A very optimistic view at the science of 2021. Still, some of these things will come to pass. a good antidote to all the nonsense going on in the world.
Decrypting the Brain: modeling the complex mind Hacking Space: public and private access spurs a new space age Massively Multiplayer Data: human-data interaction emerges as a core discipline Sea the Future: oceans become the new frontier for energy, ecology, and engineering Strange Matter: unnatural materials reshape our world Engineered Evolution: manipulating biology from the bottom up
select bus service, you are doing it wrong. the awkward printing of a special ticket is completely unnecessary. all MTA needs to do is issue portable card readers to whoever checks tickets on the select bus service. cheaper and faster.
unless your skill level is in the top 1% worldwide the great leveling will happen. protectionism will not save you.
At this point in the article Stiglitz stumbles. He mistakenly assumes that in our current depression/dislocation, technological improvement caused a loss of manufacturing jobs (productivity and portability overseas) that has forced a migration of workers to service industries. This has led to a decline in incomes across the board and stubbornly high unemployment.
Unfortunately, the reality is more dire. This technology shift also made it possible to shift service jobs around the world too. As a result, this is a recipe for an inevitable collapse in US and EU incomes (the effects of which are already being seen huge government deficits due to low tax receipts), a knock on global depression, and political chaos.
What are the solutions? Stiglitz would have you believe it is more government spending. An effort to build infrastructure and do more training. I don’t believe that will work. Most governments are already near bankruptcy and this crisis is global and not national.
why do bathroom stalls in the US rarely have real doors going all the way to the floor? some mullah decree against hanky-panky?
Your toilets are too low down and the stalls have massive gaps around the door so that people can see in. You can put a man on the moon but can’t design a setup whereby I can have a shit in comfortable privacy. Sort it out America.
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We ask citizens to bear with us as we modernize every toilet stall in the country by doubling the width of the gap between each door and its surrounding frame.
Researchers in the United States and Great Britain have made a significant breakthrough in deciphering dolphin language in which a series of 8 objects have been sonically identified by dolphins. Team leader, Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com, ‘spoke’ to dolphins with the dolphin’s own sound picture words. Dolphins in 2 separate research centers understood the words, presenting convincing evidence that dolphins employ a universal “sono-pictorial” language of communication.
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Marine biologists have connected 2 dolphin research habitats with underwater microphones and speakers. They hope the chat line will enable a dolphin calf to learn to “talk” by communicating with dolphins in the other facility.
Uplift Universe is required context for this talk. in particular: Neo-Dolphins
If the dolphins engaged in meaningful communication with near-human complexity, the frequency of these sounds would yield a logarithmic slope of -1—just like most human languages. Dolphin recordings had a gradient of -.95. This suggests that “dolphinese” may exhibit syntax. In comparison, the squirrel monkeys’ Zipf slope was never lower than -0.6, meaning the signals were too random to exhibit syntax. The cotton plant, which communicates through chemical emissions, had a signal distribution slope closer to -1.6, meaning the signals were too redundant.
i’m wondering if we could clean up the NYC subway with a combination of honey badgers and roombas. honey badgers because they don’t care and roombas because they are awesome.
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