2019/08/30

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/08/30


⌁ Weekly Outage and Initial Catch Up: "Every Tuesday SETI@home begins a five hour data distribution outage for database and systems maintenance. The upload/download servers will be offline during this time. Afterwards you may experience connectivity issues for several more hours as the servers catch up with demand." https://setiathome.berkeley.edu

⌁ To alleviate the load on the SETI@home servers during Ttuesday's maintenance outages and to give regular users the chance to replenish their work unit caches, the operators of high throughput hosts can set BOINC to temporarily stop polling data servers on this specific day. https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84048&postid=1986061

SETI.Germany congratulates the winners of the 8th SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/winners/2019

[Good read] Mr. Kevvy explains why he takes part to the SETI@home project, competes in the Wow! Events & why "cheating" is acceptable https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84374&postid=2009133#2009133

Dan Werthimer wins the 2019 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84579#2009250 http://wonderfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/SaganPrize2019-release.pdf http://wonderfest.org/sagan-prize/ Werthimer is the Chief Scientist at the Berkeley SETI Research Center (BSRC). BSRC conducts experiments searching for electromagnetic signatures of hypothetical intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations. Affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley, BSRC may be best known for its SETI@home volunteer computing software and for its10-year, $100-million Breaththrough Listen project.

Dr. Richard Lawn has posted another interesting article to "SETI Perspectives", titled What to expect from ET? https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84590&postid=2009519#2009519

In Search of ET, Home Computers Handle 200TB Data | India News https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fteles-relay.com%2F2019%2F08%2F26%2Finde-a-la-recherche-det-les-ordinateurs-domestiques-traitent-des-donnees-de-200-to-inde-nouvelles%2F&sandbox=1 from original article in French https://teles-relay.com/2019/08/26/inde-a-la-recherche-det-les-ordinateurs-domestiques-traitent-des-donnees-de-200-to-inde-nouvelles/

Planets Bursting With Alien Life Might Exist Beyond the Solar System, Scientists Claim: 'We Need to Start Looking' https://www.newsweek.com/planets-alien-life-solar-system-scientists-1455729

Looking for Life at the Bottom of the Ocean - InVADER Mission - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLxnZ9qswCg&feature=em-uploademail

Does the massive metallic core of a primordial impactor lie buried under the South Pole-Aitken basin on the lunar farside? https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/huge-mass-found-under-largest-moon-impact/

New research shows that a planetoid impact could have made our Moon asymmetric. https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/long-ago-collision-explain-two-faced-moon/

[Scientific American] Faced with a Data Deluge, Astronomers Turn to Automation http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/AkWUe24Lgf8/ 2019-08-21T15:30:00

Exploring The Icy Moons of Jupiter. NASA's Europa Clipper and ESA's JUICE - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAW2uPPS2A4

'Surprising' study finds some planets may be better suited to life than Earth | CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/surprising-study-finds-some-planets-may-be-better-suited-to-life-than-earth-1.4565510

Earth is the only place in the universe where we know life exists. But with billions of other star systems out there, it might not be the best place for life. http://astronomy.com/news/2019/08/life-on-alien-worlds-could-be-more-diverse-than-on-earth

SETI Institute in the news August 15 - August 21, 2019 | Clues in the Dunes of Mars - The Thirty Meter Telescope Dispute - Imagining Alien Lifeforms https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-august-15-august-21-2019

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), successor to the Hubble observatory, comes together - setting the stage to a launch to orbit sometime in 2021 - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49504866

Planets Bursting With Alien Life Might Exist Beyond the Solar System, Scientists Claim: 'We Need to Start Looking' https://www.newsweek.com/planets-alien-life-solar-system-scientists-1455729

Upwelling Oceans: Modeling Exoplanet Habitability https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/08/27/upwelling-oceans-modeling-exoplanet-habitability/


There Could be Planets Out There Which are Even More Habitable than Earth - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/143229/there-could-be-planets-out-there-which-are-even-more-habitable-than-earth/

Can Mars Be Made Habitable in Our Lifetime? - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/can-mars-be-made-habitable-in-our-lifetime/

Searching for the Edge of Habitability – Many Worlds https://manyworlds.space/2019/08/21/searching-for-the-edge-of-habitability/


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Asteroid 2006 QV89 Will Not Hit Earth This Year - SETI Institute researchers Michael Busch and Franck Marchis talk about asteroids that come very close to the Earth -YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAzjasaPw7k

5 Realities Space Advocates Must Face https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2019/08/26/5-realities-space-advocates-must-face/?ss=cio-network#62a74a952269

Saturn, Not Earth Or Jupiter, Has The Largest Storms In Our Solar System https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/saturn-not-earth-or-jupiter-has-the-largest-storms-in-our-solar-system-a1bb5a362d0f

Simulation of eight million ‘mock universes’ sheds light on galaxy evolution – Physics World https://physicsworld.com/a/simulation-of-eight-million-mock-universes-sheds-light-on-galaxy-evolution/

Bad Astronomy | Earth’s last magnetic pole flip took 22,000 years to complete https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/earths-last-magnetic-pole-flip-took-22000-years-to-complete

Let's Talk Asteroid Apophis, Planetary Defense and Elon Musk | Space https://www.space.com/elon-musk-asteroid-apophis-and-planetary-defense.html

Astronomers Find A ‘Cloaked’ Black Hole 500 Million Years Before Any Other https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/astronomers-find-a-cloaked-black-hole-500-million-years-before-any-other-4be7ffb5e42f

Astronomy Faces A Field-Defining Choice In Choosing The Next Steps For The TMT https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/astronomy-faces-a-field-defining-choice-in-choosing-the-next-steps-for-the-tmt-e012fa20e9cd
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How the brain finds order amidst chaos https://neurosciencenews.com/cortical-neurons-order-chaos-14771/

[BBC - Science & Environment] Fake news is 'reinforced by false memories' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49435387 2019-08-22T13:07:22

Carbon nanotubes built this bizarre ultrablack material, vanta black - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzW2Xqw7k6A

[Scientific American] Researchers Model Online Hate Networks In Effort to Battle Them http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/dlqR4-bbqso/ 2019-08-21T19:15:00

[Ars Technica - Science] Vaping-linked lung disease cases jump from 94 to 153 in 5 days, CDC says https://arstechnica.com/?p=1556177 2019-08-22T15:36:09

BBC: Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. How bad are they? -> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49433767

Nobel Prize: Blessing or Curse? | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/event/nobel-prize-blessing-or-curse

Skeptic Check: Brain Gain | Separating pseudo from science in cognitive enhancement.| SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/podcast/skeptic-check-brain-gain

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2019/08/22

SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/08/22

SSLOI 2019/08/22 https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com or https://preview.tinyurl.com/SSLOI | RSS Feeds : https://setiathomeirclinks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default or http://feeds.feedburner.com/SETIathomeScienceIRClinks
 

Join SETI@home, a scientific distributed computing project using the unused CPU cycles of web-connected computers and Android devices such as yours in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : https://setiathome.berkeley.edu


#distributed If you contribute cycles to project World Community Grid, make sure your account's email adress is up to date before Aug. 28th : "We're Switching to Email-Based Login" https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=602

Ongoing: 8th SETI@home Wow! Event https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home/en (ends Aug. 25 2019, 16: UTC)

#setiathome #humor #video 8th SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 : This time we find ET ! https://youtu.be/nYrUstdhsCo (c) SETI.Germany https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home/en

#SETI@home: The Safer, Saner Alternative to "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Area_51,_They_Can%27t_Stop_All_of_Us

#seti@home #tools Statistics for BOINC project for specified hosts http://stateson.net/HostProjectStats/ https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=82901&postid=2006879

#radioastronomy National Science Foundation Awards Arecibo Observatory $12.3 Million Grant | University of Central Florida News https://www.ucf.edu/news/national-science-foundation-awards-arecibo-observatory-12-3-million-grant/

#exoplanets James Webb Space Telescope could begin learning about TRAPPIST-1 atmospheres in a single year, study indicates https://phys.org/news/2019-08-james-webb-space-telescope-trappist-.html

#exoplanets How many Earth-like planets are around sun-like stars? https://phys.org/news/2019-08-earth-like-planets-sun-like-stars.html

#seti Nikolai Kardashev 1932 – 2019 | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/nikolai-kardashev-1932-2019

#Seti : les civilisations extraterrestres de Nikolaï Kardashev sont orphelines, le radioastronome russe est mort https://www.futura-sciences.com/sciences/actualites/seti-institute-seti-civilisations-extraterrestres-nikolai-kardashev-sont-orphelines-radioastronome-russe-mort-77117/

#SETI Institute in the news August 8 - August 14, 2019 | SETI Institute - STEM Education for Girl Scouts: Reaching for the Stars - Disruption and Vision in Technology - Bishun Khare’s Crater on Pluto - Franck Marchis Bringing the Sky Down to Earth on 2SER https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-august-8-august-14-2019

#SETI Institute in the news August 1 - August 7, 2019 | SETI Institute - Fermi Problems - Taking a Peek at our Closest Neighboring Star System - UFO Government Secrets? SETI Institute CEO Weighs In - New Project, 'InVADER,' Will Test Technology for Ocean World Exploration https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-august-1-august-7-2019

#seti The Kardashev Scale and Beyond - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6RaWa7iM-I

#exoplanets "Alien Glow" --May Indicate Hidden Biospheres on Exoplanets | The Daily Galaxy https://dailygalaxy.com/2019/08/alien-glow-may-indicate-hidden-biospheres-on-exoplanets/

#exobiology Could Alien Life Evolve Similarly to Earth on Other Planets? The chances that we might discover analogs to Homo Sapiens are small, but it may be likely that we find recognizable interstellar cousins… https://medium.com/predict/could-alien-life-evolve-similarly-to-earth-on-other-planets-9b62b39f314a

#space Joining SpaceX and Orbital ATK, Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser spaceplane is to ride the Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2021 to ship cargo and experiments to the ISS - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49352720

#radioastronomy https://public.nrao.edu/news/jodie-foster-narrates-new-vla-visitor-film/ https://vimeo.com/70554007

#radioastronomy Into Deepest Space: The Story of ALMA https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/into-deepest-space/

#gaming #seti #video Signal Simulator Storm Area 51 weapon tests - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5SXprPNgqc https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxy_qdfdtfe0iyVMKdRB86g

#computing CPU/GPU UserBenchmarks - 1182 Processors Compared https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/

#radioastronomy Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals From Deep Space https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-have-bagged-a-jaw-dropping-haul-of-eight-new-repeating-fast-radio-bursts

#exoplanets Europa Clipper's Mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moon Confirmed - Europa, an icy ocean world in our solar system, could tell us more about the potential for life on other worlds | NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/europa-clippers-mission-to-jupiter-s-icy-moon-confirmed

#exoplanets NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface | NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-gets-a-rare-look-at-a-rocky-exoplanets-surface

#space Recent Asteroid Flybys - Unusual, But Expected | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/recent-asteroid-flybys-unusual-expected NEO Earth Close Approaches https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/

#moon [BBC - Science & Environment] Chandrayaan-2: India spacecraft begins orbiting Moon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-49404019 2019-08-20T10:41:18

#environment [BBC - Science & Environment] When an ethical vegan met a sheep farmer... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49399478 2019-08-19T23:01:33

#exobiology [BBC - Science & Environment] Nasa confirms ocean moon mission https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49408495 2019-08-20T11:50:55

#space [Ars Technica - Science] The ambitious Europa Clipper has cleared an important step toward flight https://arstechnica.com/?p=1554535 2019-08-20T13:29:24


#space The Power Source for a Mars Outpost Could Be Ready in 3 Years https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a28679934/mars-outpost-power-source/

#mars Can Martian soil support plant life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jXEZFuw38

#climate There’s No Free Lunch With Climate Change https://onezero.medium.com/theres-no-free-lunch-with-climate-change-4b9c1e095eaa

#astronomy This Is How We Know There Are Two Trillion Galaxies In The Universe - Hubble, even at its best, only reveals perhaps 10% of what’s out there. Here’s how we get the rest. https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-how-we-know-there-are-two-trillion-galaxies-in-the-universe-15fc0fea950b

#interviews #science Joe Rogan Experience #1233 - Brian Cox - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wieRZoJSVtw

#computing AI used to test evolution's oldest mathematical model https://phys.org/news/2019-08-ai-evolution-oldest-mathematical.html

#physics World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Experiment Clears Milestone: The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the world’s first commercial-scale fusion reactor project, is on track to officially launch operations at the end of 2025. After First Plasma, it will take another 10 years until it reaches full deuterium-tritium operations. - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-experiment-clears-milestone/

#space #history #video Failure Is Not An Option A Flight Control History of NASA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f51Jzm7M4w
Beyond the Moon: Failure is Not an Option Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSiOwBx6gLQ

#radioastronomy Milky Way's black hole just flared, growing 75 times as bright for a few hours https://phys.org/news/2019-08-milky-black-hole-flared-bright.html

#physics NASA selects proposals to further study the fundamental nature of space https://phys.org/news/2019-08-nasa-fundamental-nature-space.html

#physics Physicists design an experiment to pin down the origin of the elements https://phys.org/news/2019-08-physicists-pin-elements.html

#moon NASA Moon landing: Space agency's incredible SLS rocket is ’90 percent complete’ | Science | News | Express.co.uk https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1166672/nasa-moon-landing-space-launch-system-sls-rocket-90-percent-complete-space-news

#cosmology The Epic Scale of Spacetime - Predict - Medium https://medium.com/predict/the-epic-scale-of-spacetime-b769e7e17e28

#evolution Did Exploding Stars Force Humans to Walk Upright? - Robert Roy Britt - Medium https://medium.com/@robertroybritt/did-exploding-stars-force-humans-to-walk-upright-4677050332d9

#asteroids We Were Not Almost Killed by an Asteroid This Week - Popular Science - Medium https://medium.com/popular-science/we-were-not-almost-killed-by-an-asteroid-this-week-1705cd2f074

#moon Why Doesn’t Anyone Live on the Moon Yet? - Popular Science - Medium https://medium.com/popular-science/why-doesnt-anyone-live-on-the-moon-yet-1628168a0329

#internet #security Facebook Is Eroding Trust in Two-Factor Authentication https://onezero.medium.com/facebook-is-eroding-trust-in-two-factor-authentication-306163dacd6a

#security The Night My Doorbell Camera Captured a Shooting - OneZero https://onezero.medium.com/the-night-my-doorbell-camera-captured-a-shooting-d8255f5c4e5

#climate Scientists Have Been Underestimating the Pace of Climate Change - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/

#astrobiology Scientists Mull the Astrobiological Implications of an Airless Alien Planet - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-mull-the-astrobiological-implications-of-an-airless-alien-planet/

#radioastronomy Astronomers Spy a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-spy-a-black-hole-devouring-a-neutron-star/

#climate When Will All the Ice in the Arctic Be Gone? - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-will-all-the-ice-in-the-arctic-be-gone/

#security Your Employer May Be Spying on You--and Wasting Its Time - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-employer-may-be-spying-on-you-and-wasting-its-time/

#radioastronomy Earth Could Be a Lens for a Revolutionary Space Telescope - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-could-be-a-lens-for-a-revolutionary-space-telescope/

#programming Use Cython to get more than 30X speedup on your Python code https://towardsdatascience.com/use-cython-to-get-more-than-30x-speedup-on-your-python-code-f6cb337919b6

#environment Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49295051

#climate #video David Attenborough: 'Climate Change - Britain Under Threat' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq1oFhTINXE Jefferdaughter's comment "What you can do" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq1oFhTINXE&lc=UggJ53HhiFU2O3gCoAEC (text AT https://pastebin.com/W3vbV9Rq)

#climate NOAA Just Confirmed July 2019 Was The Hottest Month On Record https://www.iflscience.com/environment/noaa-just-confirmed-july-2019-was-the-hottest-month-on-record/

#geology 'Jurassic world' discovered under Australia https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/jurassic-world-discovered-under-australia/ar-AAFNoZp

#distributed If you're a contributor to World Community Grid make sure your account's email adress is up to date before the 28th : "We're Switching to Email-Based Login" https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=602


#bigdata The most powerful idea in data science - A quick fix for separating red herrings from useful patterns https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-powerful-idea-in-data-science-78b9cd451e72

#climate #science Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study https://phys.org/news/2019-08-climate-deniers-media-scientists.html

#geology Making sense of a '7.1' earthquake https://phys.org/news/2019-08-earthquake.html

#ai Artificial intelligence to predict protein structure https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-artificial-intelligence-protein.html

#ai More chat, less duh, on the way thanks to Nvidia AI leaps with BERT https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-chat-duh-nvidia-ai-bert.html

#robotics Playing god: Japan temple puts faith in robot priest https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-god-japan-temple-faith-robot.html

#privacy Researchers find a new way to snoop with smartphones. But should you be worried? https://techxplore.com/news/2019-08-snoop-smartphones.html

#anthropology Neanderthals also got 'surfer's ear,' suggesting they liked to fish https://phys.org/news/2019-08-neanderthals-commonly-swimmer-ear.html

#robotics [Scientific American] An Innovative Robotic Exosuit Boosts Both Walking and Running http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/T5f0yjAh0pI/ 2019-08-16T17:00:00

#science #pictures [Scientific American] A Flash on Jupiter, the Death of Mitochondria and the World under Your Skin: The Week's Best Science GIFs http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/86skgUEzx0k/ 2019-08-16T14:00:00

#climate How to save a sinking nation http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190813-how-to-save-a-sinking-island-nation

#ethology The real reason sharks attack humans http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190808-why-do-sharks-attack-humans

#mind The brain that moves objects http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190814-will-we-ever-control-the-world-with-our-minds

#climate The animals that will survive climate change http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190730-the-animals-that-will-survive-climate-change

#ai Sci-Fi From the Future (repeat) Are you ready to defer all your personal decision-making to machines? Polls show that most Americans are uneasy about the unchecked growth of artificial intelligence. The possible misuse of genetic engineering also makes us anxious. We all have a stake in the responsible development of science and technology, but fortunately, science fiction films can help. http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/sci-fi-future

#health Candida auris: The new superbug on the block - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49170866

#cats Scientists Have Created A Vaccine For Cats To Stop You Being Allergic To Your Cat https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-have-created-a-vaccine-to-stop-you-being-allergic-to-your-cat-/

#sociology #media How online extremists are shaping the minds of white teens https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49363958

#environment Puerto Rico's Hurricane Maria provides ethnic studies lesson https://phys.org/news/2019-08-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-ethnic.html https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/646997771/fact-check-puerto-rico-was-an-incredible-unsung-success https://blogs.uoregon.edu/theuopuertoricoproject/

#space #music Italian Astronaut Becomes First DJ To Play A Set in Space https://www.iflscience.com/space/italian-astronaut-becomes-first-dj-play-set-space/

#aliens Prepare to storm Area 51 and see them aliens - Facebook briefly removes Area 51 event 'by accident' https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49263255 Half a million people signed up to storm Area 51. What happens if they actually show? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/07/13/half-million-people-signed-up-storm-area-what-happens-if-they-actually-show-up/ He got 2 million people to say they’d storm Area 51. Now he’s planning an alien festival https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/12/he-got-million-people-say-theyd-storm-area-now-hes-planning-an-alien-festival/

#aliens The Only Band Booked to Play the “Storm Area 51” Festival Explains Why It Might Believe in Aliens https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/storm-area-51-alienstock-festival-interview-wily-savage.html
https://www.stormarea51.us/ https://alienstockfestival.com/

#aliens “Let’s See Them Aliens”: The Comic Futility of #StormArea51  - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/pop-culture/2019/7/17/20697053/storm-area-51-explained

#technology Devices and Appliances You Could Theoretically Tweet From, Ranked https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/twitter-electronics-ranked-list-which-is-best.html

#politics #media Twitter bans advertising from state-controlled news outlets and suspends 936 accounts - The change comes after 'Xinhua' sponsored ads attacking Hong Kong protestors. https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/19/twitter-advertising-policy-ban-state-sponsored-media/

#security Massive biometric security flaw exposed more than one million fingerprints - The system is used by banks, police and defence companies. https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/14/biometric-security-flaw-fingerprints/

#education Students are still using tech to cheat on exams, but things are getting more advanced https://phys.org/news/2019-08-students-tech-exams-advanced.html

#The curious history of the rise and fall of twin beds https://phys.org/news/2019-08-curious-history-fall-twin-beds.html

#internet #culture How the Internet Changed Language—for the Better - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2019/8/1/20749580/because-internet-gretchen-mcculloch

#media ‘Matrix 4’: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss & Lana Wachowski to Return – Variety https://variety.com/2019/film/news/matrix-4-keanu-reeves-carrie-anne-moss-lana-wachowski-1203307955/

"If a man is to shed the light of the sun
upon other men,
he must first of all have it within himself."
~Romain Rolland  


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SETI@home & Science Links on IRC 2019/08/11

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2019 SETI.Germany Wow! anniversary event: 15-29 August - Posted: 22 Jul 2019, 23:13:46 UTC - Every year SETI.Germany organizes an event in honor of the anniversary of the Wow! signal. This year's event (the 42nd anniversary) takes place from 15 to 29 August. Further information can be found here: https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home/en

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84429&postid=2003886


8th SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 - Update 2019.08.11
https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/home/en
372 Participants https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/users/2019
73 Teams https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/teams/2019
32 Countries https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/stats/countries/2019
Register at https://www.seti-germany.de/Wow/register/en
Test / Fine tuning : July 15 - Aug.15 16:00 UTC
Event / Competition : August 15, 16:00 UTC - August 29, 16:00 UTC
Facebook event : https://www.facebook.com/events/440620326793598

Regarding *gasp* "Cheating'' at - and bonkering for - the SETI@home Wow! Event 2019 :
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84374&postid=2003842 and
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84374&postid=2003885

[NSF - Discoveries] What motivates people to join -- and stick with -- citizen science projects?
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=298936&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1

#strange #setiathome THERE BE SCREAMERS (Area 51 Raid): "They can't stop all of us" https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84395

#seti SETI Institute in the news July 4 - July 10, 2019 https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-july-4-july-10-2019 Applying AI to Mysterious Deep Space
Signals
- Our Moon: Commercial Interests and Scientific Safeguards - Funding Space Exploration, Without a Space Race


#BOINC volunteers, here's an invite to join the @discordapp of @team_csf link: https://discord.gg/XtYGz9v

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#seti Breakthrough Listen's new search for alien lasers - For the last few decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has focused on detecting radio signals. But a new collaboration between Breakthrough Listen and VERITAS will focus on looking for laser-like flashes of light. | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/breakthrough-listen-seti-optical-beacons-technosignatures

#radioastron National Science Foundation sides with Green Bank Observatory - WV
MetroNews http://wvmetronews.com/2019/07/30/national-science-foundation-sides-with-green-bank-observatory/

#seti SETI Institute in the news July 11 - July 17, 2019 https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-july-11-july-17-2019 Girl Scouts Announces New Space Science Badges - Saturn s Rings Teach Us About How the Solar System Formed - Internet Memes and Area 51 and UFO s, Oh My! -

#seti Jul 30, 2019 - SETI Institute in the news July 18 - July 24, 2019 https://www.seti.org/seti-institute-news-july-18-july-24-2019 Forbes Asks: Can We Decode an Extraterrestrial Message? - How the Moon Landing Changed Our View of Extraterrestrials - Jill Tarter Fields Twitter s Most Pressing Alien Questions - VERITAS and Breakthrough Listen Announce New Search for Optical Signals - Jason Wright on the Drake Award and Viral Joke to See Them Aliens

#exoplanets [Scientific American] The Hunt Is on for Alpha Centauri's Planets http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/tWAiieBvTJA/
2019-08-05T10:45:00

#society Neil deGrasse Tyson is facing backlash after tweeting about shooting deaths - CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/us/neil-degrasse-tyson-gun-death-tweets-trnd/index.html

Katie Mack @AstroKatie : "Here's to hoping we humans someday learn to share enough of our dreams that no one has to live out our nightmares"

#music Home - NASA's Third Rock Radio | Stream New Rock | Indie Rock | Alternative Rock https://thirdrockradio.net


#citizenscience Volunteers Needed @MDRS - The Mars Society https://www.marssociety.org/news/2019/08/07/volunteers-needed-mdrs/

#radioastronomy Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: Dead Planets Can Broadcast for Up to a Billion Years https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/08/dead-planets-can-broadcast-for-up-to.html

#radioastronomy NASA's new lightweight X-ray mirrors ready for try-outs in space
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nasa-lightweight-x-ray-mirrors-ready.html

#psychology Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-speaking-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-makes-you-wiser

#asteroids A Meteor Just Exploded On Jupiter, And A Photographer Actually Caught It On Video
https://www.sciencealert.com/rare-and-breathtaking-video-of-a-meteor-exploding-on-jupiter

#technology These Guys Built a Flying Saucer That Actually Flies Pretty Well https://futurism.com/the-byte/flying-saucer-flies-pretty-well

#food Vegan food’s sustainability claims need to give the full picture - CSIROscope
https://blog.csiro.au/vegan-foods-sustainability-claims-need-to-give-the-full-picture/

#seti Are we alone in the Cosmos? Biological Time, the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox -
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhDUB28BtdA

#marsHow We Could Make Mars Habitable, One Patch of Ground at a Time |
Space https://www.space.com/make-mars-habitable-with-silica-aerogel.html

#exobiology Earth's Changing Colors Could Help Us Find Alien Life |
Space https://www.space.com/alien-life-search-expanded-photosynthesis-signatures.html

#spacehistory Never-Before-Seen NASA Video Shows Scientists Test Apollo 11 Moon Rocks for Life in 1969 | Space https://www.space.com/apollo-11-moon-rocks-life-signs-test-video.html

#exobiology Searching For The Red Edge. How The Earth's Forests Are Telling The Aliens Where We Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovcD2uL5Cc

#exoplanets Four thousand exo-planets discovered (and counting). :
SFcrowsnest https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/four-thousand-exo-planets-discovered-and-counting/

#physics Physicists solve 2,000-year-old optical problem https://phys.org/news/2019-08-physicists-year-old-optical-problem.html

#exoplanets NASA's Planet-Hunting TESS Telescope Finds 21 New Worlds in 1st Year | Space
https://www.space.com/tess-first-year-hunting-alien-planets.html

#seti Apollo 11 Moon Landing Showed That Aliens Might Be More Than Science Fiction |
Space https://www.space.com/moon-brought-aliens-to-earth.html

#seti 10 SETI Messages That We May Not Want to Receive - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKVpHTMj3XM

#exobiology 10 Indicators that Mars Might Harbor Life - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqf9JloNrts

#space First Flight on Another Planet! The Mars Helicopter aims to make the first powered flight on another planet when it takes off on Mars as part of  the Mars 2020 mission. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM&feature=youtu.be

#seti Will Aliens Want to Eat Us? Our ideas of evil aliens are probably wrong.- Predict - Medium
https://medium.com/predict/will-aliens-want-to-eat-us-de7226ab53d

#space #technology To Save the Internet, Silicon Valley is Sending it to Space - The Crux
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2019/07/30/to-save-the-internet-silicon-valley-is-sending-it-to-space/#.XVB_Xkd7kd4

#space #technology Building Interplanetary Internet with 'Disruption Tolerant Networking' - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=TeJSQ4ZWk78

#asteroids Something Just Smacked Jupiter and Here's the Photo to Prove It | Space
https://www.space.com/jupiter-impact-flash-photo-august-2019.html

#events Perseid Meteor Shower 2019: When, Where & How to See It | Space https://www.space.com/32868-perseid-meteor-shower-guide.html

#seti Mysterious, Ancient Radio Signals - FRBs - Keep Pelting Earth. Astronomers Designed an AI to Hunt Them Down. | Space
https://www.space.com/fast-radio-bursts-australia-artificial-intelligence.html
 
#seti New SETI Project InVADER Will Practice Looking for Alien Life Near Deep-Sea Vents on Earth - D-brief
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/08/09/new-seti-project-will-practice-looking-for-alien-life-near-deep-sea-vents-on-earth/#.XVB9E0d7kd4

#history Can the man who found the Titanic find Amelia Earhart? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49231625

#biocontamination Tardigrades Were Already on the Moon - Scientific American Blog Network
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/tardigrades-were-already-on-the-moon/

#politics Congress on verge of creating Space Force after years of delays : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/11/743612373/with-congressional-blessing-space-force-is-closer-to-launch?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=space

#space #history #computing The Story of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Part 3 - Universe Today
https://www.universetoday.com/143113/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-3/
https://www.universetoday.com/142897/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-1/
https://www.universetoday.com/143102/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-2/

#space Nasa Joins Forces with SpaceX To Conquer Mars And Moon | David Reneke | Space and Astronomy News
https://www.davidreneke.com/nasa-joins-forces-with-spacex-to-conquer-mars-and-moon/

#space Air Force cubesat successfully deployed from Atlas 5 upper stage - Astronaut
https://astronaut.com/air-force-cubesat-successfully-deployed-from-atlas-5-upper-stage/

#astrophysics Dark Matter May Have Existed Before the Big Bang, New Math Suggests | Space
https://www.space.com/dark-matter-before-big-bang.html

#astrophysics Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Mystery Explained (Infographic) | Space
https://www.space.com/20502-dark-matter-universe-mystery-infographic.html

#books Book Review: Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft |National Space Society
https://space.nss.org/book-review-ambassadors-from-earth/

#politics #humor Bernie Sanders Pledges to Release Any Information About Aliens If He's Elected in 2020: Report | Space
https://www.space.com/bernie-sanders-would-reveal-ufo-information-2020-election.html

#exoplanets 4000 Exoplanets - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiFD_LBx2nM https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190710.html

#astrobiology Life may be common in the Milky Way, thanks to comet swapping - And Earth may be one of the primary donor worlds
https://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/life-may-be-common-in-the-milky-way-thanks-to-comet-swapping/

#radioastronomy [NPR - Science] Chile And Telescopes Are A Match Made In Heaven
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/02/747260660/chile-and-telescopes-are-a-match-made-in-heaven

#exoplanets NASA's TESS mission completes first year of survey, turns to northern
sky https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nasa-tess-mission-year-survey.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLyFFsY7ZY

#carlsagan Carl Sagan : A Personal Voyage - Tribute by Brian Cox (2009) https://archive.org/details/CarlSaganAPersonalVoyage Topics : BBC Radio, Archive on Four, Carl Sagan, documentary, biography, science, astronomy - Physicist and broadcaster Brian Cox presents a tribute to his science hero,
the American astronomer Carl Sagan, the man who many people describe as the greatest populariser of science of all time. His landmark television series Cosmos was seen by more than 60 million people worldwide and inspired a generation of young scientists to regard the universe with wonder and
awe. Release date: 11 April 2009 - 1 hour audio, BBC RADIO 4

 #exoplanets NASA's TESS mission finds 'missing link' planets https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nasa-tess-mission-link-planets.html

#moon Study shows that the Moon is older than previously believed -A new study spearheaded by Earth scientists at the University of Cologne's
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy has constrained the age of the Moon to approximately 50 million years after the formation of the solar system.
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-moon-older-previously-believed.html

#space The Orion Spacecraft for NASA's 2020 Trip Around the Moon Is Ready to Go (Photo) | Space
https://www.space.com/orion-capsule-artemis-1-finished-photo.html

#asteroids An asteroid buzzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time - Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University -
July 25, 2019 2.41am EDT http://theconversation.com/an-asteroid-just-buzzed-past-earth-and-we-barely-noticed-in-time-120972 "A 100-metre-wide
asteroid passed just 70,000km from Earth on Thursday, Australian time. It was discovered by the Brazilian SONEAR survey just days ago, and its
presence was announced mere hours before it zoomed past our planet. The lack of warning shows how quickly potentially dangerous asteroids can
sneak up on us."

#philosophy To imagine our own extinction is to be able to answer for it | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/to-imagine-our-own-extinction-is-to-be-able-to-answer-for-it

#psychology What happened when I made my students turn off their phones | Aeon Ideas
https://aeon.co/ideas/what-happened-when-i-made-my-students-turn-off-their-phones

#cosmology Tracer galaxies probe the cosmic background - The universe, perhaps surprisingly, is not comprised of galaxies randomly distributed
throughout space; that is, it is not very homogeneous. Instead, its galaxies are clustered into distinct structures, typically gigantic filaments separated by
vast voids the "large-scale structure (LSS)," an architecture whose discovery and mappings were pioneered by CfA astronomers about thirty years ago.
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-tracer-galaxies-probe-cosmic-background.html

#space Space mining kits blast off for tests in orbit - The groundbreaking study could aid efforts to establish manned settlements on distant worlds by
helping develop ways to source minerals essential for survival in space. https://phys.org/news/2019-07-space-kits-blast-orbit.html

#moon Scientist Explains How Moon Mining Would Work | WIRED - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix6BxLf1bew

#space Space junk: A recycling station could be cleaning up in Earth orbit by
2050 https://phys.org/news/2019-07-space-junk-recycling-station-earth.html

#space First free flight of SpaceX's Starhopper aborted after engine fire https://phys.org/news/2019-07-free-flight-spacex-starhopper-aborted.html

#sciencehistory Voyager 1 and 2 - 2019 UPDATE Narrated Documentary - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZIB8vauWSI

#space Sail Deployment: Reflections on LightSail 2 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/07/24/lightsail-2-sail-deployment/

#space Planetary Society Deploys LightSail 2 s Solar Sail. What Does The Future Hold For Solar Sails? -
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDYkxHQ7X78

#space Liftoff! India Launches Ambitious Mission to Land at the Moon's South Pole |
Space https://www.space.com/india-chandrayaan-2-moon-mission-launch-success.html

#anthropology Let's Stick Together - how social bonding evolved | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/podcast/lets-stick-together

#maths Math's Paths | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/podcast/maths-paths "If you bake, you can appreciate math s transformative properties.
Admiring the stackable potato chip is to admire a hyperbolic sheet. Find out why there s no need to fear math - you just need to think outside the
cuboid. Also, how nature s geometric shapes inspire the next generation of squishy robots and an argument for radically overhauling math class. The
end point of these common factors is acute show that s as fun as eating Pi."

#space World Joins NASA to Celebrate Apollo as the Agency Looks Forward |
NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/world-joins-nasa-in-celebrating-apollo-as-the-agency-looks-to-the-future

#moon #space Jul 10, 2019 28:48 When NASA s Apollo 11 mission sent the first astronauts to the moon 50 years ago, there were many things we didn t know. Like whether the moon s surface would turn out to be a field of quicksand, if space germs would infect the astronauts, or what exactly the moon was made of. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, we join forces with the National Air and Space Museum's podcast, AirSpace, to explore the mysteries of lunar science: what we didn't know then, and what we still don't know today. Listen to AirSpace, stories that defy gravity: https://airandspace.si.edu/learn/airspace-podcast

#moon NASA Releases Stunning Panoramas of Apollo Landing Sites |
NASA https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-releases-stunning-panoramas-of-apollo-landing-sites-for-50th-anniversary

#moon #space From the Moon to the Stars https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/07/22/from-the-moon-to-the-stars/

#astrophotography Astrophotography competition sees joint winners for prestigious David Malin Awards - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-20/david-malin-awards-astrophotography-competition-space/11322710 2019 CWAS "David Malin Awards" Shortlist https://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/astrofest/DMA/2019_shortlist/ Previous years https://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/astrofest/DMA/

#obituaries Chris Kraft: Key Apollo 11 director dies days after anniversary - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49082897

#society Hawaii telescope: The volcano that could help prove alien life exists - Desecrating sacred land or finding new frontiers? - BBC
News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49082156

#space Why is India sending humanoid robots into space? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48918280

#asteroids NASA tracked three large asteroids - 2019 OD, 2019 OE and 2015 HM10 - zipping by Wednesday,-- and one was closer than the Moon -
CNN 2019/07/24 https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/24/world/nasa-asteroid-flyby-moon-scn-trnd/index.html

#asteroids Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) https://fallingstar.com/home.php https://twitter.com/fallingstarIfA

#asteroids Pan-STARRS https://panstarrs.stsci.edu/ https://neo.ifa.hawaii.edu/statistics/ https://twitter.com/PanSTARRS2
https://twitter.com/PanSTARRS1

#moon New research shows that a planetoid impact could have made our Moon asymmetric.
https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/long-ago-collision-explain-two-faced-moon/

#space Dragonfly Drone Will Explore Saturn?s Biggest Moon. NASA has selected its next New Frontiers mission: Dragonfly, a rover-sized drone will
begin ?coptering around Titan in 2034.https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/were-going-to-titan-dragonfly/

#space Cool Quad Video of the Falcon Re-Entry. Two Sonic Booms!
https://www.universetoday.com/143026/check-out-this-super-cool-quad-video-of-the-falcon-re-entry-two-sonic-booms/

#moon Does the massive metallic core of a primordial impactor lie buried under the South Pole-Aitken basin on the lunar farside?
https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/huge-mass-found-under-largest-moon-impact/

#asteroids IAU Minor Planet Center https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/

#spacehistory 8 Days: To the Moon and Back | 8 Days: To the Moon and Back | PBS https://www.pbs.org/video/8-days-to-the-moon-and-back-bnqvna/

#cosmology Gaia starts mapping our Milky Way's bar | Space | EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/gaia-starts-mapping-our-milky-ways-bar


#robotics #space Meet a family of NASA space robots | Human World |
EarthSky https://earthsky.org/space/nasa-space-robots-lemur-ice-worm-robosimian

#moon #history Moon landing anniversary: One small step for man...a giant leap for space
robots http://theconversation.com/moon-landing-anniversary-one-small-step-for-man-a-giant-leap-for-space-robots-120553

#space #history That time my grandad saved Neil Armstrong's life - RN - ABC News (Australian BroadcastingCorporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-15/that-time-my-grandad-saved-neil-armstrongs-life/8022728

#cosmology CSIRO on Twitter: "Radio bursts are an astronomical "whodunnit," so we've channelled our inner Sherlock Holmes. Our researchers have pinpointed the precise location of a burst using our ASKAP radio telescope, bringing us closer to solving their mystery. @Science_Academy https://twitter.com/CSIROnews/status/1147294086870851586

#moon #technology Four surprising technological innovations that came out of the Apollo moon landings http://theconversation.com/four-surprising-technological-innovations-that-came-out-of-the-apollo-moon-landings-119605

#moon #computing #history Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon? http://theconversation.com/would-your-mobile-phone-be-powerful-enough-to-get-you-to-the-moon-115933

#ethics #science BBC - Future - Is it right to use Nazi research if it can save lives? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190723-the-ethics-of-using-nazi-science

#obituaries Rutger Hauer, star of Blade Runner, dies aged 75 | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/24/rutger-hauer-star-of-blade-runner-dies-aged-75 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNbJ45yyVcY https://media.giphy.com/media/NfssuO1V5K0kE/giphy.gif "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannh user Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

#society #science The volcano that could help prove alien life exists - Hawaii telescope: Desecrating sacred land or finding new frontiers? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49082156

#history #science [BBC - Science & Environment] Moon landing: How Jodrell Bank tracked Apollo 11 and a Russian probe https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-49001181 2019-07-19T23:54:07

#strange Seth Shostak - 5 reasons not to storm Area 51 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBsnfFL1JM8 "The last day of summer and maybe the last day of you" "Shostak's playing devil's advocate, highlighting problems and concerns, thus enabling better planning, logistics, and first aid. Good job, sir."

#space SpaceX s shiny new spaceship prototype Starhopper has flown for the first time | New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2211363-spacexs-shiny-new-spaceship-prototype-has-flown-for-the-first-time/

#asteroids Asteroid 2019 OK just missed Earth, surprising scientists - The Washington Post - https://bit.ly/2LFX0sV https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/26/it-snuck-up-us-city-killer-asteroid-just-missed-earth-scientists-almost-didnt-detect-it-time/

#health [Ars Technica - Science] Brain-eating amoeba kills again here s how it kills and how to avoid it https://arstechnica.com/?p=1542335 2019-07-26T18:25:35

#environment [Scientific American] Alarming Sonar Results Show Glaciers May Be Melting Faster Than We Expected http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/c2Dp7JhCIog/ 2019-07-26T16:32:00

#anthopology From the penalty box to the ballot box, our brains are wired for tribalism http://theconversation.com/from-the-penalty-box-to-the-ballot-box-our-brains-are-wired-for-tribalism-117089

#environment [Ars Technica - Science] Second European heatwave this summer also linked to climate change https://arstechnica.com/?p=1545801 2019-08-03T19:56:34

#environment [BBC - Science & Environment] What's causing the heatwave? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-49093455 2019-07-24T12:21:56

#biodiversity [NPR - Science] Sharks Have Few Places To Hide From Fishing, Study Shows https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/07/24/744605834/sharks-have-few-places-to-hide-from-fishing-study-shows 2019-07-24T13:00:55

#history [Ars Technica - Science] Archeologists confirm near-legendary tale of crusaders siege of Jerusalem https://arstechnica.com/?p=1540725 2019-07-24T21:20:22

#strange #events #weird Area 51 raid event 'to see them aliens' removed by Facebook - The event creator is planning a real-life festival to replace the tongue-in-cheek Area 51 raid. https://www.cnet.com/news/area-51-raid-event-to-see-them-aliens-removed-by-facebook-creator-organizing-festival/ (Best way ever to convince conspiracy theorists they are wrong, riiight...)

#technology #hoverboard French inventor successfully crosses the English Channel on a hoverboard (Video) - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/4/20753648/jet-powered-hoverboard-english-channel-crossing-franky-zapata-success

#technology #hoverboard #video Les images du vol de Francky Zapata au-dessus de la Manche - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI-DL3hJFZE

#people 90-year-old graduate from Bairnsdale says it's never too late to study - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-29/90-year-old-graduates-message-to-australians-youre-never-too-old/11353796

#climate [Ars Technica - Science] The only global climate event of last 2,000 years was ours https://arstechnica.com/?p=1541643 2019-07-25T17:22:04

#climate [Ars Technica - Science] New IPCC report shows land use is part of solution to climate change https://arstechnica.com/?p=1548483 2019-08-08T23:06:14

#cosmology Astronomy and Space News - Astro Watch: Astronomers Discover Vast Ancient Galaxies, Which Could Shed Light on Dark Matter https://www.astrowatch.net/2019/08/astronomers-discover-vast-ancient.html

#cosmology Dark Matter May Have Existed Before the Big Bang, New Math Suggests | Space https://www.space.com/dark-matter-before-big-bang.html

#strange Thousands Of Tardigrades Are Stranded On The Moon After A Failed Lunar Mission : NPR https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/749500826/thousands-of-tardigrades-are-stranded-on-the-moon-after-a-failed-lunar-mission

#strange Hordes of Earth's toughest creatures may now be living on Moon https://news.yahoo.com/hordes-earths-toughest-creatures-may-now-living-moon-005552957.html

#history Beyond the Apollo 50th Anniversary, with Poppy Northcutt - Out There http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2019/08/08/beyond-the-apollo-50th-anniversary/

#astrophysics Very Large Telescope releases new view of ‘Cosmic Seagull’ | https://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/very-large-telescope-releases-new-view-of-cosmic-seagull/

#asteroids Asteroid’s Close Approach Demonstrates Need for More Eyes in the Sky – Parabolic Arc http://www.parabolicarc.com/2019/08/08/asteroids-close-approach-demonstrates-need-for-more-eyes-in-the-sky/

#cosmology What came first, dark matter or the Big Bang? | https://www.spaceanswers.com/deep-space/what-came-first-dark-matter-or-the-big-bang/

#geology When Earth's magnetic field flips, it could take thousands of years | Astronomy.com http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/08/when-earths-magnetic-field-flips-it-could-take-thousands-of-years

#space A More Secure Space Weapons System Starts with Cyber - SpaceNews.com https://spacenews.com/a-more-secure-space-weapons-system-starts-with-cyber/

#women 8 New Sci-Fi Short Films About Intriguing Women and Space Travel https://io9.gizmodo.com/intriguing-female-characters-highlight-these-8-new-sci-1836894263

#astrophysics Maybe Dark Matter is Warm, Not Cold - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/143083/maybe-dark-matter-is-warm-not-cold/

#history What Was the Space Race? | Space https://www.space.com/space-race.html

#computing The Story of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Part 2 - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/143102/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-2/ https://www.universetoday.com/142897/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-1/

#astrophysics When Will the Sun Die? | Space https://www.space.com/14732-sun-burns-star-death.html

#radioastronomy ALMA finds previously unseen ancestors of elliptical galaxies – Astronomy Now https://astronomynow.com/2019/08/07/alma-finds-previously-unseen-ancestors-of-giant-elliptical-galaxies/

#radioastronomy Astronomers Search for Radio Signals From ‘Dead Planets’ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/08/07/astronomers-search-for-radio-signals-from-dead-planets/

#anthropology New study in Science: Why humans in Africa fled to the mountains during the last ice age https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/mh-nsi073019.php

#food CNN: Fake meat is the future. Here's why -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/fxi6t291bF8/plant-based-meat-explainer-orig.cnn-business

#climate #food CNN: Food will be scarce, expensive and less nutritious, climate report says -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/21Bjpg186u8/index.html

#food CNN: Photos: Real or fake: meat substitutes -> http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/GQwJi5hi76I/index.html

#pictures Atlas at Dawn - Astronomy Picture of the Day https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

#pictures #robotics #rovers #spaceexploration Curiosity at Teal Ridge https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190808.html

#pictures #cosmology APOD: 2019 August 6 - The Local Void in the Nearby Universe https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190806.html https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08329 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.08329.pdf

#exoplanets New Method May Help Scientists Study Exoplanets at the Edge of Chaos | Space https://www.space.com/exoplanets-edge-of-chaos-alien-worlds.html

#psychology You have more in common with a psychopath than you realise: Psychopaths force us to confront a paradox at the heart of ethics: the fact that I care about what happens to you is based on the fact I care about what happens to me. | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/you-have-more-in-common-with-a-psychopath-than-you-realise

#strange Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-speaking-to-yourself-in-the-third-person-makes-you-wiser

#cats Hail Félicette! French Space Cat Memorial Beginning to Take Shape | Space https://www.space.com/felicette-space-cat-memorial-design-photos.html

#woo Your horoscope isn't speaking directly to you. But here's why it may feel like it is - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-09/astrology-horoscopes-why-it-feels-like-theyre-talking-to-you/11374550

#space Martian Merlot? How a Red Wine Compound May Help Us Cope with Mars' Gravity | Space https://www.space.com/red-wine-compound-mars-astronauts.html

#astrophysics This Is Why Black Holes Must Spin At Almost The Speed Of Light https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/this-is-why-black-holes-must-spin-at-almost-the-speed-of-light-8aa0fd9794e

#space NASA's Parker Solar Probe Is Beaming Back Extra Data as it Buzzes the Sun | Space https://www.space.com/parker-solar-probe-extra-data-sun-flybys.html

#moon New Images from China's Chang'e 4 as Eighth Lunar Day Ends - Sky & Telescope https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/china-change-4-mission-images-eighth-lunar-day/

#physics [Scientific American] Watch Liquid-Based Magnet Droplets Twirl and Morph http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/9OSMSzkzJZw/ 2019-07-23T10:45:00

#science A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses https://gizmodo.com/a-mexican-physicist-solved-a-2-000-year-old-problem-tha-1837031984

#climate [NPR - Science] Researchers Are Trying To Find A Solution To Cut Concrete's Carbon Emissions https://www.npr.org/2019/08/08/749500858/researchers-are-trying-to-find-a-solution-to-cut-concretes-carbon-emissions

#science [Scientific American] The Brain in Images: Top Entries in the Art of Neuroscience http://rss.sciam.com/~r/ScientificAmerican-News/~3/siOP4AQHLSE/ 2019-07-29T13:00:00

#health [BBC - Science & Environment] Drug-resistant superbug spreading in Europe's hospitals https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49132425 2019-07-29T15:11:28

#anthropology #PAYWALL Is reality real? How evolution blinds us to the truth about the world | New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332410-300-is-reality-real-how-evolution-blinds-us-to-the-truth-about-the-world/

#aliens #strange The truth is out there - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-truth-is-out-there-1/?utm_term=.fb453fd3c7d6

#moon #history The last person to set foot on the moon - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-last-person-to-set-foot-on-the-moon/?utm_term=.8c556e58d02f

#sociology #internet The researcher whose rats predicted the Internet - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-researcher-whose-rats-predicted-the-internet/?utm_term=.fbc2ac93dc78

#biography #people One of the greatest astronomers of her generation - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/one-of-the-greatest-astronomers-of-her-generation/?utm_term=.dc15df683411

#biography #history The astronomer who took gay rights to the Supreme Court - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-astronomer-who-took-gay-rights-to-the-supreme-court/

#physics #history How a solar eclipse made Albert Einstein famous - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/how-a-solar-eclipse-made-albert-einstein-famous/?utm_term=.1dcb4077aac6

[NPR - Science] I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For ... Lab-Grown Animal Proteins! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/02/747026144/dairy-ice-cream-no-cow-needed-these-egg-and-milk-proteins-are-made-without-anima

#aliens #humor #ethics #foods Storming Area 51 - Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer - Aug 1, 2019 | SETI Institute https://www.seti.org/storming-area-51 "The idea for this effort was birthed on Facebook, and it was clearly intended as a joke. But so was Johnny Carson s 1973 claim that the U.S. was running out of toilet paper an offhand attempt at humor that triggered a real shortage. So joke or no, the hordes might really show up at the closely guarded federal facility. BookMaker, an Internet betting site, is already weighing the odds of a tsunami of citizens storming the chain-links and, if they do, the chances that they ll find any aliens mothballed inside. It s all good fun (unless, perhaps, you re a security guard for the Air Force.) But should you go? And, really, is there any reason to believe that extraterrestrials are stacked up at Area 51?" Latest news https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=firefox-b-d&biw=960&bih=445&tbm=nws&ei=II5GXe6vC46y5wKNtpeYAg&q=area+51+storm&oq=area+51+storm&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0.12678.14750.0.15529.5.1.0.4.4.0.130.130.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.5.164....0.yfDHhYf-z-k

#aliens They Can't Stop Us All par Finderz Keeperz https://soundcloud.com/finderzkeeperz/theycantstopusall We partnered with ''Storm area 51,they cant stop us all'' to bring the official anthem for the raid event. We are beyond thrilled to have this opportunity and we hope it snaps your fucking neck. Event page(disactactivated by facebook): bit.ly/sa51tcsua

#weird Chihuahua Was Abducted by a Seagull. It Could Happen, Expert Says. https://www.livescience.com/66006-gull-abducts-chihuahua.html

#music #18+ Rammstein 'Radio' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_(Rammstein_song) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK1_C0NdSOg https://genius.com/Genius-english-translations-rammstein-radio-english-translation-lyrics

#aliens How could aliens find us? - BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-could-aliens-find-us/p073jvp0?playlist=universal-wonders

#moon Moon landing: Why the Moon is still such a mystery - BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/why-the-moon-is-still-such-a-mystery/p07h0hzw?playlist=universal-wonders

#asteroids The weird world of comets - BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-medieval-monks-are-revealing-our-universes-sec/p07jljv5?playlist=universal-wonders

#medieval How analysis of texts from the early medieval period can help us understand comets - and our universe. - BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-medieval-monks-are-revealing-our-universes-sec/p07jljv5?playlist=universal-wonders

#people Three amazing astronomers you need to know about - Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Vera Rubin changed the way we view the universe. So why don't we hear more about them? BBC Ideas https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/the-women-who-changed-the-way-we-see-the-universe/p072n3vj?playlist=universal-wonders

#history Can the man who found the Titanic find Amelia Earhart? - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49231625

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