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Sep 23, 2018
Elon Musk Just Gave The Most Revealing Look Yet at The Rocket That’ll Fly to The Moon And Mars
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Elon Musk has provided several new, rare, and telling glimpses into how his rocket company, SpaceX, is building a spacecraft to reach Mars.
On September 17, Musk announced that SpaceX would fly Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa around the moon on the company’s Big Falcon Rocket or BFR. During that event, Musk showed off new renderings of the launch system, along with a few photos of the work going on inside SpaceX’s spaceship-building tent at the Port of Los Angeles.
These were the first new details about SpaceX’s rocket construction we’d gotten since April, when Musk posted a photo that revealed SpaceX was building the spacecraft using a 40-foot-long, 30-foot-wide cylindrical tool.
Sep 23, 2018
Google, JPMorgan Chase & Co, IBM, Other Key Companies To Attend White House Quantum Computing Meeting
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI, transportation
Quantum computing ‘will enable us to predict and improve chemical reactions, new materials and their properties, as well as provide new understandings of spacetime and the emergence of our universe,’ the White House said.
Google, IBM, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and other key U.S. companies are set to attend a White House quantum computing meeting to be held on Monday, Reuters reports.
A groundbreaking technology still in its infancy, quantum computing could have a major impact on transportation, healthcare, communications, weather forecasting, artificial intelligence, and other areas. Quantum computing could, experts claim, revolutionize our society.
Sep 23, 2018
The Looking Glass — Um Display Holográfico Interativo
Posted by Paul Gonçalves in category: futurism
Esse é o “The Looking Glass”, que clama ser um display holográfico interativo. Apesar de achar que o mesmo é um display 3D volumétrico e não um holograma real, isso não tira a graça dele.
Esse é o “The Looking Glass”, que clama ser um display holográfico interativo.
Apesar de achar que o mesmo é um display 3D volumétrico e não um holograma real, isso não tira a graça dele.
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Sep 23, 2018
An Eye Infection Found in Contact Lens Wearers Can Cause Blindness
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: biotech/medical
Sep 23, 2018
Biggest Test Yet Shows Einstein Was Wrong About ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: physics
Sep 23, 2018
Study of one million people leads to world’s biggest advance in blood pressure genetics
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Over 500 new gene regions that influence people’s blood pressure have been discovered in the largest global genetic study of blood pressure to date, led by Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College London.
Involving more than one million participants, the results more than triple the number of blood pressure gene regions to over 1,000 and means that almost a third of the estimated heritability for blood pressure is now explained.
The study, published in Nature Genetics and supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Medical Research Council and British Heart Foundation, also reports a strong role of these genes, not only in blood vessels, but also within the adrenal glands above the kidney, and in body fat.
Sep 23, 2018
Waking Up with Sam Harris — #138 — The Edge of Humanity (with Yuval Noah Harari)
Posted by Mark Larkento in categories: economics, governance, information science, robotics/AI
James Hughes : “Great convo with Yuval Harari, touching on algorithmic governance, the perils of being a big thinker when democracy is under attack, the need for transnational governance, the threats of automation to the developing world, the practical details of UBI, and a lot more.”
In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. They discuss the importance of meditation for his intellectual life, the primacy of stories, the need to revise our fundamental assumptions about human civilization, the threats to liberal democracy, a world without work, universal basic income, the virtues of nationalism, the implications of AI and automation, and other topics.
Sep 23, 2018
This Study on Nearly Half a Million People Has Bad News For The Keto Diet
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, food, health
Scientists and dietitians are starting to agree on a recipe for a long, healthy life. It’s not sexy, and it doesn’t involve fancy pills or pricey diet potions.
Fill your plate with plants. Include vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, and legumes. Don’t include a lot of meat, milk, or highly processed foods that a gardener or farmer wouldn’t recognize.
“There’s absolutely nothing more important for our health than what we eat each and every day,” Sara Seidelmann, a cardiologist and nutrition researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, told Business Insider.
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