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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