AvatarAlex MihaiFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo“Unpaywall” Is New Tool For Accessing Research Papers For Freeedublogs.orgAs anyone who has tried to pursue even a little bit of academic research can attest, publishers charge an arm-and-a-leg to access studies if you are …
AvatarAlex MihaiAvatarAvatarThis is How You Fold a Record-Breaking Paper Airplaneverified_publisherGizmodo - George DvorskyIn 2012, designer John Collins constructed a paper airplane that flew an astonishing 226 feet, establishing a distance record that still stands. A …
AvatarAlex MihaiAvatarAvatarAn app update turns this smart pen into a 3D scannerverified_publisherEngadget - Tom ReganThe "smart measuring device" just got a whole lot smarter. A smartpen that could already digitally measure pretty much anything will soon also be able to scan objects in 3D. Developed by Instrumments, a company made up of former Misfit creators, the impressive 01 pen will be getting a new app, …
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AvatarAlex MihaiAvatarAvatarFighting ISIS With an Algorithm, Physicists Try to Predict Attacks (Published 2016)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Pam BelluckAfter Orlando and San Bernardino and Paris, there is new urgency to understand the signs that can precede acts of terrorism. And with the Islamic State’s prolific use of social media, terrorism experts and government agencies continually search for clues in posts and Twitter messages that appear to …
AvatarAlex MihaiAvatarAvatarSimple brain hack from Harvard can stop you forgetting important tasksThe Telegraph - Sarah Knapton,Remembering to turn the gas off, or water the plants before a weekend away, can prove an impossible feat when the mind is churning with other tasks. But Harvard University has uncovered a simple ‘brain hack’ to bring back those forgotten to-do lists - the mental equivalent of tying a piece of string …
AvatarAlex MihaiAvatarAvatarMegacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structuresverified_publisherQuartz - Parag KhannaCities are mankind’s most enduring and stable mode of social organization, outlasting all empires and nations over which they have presided. Today cities have become the world’s dominant demographic and economic clusters. As the sociologist Christopher Chase-Dunn has pointed out, it is not …
AvatarAlex MihaiAvatarAvatarCan We Grasp Reality?verified_publisherNPR - Marcelo GleiserWe may believe that we know what's going on around us. After all, we can see, hear, touch, smell and taste what's around. Our senses are like antennas, grabbing information about our surroundings and bringing this information into our brains. The brain is this amazing organ capable of synthesizing …
AvatarAlex MihaiAvatarAvatarDalai Lama: Religion Without Quantum Physics Is an Incomplete Picture of Realityverified_publisherVICE - Daniel OberhausHis Holiness on emptiness and entanglement. Ever since Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543 to outline his heliocentric cosmology and thereby kick start modern scientific inquiry, an uneasy truce has existed between science and religion. Although Copernicus wasn't …
AvatarAlex MihaiAvatarAvatarStrange star has serious scientists talking about an alien megastructureChicago Tribune - By Sarah Kaplan"It was kind of unbelievable that it was real data," said Yale University astronomer Tabetha Boyajian. "We were scratching our heads. For any idea that came up there was always something that would argue against it." She was talking to the New Scientist about KIC 8462852, a distant star with a very …
AvatarAlex MihaiAvatarAvatarTrying To Change, Or Changing The Subject? How Feedback Gets Derailedverified_publisherNPR - Maggie Penman , Shankar VedantamPour yourself a cup of tea, turn your (right) ear toward your speakers and take a listen to the very first episode of the Hidden Brain podcast. We're talking a lot about feedback. First, we'll hear from author Sheila Heen about a common communication problem that pops up in many relationships. Then, …
AvatarAlex MihaiFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoInterview: Neil Jacobstein Discusses Future of Jobs, Universal Basic Income and the Ethical Dangers of AIsingularityhub.com - Tim BornyAs part of Singularity Hub’s Future of Work series, I had a chance to sit down with Neil Jacobstein, the co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence and …