Why AI Is the ‘New Electricity’
Americans Agree More Than They Realize
What's the best way to make God laugh? Tell him your plans for the future.
- Anonymous
I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?” - Ronald Reagan
Why the robot revolution won't play out as predicted
Intelligent Machines
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33978561
Unequal growth among nations tends to produce a hegemonic world war about every 100 years. British geographer and politician Sir Halford Mackinder
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.” - Hunter S. Thompson
Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.” - Francois Sagan
Only a fool would underestimate a man with nothing to lose.” - Lance Conrad, The Price of Loyalty
AI Is About To Go Mainstream And Reshape The Workplace
This Tiny Country Feeds the World
Women or Men: Who Usually Instigates Domestic Violence?
When it comes to our brains, there's no such thing as normal
The Trap of Empire and Authoritarianism
The Source of the Next Recession
The Top Telemedicine Solutions Bringing Patients and Doctors Closer To Each Other
Oh Noooooooo!!!
The Big Five Personality Theory: The 5 Factors Explained
Good Fats as Helpful as Statins Against Heart Disease, Group Says
Exercise: The Secret to Ageing Slowly
Campus Rape Frenzy @ RealClearBooks.com
Activists and some legislators claim 1 in 5 (400,000 to 500,000) college women are raped each year. FBI expanded rape definition for 2014 says: 116,645 rapes in the entire United States in 2014.
The Data Don't Support Racist Policing Narrative
http://www.businessinsider.com/books-to-read-in-your-lifetime-2017-6/#1984-by-george-orwell-1
http://reason.com/archives/2017/06/03/the-indestructible-idea-of-the
CO2 Turned Into Fuel With Cheap Catalysts
The ‘untranslatable’ emotions you never knew you had
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.” - Winston Churchill
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Ernest Hemingway
https://qz.com/967594/the-formula-for-winning-at-life-is-actually-incredibly-simple/
TO HELP WARD OFF ALZHEIMER’S, THINK BEFORE YOU EAT
https://kaiserhealthnews.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/mind_ph_module-1_mind-diet_v2.pdf
http://www.baycrest.org/wp-content/uploads/BHFG_optimized.pdf
If you ever have a choice between selling shoes to young ladies and giving birth to a porcupine that is on fire, look into that second, less painful opportunity, the late comedian Richard Jeni.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_violence_against_LGBT_people_in_the_United_States
Near-Death Experiences and Quantum Consciousness @ Near-Death.com
WikiLeaks Says It Has CIA Spy Tools as McCain Cites Dangers
Well-being can improve quickly by eating more fruit and vegetables, study finds
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is. Yogi Berra
How robots will change the American workforce
An Epidemic of Bad Epidemiology The history of medical science is littered with long-held dogmas that, when confronted by better evidence, turned out to be wrong. Geoffrey Kabat
Here's what Canada does on immigration
AI-powered body scanners could soon be inspecting you in public places
Not robocop, but robojudge? AI learns to rule in human rights cases
I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. William Buckley
NDE Bill VandenBush NDE Scott W NDE
The Hemisphere Program @ Electronic Freedom Foundation
Telling the Truth About Crime and Policing
Scans of Monks' Brains Show Meditation Alters Structure, Functioning
Studying the Building Blocks of Life in Stereo Sound
THE 12 MOST IMPORTANT HEALTH INNOVATIONS OF THE YEAR
Depression, disease and no sex are some dangers of binge watching
Coral survived
http://www.realclearscience.com/2016/08/04/the_big_five_mass_extinctions_271722.html
http://www.cato.org/blog/heat-related-death-projections-dont-square-observations
Steppe herders believed to have been among the founders of the European civilization may have also been the first pot dealers, says a new study into the history of cannabis.
Called the Yamnaya, these nomads entered Europe about 5,000 years ago from the eastern Steppe region, in today's Ukraine and Russia. According to the research, they brought with them metallurgy, herding skills and possibly the Indo-European languages.
http://www.livescience.com/55460-pot-dealers-traced-back-5000-years.html
Warning!! Your light bulb may be spying on you!
10 YR SNAPSHOTS
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016/06/no-one-knows-what-will-happen
Americans Forget How Good They Have It
The flood of new data has forced the United Nations to revise downward its prognostications of ocean-level increases. The worst-case sea level rise by 2100 was revised downward from 3.7 meters in the first IPCC report to 1.2 to in the second, to 0.8 in the third, and to 0.6 in the fourth. The most recent IPCC assessment report, AR5, expressed “medium confidence” that there is a least a 66 percent probability of sea levels rising from 0.45 meters to 0.82 meters in a high-carbon-emissions scenario.
Twilight of the Climate Change Movement
It's Time to End Social Security For the Rich
If we reformed Social Security to make it more like real insurance, we'd need to do it gradually so people could plan, with the changes only fully affecting workers who are perhaps in their early 40s today. There would be a significantly higher basic benefit check for the least well-off. For retired singles with retiree income over, say, $25,000 in today's dollars, the check would be reduced according to income until for a retiree with, say, $100,000 in other income there would be no check at all.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-wright-robots-jobs-data-mining-20160328-story.html
https://theantiquitiescoalition.org/culture-under-threat-map
Want to Reduce Incarceration Rates? Try Targeted Surveillance
Thorough, not thoroughly fabricated: The truth about global temperature data
How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it must be done.
The Astounding Truth About the Hubble Space Telescope's Most Famous Image
Mapping the history of U.S. state politics
From the 70’s
“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72
“The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It’s come to the point where you almost can’t run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72
“In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas