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Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future. Source: When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot For Humans?
From 1347 to 1351, a nightmare disease ravaged Europe, afflicting victims with putrid black boils, fevers, vomiting, and in short order, death. Daily life ground to a halt as the Black Death spread along medieval trade routes, claiming an estimated 20 million lives with ruthless efficiency. Now, a team of researchers is asserting that the…
A Stanford professor argues that a profit imperative is in tension with the needs of a democratic society. Source: Does Silicon Valley Have Any Obligations to Democracy? – The Atlantic
The kitchen, the bedroom, and other places should be off-limits to devices, says psychologist Source: Sherry Turkle’s Rules for Using Your Phone – The Atlantic
In a landmark public health finding, a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health finds that carbon dioxide (CO2) has a direct and negative impact on human cognition and decision-making… Source: Exclusive: Elevated CO2 Levels Directly Affect Human Cognition, New Harvard Study Shows
An evolutionary biologist studies how flocks of birds, slime molds, networks of neurons, and other biological collectives jointly process information. Source: Jessica Flack and the Countless Computers Embedded in Nature – The Atlantic
There isn’t a great deal of macro cinematography and after drinking in this video, you might wonder “Why not?” German photographer and filmmaker Roman De Giuli creates beautiful and complex scenes using simple ingredients on areas sometimes smaller than the surface of a coin. Source: Macro Photographer Creates Amazing Organic Video FX Inspired by the…
The EFF’s annual Who Has Your Back report singles out giant telecommunications providers for their prioritization of government requests for data over privacy. Source: Telcos Singled Out for Prioritizing Government Requests for Data Over Privacy | Threatpost | The first stop for security news
Source: Who Has Your Back? Government Data Requests 2017 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The millions of photos uploaded to social media are a massive untapped resource for studying humanity. But machine learning is beginning to tap this mother lode. Source: Data-Mining 100 Million Instagram Photos Reveals Global Clothing Patterns – MIT Technology Review
Source: Google’s Dandelion startup wants to make geothermal energy more affordable for homeowners | News | Archinect
E-waste is a growing problem and electronic companies are contributing to it because it is getting increasingly complex to repair mobile devices. Together with iFixit, Greenpeace ranked 40 different smartphones, tablets and laptops based on the ability to repair. Source: Greenpeace and iFixit present product repair guide — Goodelectronics
We partnered with Greenpeace to disassemble and rate 44 recent devices from 17 different manufacturers for repairability. Did your device come out on top? Source: Repair Is the New Green | iFixit
It’s basically hiding bad things in good things. Source: What Is Steganography? | WIRED
The more researchers learn about metformin, the more it seems like a medieval wonder drug that could extend lifespans in the 21st century. Source: Forget the Blood of Teens. Metformin Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pill. | WIRED
We tested 6 brands, risking pit stains and smelliness, so you don’t have to. Source: Do probiotic deodorants really work? | Popular Science
Oxford scientists are excited by the prospect of making a drug from a bug. Source: Tick saliva ‘gold mine’ blocks killer heart condition – BBC News
They do have their uses after all. Source: Proteins found in tick spit could save you from heart disease – ScienceAlert
Air pollution might be invisible, but it results in 7 million premature deaths each year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). To scrub the air of harmful particulates, “CityTree”… Source: This urban ‘tree’ cleans as much polluted air as an entire forest | Inhabitat – Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building
Dr. Donna Van Natten, the Body Language Dr, talks about four key areas of nonverbal communication to watch (and listen) for when it comes to reading people’s emotions. Source: Science Just Figured Out a Way to Help You Instantly Read Another Person’s Emotions | Inc.com
History was recently revealed as the top declared major for the class of 2019 at Yale, reclaiming a spot it hasn’t occupied in two decades. Source: Students are making history a popular college major again in the age of Donald Trump — Quartz
As David Brooks of the New York Times recently wrote, the college has the “courage to be distinct.” Source: The value of a liberal arts education in the modern world — Quartz
“You cannot be a creative, imaginative human being without anxiety,” Kierkegaard said. Source: The benefits of anxiety — Quartz
Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear bomb tests. For each of those tests, the government used multiple cameras filmin Source: U.S. Nuclear Bomb Test Footage is Now On YouTube
Destruction – Carbon = Sustainability Source: Environmentalism used to be about defending the wild – not any more | Mark Boyle | Opinion | The Guardian
Humans made a huge cognitive leap when they first sketched figures onto rocks—now, computers are learning to do the same. Source: If Google Teaches an AI to Draw, Will That Help It Think? – The Atlantic
Acknowledging our unimportance liberates us from the grips of the self-centered voice in our head causing a lot of life’s difficulties. Source: The purpose of life is to be a nobody — Quartz
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