The Metropolitan Police Department held a briefing Wednesday about “the current and future use” of drones to fight crime in the Las Vegas Valley.|
If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. Nikola Tesla “Frequency and vibration” is another way of saying “waves”, but ...| Living Voluntary
(Author’s note: this post is meant to serve as an introduction and preface for future posts discussing specifics of physics and related concepts in more detail.) Reality Check: The Standard ...| Living Voluntary
The relationship between the teachings of Christ and many so-called Christian religions (historically and vaguely called “Christianity”) is similar to the relationship between the scientific method and science as a ...| Living Voluntary
Record-Keeping Technology People have been making records as long as they have been writing. Money serves as a unit of account, which makes the consistent tracking of finances and business ...| Living Voluntary
After Milton Friedman published a 1975 compilation of writings titled There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, the phrase (lifted from Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi novel about a lunar penal colony) became something of a libertarian shibboleth. For Friedman, the “free lunch myth” was epitomized by the ostensibly “free” goods and services provided by the […]| n+1Articles – n+1
Walk into a typical pub 30 years ago, and you’d likely have left with a heavy smell of cigarette smoke clinging to your clothes. Nowadays, you are far more likely to encounter a gust of watermelon-scented vape smoke while out and about. According to the Office for National Statistics, the popularity of cigarettes has fallen massively in recent years, with 25% of young adults smoking in 2011, compared to just 10% today. However, this decrease in smoking rates has been […] The post Nicotine...| The Oxford Student
“Brain rot” is the Oxford Word of the Year in 2024, highlighting the effects of social media and short-form content on our brains with shortened attention span, dopamine overload, overstimulation, and so on. However, halfway through 2025, “brain rot” is no longer targeted as the biggest enemy of the human brain, but a new, young form of technology: Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is eroding our brains. The news broke after the findings of a famous recent MIT study went public […] T...| The Oxford Student
When making tough decisions, humans the world over prefer reflecting on their own rather than accepting advice or information from elsewhere.| Futurity
Researchers used genomic analysis to show when cavefishes lost their eyes, which provides a method for dating cave systems.| Futurity
New research may change how neurodevelopmental disorders are treated during adolescence and, possibly, into adulthood.| Futurity
In late 1948, the Women’s Club of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, decided to devote one of its programs to developments in the field of communications over the previous half-century. To secure information to facilitate that discussion, on October 19, Lucille Robb wrote to the Department of State’s Office of Transport and Communications asking for information on the … Continue reading A View of Telecommunication in 1948: Past, Present, and Future| The Text Message
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AI and biotechnology could solve humanity’s toughest problems — or trigger chaos, collapse, and dystopia. Mustafa Suleyman’s The Coming Wave warns we’re not ready. Can we contain what we’ve unleash…| Unsolicited Feedback
Review by Simon Pirani of Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change, by Friederike Otto (Greystone Books, 2025). Republished, with thanks, from the Ecologis…| People and Nature
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Neurobiologists at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found the brain’s internal GPS changes each time mice navigate a familiar, static environment.| News Bureau
Why are humans so good at acquiring information and power but not wisdom? In Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari explores how human information networks enable large numbers of people to cooperate over great …| Unsolicited Feedback
Resolution No.57-NQ/TW, signed by Party General Secretary To Lam on December 22, considers science and technology, innovation and digital transformation as the decisive factor for development.| Vietnam Economic Times | VnEconomy
A silicone liner that constantly monitors the size and shape of an amputee's residual limb could vastly reduce the blisters, sores, rashes, and other insults caused by ill-fitting sockets.| Amplitude
One of the advantages of Encyclopedia Virginia being digital is that we can illustrate our entries with interactive media. We use Google technology to create tours of historic locations in Virginia so that our users can virtually step into the places we talk about in our entries. Right now, EV features 90 virtual tours, and that number is constantly growing. Read more about: Shooting the Shot Tower| Encyclopedia Virginia
The UK life sciences sector contributes £94 billion to the economy each year, but it faces increasing global competition, alongside internal challenges such as low numbers of NHS clinical trials, and slow regulatory approval processes. Here, Professor Alejandro Frangi outlines how in silico technologies – Artificial Intelligence and other computer-based approaches for virtual product development and testing – can maintain the UK’s leadership in life sciences innovation and clinical tri...| Policy@Manchester Articles
Reading Time: 2minutesDisponible en français. Population and income growth are leading to an increasing demand for animal proteins. However, there are concerns related to the world’s capacity to meet that growing demand, as well as to the environmental and health effects of... Read More › The post Executive Summary – Expanding Protein Options: Emerging Science and Policy Implications appeared first on HillNotes.| HillNotes
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.| www.nytimes.com
By Lynne Lumsden Green Astounding Science Fiction, January 1955 – She blinded me with science, And hit me with technology. Excerpt from ‘She Blinded Me With Science’ by Thomas Dolby – The concept of a ‘Spinster Scientist’ is an artefact of Western Society during the twentieth century. Women, historically, had to fight for the right … Continue reading The Stereotype of the Spinster Scientist→|
About 19 positions will be cut, including those in offices focused on technology policy and diversity, equity and inclusion.| www.nytimes.com
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The job parameters for wildland firefighters haven’t changed significantly since the 1980s. What has changed significantly since the ’80s is the climate. So essentially, they’re working with the job expectations, compensation, and health care packages of a planet in which they fight fires for maybe 10 percent of their time and spend the other 90 percent doing forest management projects. But now wildland firefighters spend at least 90 percent of their time fighting fires, if not 100 perc...| n+1Articles – n+1
Delaware Prosperity Partnership and Incyte receive an award recoginizing their efforts to expand business and economic development in Delaware| Business in Delaware | Delaware Prosperity Partnership
The Contexts team is happy to welcome the esteemed Dr. Alondra Nelson. The Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, where she leads the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab, and a distinguished senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Nelson served from 2021-2023 as deputy assistant to President Joe Biden […]| Articles – Contexts
Instant news flashed to downtown crowds by 3,136 electric light bulbs.| Flashback : Dallas
By Simon Pirani. Reproduced, with thanks, from Capitalism Nature Socialism journal, August 2024. Introduction Matthew Huber and Fred Stafford’s insistence that “electricity is poised to be a centra…| People and Nature
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Here are all the deals worth exploring on Ring Doorbells, Fire TVs, Echo Devices and more before the Prime Day sale comes to a close at midnight| Chronicle Live
On Monday, June 3, 2024, ODC attended an afternoon conference titled “Enabling Environment for a Human-Centered Adoption of AI in ASEAN” at the Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Resort in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The conference was a side event of the larger 85th meeting of the ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology, and Innovation (COSTI-85). The conference was| Open Development Cambodia (ODC)
NIH funds increase Understanding America Study participant diversity, add data sources and support Alzheimer’s and related dementia research| News and Events
Human embryo models are created from stem cells and provide opportunities to study early embryo development in ways that would generally be impermissible if real human embryos were used. Here, Dr Jonathan Lewis and Professor Soren Holm argue that with human embryo models becoming more advanced, regulations governing human embryo research need to be established to allow regulators, researchers, and funders to assess whether certain models should be considered as human embryos.| Policy@Manchester Articles
Delaying a phone's swiping and tapping functions forces users to think harder, making it easier for them to consider whether to keep scrolling.| Michigan Engineering News
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. Buckminster Fuller What we call matter is composed of conjugate gyroscopic toroidal standing waves and hyperboloid vortices of ether…| Living Voluntary
What, then, can light be, if not a transverse vibration? I consider this extremely important. Light cannot be anything but a longitudinal perturbation in the ether involving alternative compression…| Living Voluntary
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” – Thomas Jefferson…| Living Voluntary
On December 4, 2023, I received the following email from the NAS (National Association of Scholars): The NAS here is attempting to stand against the subversion of the academy…| Bill Dembski
In this information age, where Professor Google has become the expert of choice, being scientifically literate is an essential life skill. It is as important as reading and writing. Sydney Morning …| Science or not?