

https://principia-scientific.org/video-crothers-s-j-black-hole-geometry-analyzed/

The Christian climate professor bridging the gap between science and faith

https://work.qz.com/1196718/climate-scientist-katharine-hayhoe-bridges-the-gap-between-science-and-faith/

Dust and Frost

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22511

Mars Rover Hunkers Down in Massive Dust Storm

https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/mars-rover-dust-storm/2018/06/11/id/865376/

Dementia now striking people in their 40s as mercury from vaccines causes slow, degenerative brain damage

https://www.naturalnews.com/050994_Alzheimers_vaccines_mercury_exposure.html

The Unofficial & Inconvenient History Of Climate Fraud

https://principia-scientific.org/the-unofficial-inconvenient-history-of-climate-fraud/

If Nuclear Power Is So Safe, Why Are We So Afraid Of It?

https://principia-scientific.org/if-nuclear-power-is-so-safe-why-are-we-so-afraid-of-it/

Corals Use Epigenetic Tricks To Adapt To Warmer And ‘More Acidic’ Water

https://principia-scientific.org/corals-use-epigenetic-tricks-to-adapt-to-warmer-and-more-acidic-water/

NASA Selects Advanced Space to Develop Future Peer-to-Peer Navigation System for Moon

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180607005347/en/NASA-Selects-Advanced-Space-Develop-Future-Peer-to-Peer

NASA shopping space station to industry, but Congress isn't buying

https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2018/06/nasa_shopping_space_station_to.html

NASA shopping space station to industry, but Congress isn't buying

https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2018/06/nasa_shopping_space_station_to.html

Bridenstine endorses Kavandi for NASA deputy administrator

http://spacenews.com/bridenstine-endorses-kavandi-for-nasa-deputy-administrator/

How Bursts of Ultrasound Can Be Used to Flip Switches in the Brain

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-bursts-ultrasound-can-used-flip-switches-brain-yurii-pozniak/

Reversal Of Earth’s Magnetic Field Linked To Plate Tectonics

https://principia-scientific.org/reversal-of-earths-magnetic-field-linked-to-plate-tectonics/

Reversal Of Earth’s Magnetic Field Linked To Plate Tectonics

https://principia-scientific.org/reversal-of-earths-magnetic-field-linked-to-plate-tectonics/

Bizarre Neutrino ‘Science’ Reported In Antarctica (Video)


https://principia-scientific.org/bizarre-neutrino-science-reported-in-antarctica-video/

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Video: Nobel Laureate Trashes CO2 Climate Obsession

https://principia-scientific.org/video-nobel-laureate-trashes-co2-climate-obsession/

‘Controlled Opposition’ Keeps Greenhouse Gas Theory On Life Support

https://principia-scientific.org/controlled-opposition-keeps-greenhouse-gas-theory-on-life-support/

Betrayers Of Truth: Fraud And Deceit In The Halls Of Science

https://principia-scientific.org/betrayers-truth-fraud-deceit-halls-science/

Icy Dunes on Pluto Reveal a Diverse and Dynamic Dwarf Planet

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/ames/icy-dunes-on-pluto-reveal-a-diverse-and-dynamic-dwarf-planet

What’s Wrong with MAC Authentication and Pre-shared Keys (PSKs) for BYOD and Guest Wi-Fi Access, Part II: User and IT Experience

https://theruckusroom.ruckuswireless.com/wi-fi/2018/04/19/whats-wrong-mac-authentication-pre-shared-keys-psks-byod-guest-wi-fi-access-part-ii-user-experience/

US once again has top supercomputer

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/news/us-once-again-has-top-supercomputer-1050785/

Women more susceptible than men to mysterious type of heart attack

https://globalnews.ca/news/4242540/university-of-alberta-minoca-heart-attack/

Electric Propulsion? Food for thought

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/electric-propulsion-food-thought-giannis-anastasiou/

Millions Of Wind Turbine Blades To Go To Landfill

https://principia-scientific.org/millions-of-wind-turbine-blades-to-go-to-landfill/

Groundbreaking treatment saves life of woman with late-stage breast cancer

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immunotherapy-treatment-saves-life-of-woman-with-late-stage-breast-cancer/

HIV vaccine elicits antibodies in animals that neutralize dozens of HIV strains

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180604125008.htm

The criminalization of science whistleblowers: A mind-blowing interview with Judy Mikovits, PhD

https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-06-08-the-criminalization-of-science-whistleblowers-a-mind-blowing-interview-with-judy-mikovits-phd.html

Actual Tidal Data Proves Australian Universities Lie About Sea Level Rises

https://principia-scientific.org/actual-tidal-data-proves-australian-universities-lie-about-sea-level-rises/

What if ET is an AI? After centuries searching for extraterrestrial life, we might find that first contact is not with organic creatures at all

https://aeon.co/essays/first-contact-what-if-we-find-not-organic-life-but-ets-ai

China hacked a Navy contractor and secured a trove of highly sensitive data on submarine warfare

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/china-hacked-a-navy-contractor-and-secured-a-trove-of-highly-sensitive-data-on-submarine-warfare/2018/06/08/6cc396fa-68e6-11e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html

Drugs cost too much. There is a better way to fund medical innovation

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/high-price-medicine-fund-medical-innovation

NASA just woke up a nuclear-powered probe 1 billion miles beyond Pluto — and it's approaching the farthest object humans have ever tried to visit


http://www.businessinsider.com/nasas-new-horizons-probe-wakes-to-explore-ultima-thule-2018-6

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The Scientific Case for Urgent Action to Limit Climate Change (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Q271UaNPo

Climate Change is Here. Now What? (video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf-aFkXS5_k

The Insanity of Climate Alarmism (video)

https://greenjihad.com/2018/06/05/the-insanity-of-climate-alarmism/

SELF-REGULARIZATION IN DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS: A PREVIEW

https://calculatedcontent.com/2018/06/05/self-regularization-in-deep-neural-networks-a-preview/

Time to Reboot our Schools

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-reboot-our-schools-eswari-jayaraman

Turning sports data into a slam dunk for learning

https://www.educationdive.com/news/turning-sports-data-into-a-slam-dunk-for-learning/524444/

NASA's Pluto-gazing New Horizons is awake and ready for its next close-up

https://mashable.com/2018/06/05/nasa-new-horizons-ultima-thule/

Tech Stocks Are Hitting Highs as Economic Uncertainty Rises

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/business/dealbook/tech-stocks-economic-uncertainty.html

Here are three technology trends changing the way you travel

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/three-technology-trends-changing-travel-tourism

Collusion: DEA bans plant medicines, then Big Pharma patents them for profits

https://newstarget.com/2016-12-12-big-pharma-colludes-with-dea-to-first-outlaw-natural-drugs-then-patent-them-to-earn-billions-for-pharma.html

Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms May Worsen With Periods

https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/06/03/for-women-with-borderline-personality-disorder-symptoms-may-worsen-with-periods/135859.html

How Microsoft Reinvented Itself: DealBook Briefing

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/business/dealbook/facebook-smartphones-data.html

Creativity and logic: the myth of the functional asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creativity-logic-myth-functional-asymmetry-cerebral-yurii-pozniak/

A Problem With Wind Power


https://principia-scientific.org/a-problem-with-wind-power/

Friday, June 1, 2018

Lika Guhathakurta and Ryan McGranaghan Talk About Space Weather

https://www.nasa.gov/ames/nisv-podcast-ep92-lika-guhathakurta-and-ryan-mcgranaghan/

A novel data-driven method to personalize cancer treatment

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-06-data-driven-method-personalize-cancer-treatment.html

World Cup on stop aging and increase the longevity of a person among bio-technologies, medical computer programs, AI and medical start-ups ?


https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/world-cup-stop-aging-increase-longevity-person-among-medical-pozniak/

This Is How the Internet Crosses the Ocean. Many people overlook the fact that the internet relies on vast networks of cables connecting continents under the sea.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kj7g/this-is-how-the-internet-crosses-the-ocean

Mass production of graphene, MIT develops process to make unlimited high quality graphene


http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/241100-2018-05-31-mass-production-of-graphene-mit-develops-process-to-make-unlimited.htm

Could Something Be Swimming In The Ocean Of Pluto?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billretherford/2018/05/31/could-something-be-swimming-in-the-ocean-of-pluto/

Climatologist: Human Impact On Sea Level Rise Is Fairly Small

https://principia-scientific.org/climatologist-human-impact-on-sea-level-rise-is-fairly-small/

Sweeping gene survey reveals new facets of evolution


https://phys.org/news/2018-05-gene-survey-reveals-facets-evolution.html