Page 8170
Feb 24, 2019
Anti-vaxx propaganda has gone viral on Facebook. Pinterest has a cure
Posted by Caycee Dee Neely in categories: biotech/medical, education
Since my previous post about Youtube and anti-vaccination was such a hit, here’s now Pinterest handles it. They broke their own search engine to keep these things from getting passed around. They also blocked the ability to pin links or images from any number of pseudoscience websites such as Mercola, Natural News, GreedMedInfo, and HealthNutNews.
They also did this to their hash-tag library to keep people from finding workarounds.
O n Wednesday morning, Adam Schiff, the powerful chair of the House intelligence committee, joined journalists around the world in a nascent Twitter meme: he searched “vaccine” on Facebook and posted a screenshot of the results.
Continue reading “Anti-vaxx propaganda has gone viral on Facebook. Pinterest has a cure” »
Feb 24, 2019
Maryland Transhumanist Party
Posted by Mark Larkento in categories: geopolitics, transhumanism
“A staging ground for planning the Maryland Transhumanist Party.
.” ~ Dan Elton
Email Forms.
Feb 24, 2019
Doubling Our DNA Building Blocks Could Lead to New Life Forms
Posted by Derick Lee in category: biotech/medical
That’s why Ellington sees a more immediate use for the technology in the up-and-coming field of DNA data storage. Large tech firms and startups alike are evaluating whether nucleotides can beat out silicon when it comes to long-term, archival information storage. DNA is notoriously data-dense, and the arrival of hachimoji just doubled its information-carrying capacity.
But first, chemists hope to improve DNA data storage and churn out new medical compounds.
Read more
Feb 23, 2019
Family hosts stem cell donor drive at Surrey gurdwara for relative’s second time battling cancer
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Focus of the drive is to increase number of South Asian donors.
The senior girls team will be heading to the provincials for the first time in the school’s history.
Artificial intelligence experts, ethicists and diplomats debated autonomous weapons. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Think killer robots. What comes to mind? Maybe…this guy?
Feb 23, 2019
Meet WFIRST, The Space Telescope with the Power of 100 Hubbles
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
WFIRST ain’t your grandma’s space telescope. Despite having the same size mirror as the surprisingly reliable Hubble Space Telescope, clocking in at 2.4 meters across, this puppy will pack a punch with a gigantic 300 megapixel camera, enabling it to snap a single image with an area a hundred times greater than the Hubble.
With that fantastic camera and the addition of one of the most sensitive coronagraphs ever made – letting it block out distant starlight on a star-by-star basis – this next-generation telescope will uncover some of the deepest mysteries of the cosmos.
Continue reading “Meet WFIRST, The Space Telescope with the Power of 100 Hubbles” »
Feb 23, 2019
Jeff Bezos: New Shepard Will Launch First People Into Space “This Year”
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: space, transportation
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wants to send its first passengers to space as soon as this year. Bezos spoke during a private event at the Yale Club in New York City, Business Insider reports.
“This year. This is the first time I’ve ever been saying, ”this year.” For a few years, I’ve been saying, ”next year,” Bezos told Jeff Foust, senior staff writer at Space News, during the event.
The billionaire’s private space tourism company Blue Origins has been making some big strides towards that goal in recent years. Its flagship suborbital vehicle New Shepard reached the so-called Kármán line (62 miles or 100 km), widely agreed to be the edge of outer space, for the first time during a test flight in 2015.
Read more
Feb 23, 2019
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Is Greenlit for March 2 Unmanned Mission to the ISS
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel
NASA has given the green light for Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch the first unmanned test of its seven-seat Crew Dragon capsule on March 2 after passing a full day of reviews, bringing the space agency one step closer to replacing the retired Space Shuttle program after years of delays and ending its dependency on contracted Russian Soyuz rockets.
The test flight was originally scheduled for January, but was later delayed to complete hardware testing and other reviews. Per Space.com, NASA and SpaceX officials have now completed an in-depth review of the Crew Dragon’s capabilities called a flight readiness review, with NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Kathy Leuders telling reporters they needed to verify the craft “can safely go rendezvous and dock with the space station, and undock safely, and not pose a hazard to the International Space Station.”
Read more
