May 13, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, This Weird Planetary System Seems Like Something From Science Fiction, travel, vacation, Video
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It’s a dim bulb of a star, but its weak light may fall on living beings.
TRAPPIST-1, a red dwarf star that’s a short 39 light-years distant, is hitting the headlines again. It was in the news last year because of the discovery of three accompanying planets. Now a team of astronomers has found four additional worlds in orbit around this ruddy sun.
Remarkably, these planets are of a type that would make them candidates for hosting the dirty chemistry we call “life.” All are roughly the size of Earth, and all receive an amount of sunlight that might make for tolerable temperatures, depending on their atmospheres (if any).
Mind you, this is a planetary system rather unlike our own. It’s more compact than a bonsai bush, and if we could arrange to move all seven of these worlds to our own solar system, they would fit within the orbit of Mercury with oodles of room to spare.
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Artist’s impression of a planet orbiting a red dwarf star. Seth Shostak
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http://www.nbcnews.com/mach/space/weird-planetary-system-seems-something-science-fiction-n724136
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May 13, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, Survival of the Fittest Has Evolved: Try Survival of the Kindest, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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We’ve often heard that if you want to succeed in life, you need to subscribe to the idea of “survival of the fittest.” Success, we are commonly told, has to be grabbed; it has to be taken or someone else will get it.
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When I initially presented some of my ideas about the power of compassion in success and achievement, my critics pointed out that Darwinism made my argument weak: It was, in their way of thinking, the Jenga piece that would crash my faulty tower of compassion. I quickly acquired as many of Charles Darwin’s works as possible and carefully read through them searching for the Jenga pieces that could take down my argument.
Instead, I found that most of Charles Darwin’s work, especially “The Descent of Man,” not only supports the general argument of this book; it doesn’t support the idea of what most call Darwinism. Darwin’s research shows that “survival of the kindest” is more correct for explaining which species climb the evolutionary ladder efficiently and effectively.
According to biologists from Darwin to E. O. Wilson, cooperation has been more important than competition in humanity’s evolutionary success. Compassion is the reason for both the human race’s survival and its ability to continue to thrive as a species.
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Close up of two people clasping hands Portra Images / Getty Images
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http://www.nbcnews.com/better/relationships/survival-fittest-has-evolved-try-survival-kindest-n730196
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May 13, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Human Interest, Political
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The statue, which stood for 106 years, is the second monument to come down after the New Orleans City Council voted to remove the four landmarks in 2015. After years of heated public debate and legal battles, recent court decisions paved the way for the city to relocate the four monuments.
Dozens of people — a crowd opposed to the monument’s removal as well as those backing it — gathered at the Davis statue before the operation began, at times screaming insults and threats at each other. Police separated the sides with barriers.
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New Orleans begins removing second Confederate monument
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/us/new-orleans-confederate-monument-removal/index.html
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May 13, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime, Human Interest, Technical
amazon, business, Business News, CNN, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, Massive cyberattack targeting 99 countries causes sweeping havoc, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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Hospitals, major companies and government offices have been hit by a massive wave of cyberattacks across the globe that seize control of computers until the victims pay a ransom.
Cybersecurity firm Avast said it had identified more than 75,000 ransomware attacks in 99 countries, making it one of the broadest and most damaging cyberattacks in history.
Avast said the majority of the attacks targeted Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan. But U.K. hospitals, Chinese universities and global firms like Fedex (FDX) also reported they had come under assault.
Europol said Saturday that the attack was of an “unprecedented level and requires international investigation.”
The ransomware, called “WannaCry,” locks down all the files on an infected computer and asks the computer’s administrator to pay in order to regain control of them. The exploit was leaked last month as part of a trove of NSA spy tools.
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How a ransomware attack can affect emergency services (watch Video)
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http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/12/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-microsoft/index.html
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May 12, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Human Interest, Science
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Harvard Scientists Say Aliens May Be Using Giant Radio Beams To Travel, Hotels, huffingtonpost, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video
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Two Harvard University scientists are suggesting that mysterious fast radio bursts, detected in faraway galaxies, may be evidence of aliens traveling through the cosmos.
FRBs are extremely bright flashes of radio waves that last for only a thousandth of a second and are detected by earthbound telescopes. Since the first one was observed 10 years ago, 17 have actually been reported, although scientists think there are thousands of them a day.
At first, Abraham “Avi” Loeb said, he took a conservative approach to explaining them.
“It looked like the simplest explanation would be flares from stars in the Milky Way galaxy,” said Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist and chair of Harvard’s astronomy department.
But then “one of the FRBs was localized to reside in a small galaxy at a distance of about a billion light-years away,” Loeb told The Huffington Post. (One light-year is about 6 trillion miles.)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aliens-space-travel-fast-radio-bursts_us_58caf1f7e4b00705db4d8f65?j1
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May 12, 2017
Mohenjo
Arts, Human Interest, Technical
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The data for the globe comes from SEDAC, NASA‘s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center. Each spike represents the number of people living at that location. The populations are sampled at specific points, so the tallest spike doesn’t necessarily mean that area has the densest population. It could be that the spike just happened to coincide with the center of a city. Though having worked with world population data many times before, I’d say the spikes looks more or less as I would expect. Originally the populations were based on point samples. I’ve since updated the calculation to include the area around each point. The height of each spike now reflects the total population of the rectangular cell surrounding it (each cell measures 1.4° x 0.7°).
The graphic was made with WebGL, which, if you’re not familiar with it, is a relatively new and esoteric programming library for rendering 3D graphics. By sending instructions directly to your computer’s graphics card, it allows for web-based visuals that are far more complex than would otherwise be possible, opening new possibilities for visualizing data.
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The world’s population in 2015 (full screen version)
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http://metrocosm.com/3d-world-population-globe/
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May 12, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime
amazon, business, Business News, COLUMBUS Mississippi, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, nbc news, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Wrongfully Convicted Child’s Murder Confession Tests Compensation Law
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He obsessed over the police interrogation for years, tormenting himself with questions he could not answer.
“How could you be so stupid?” Tyler Edmonds asked himself. “Why would you do that?”
Edmonds was 13 when he told detectives he helped his half-sister shoot her husband in his sleep ─ a story he says she concocted to skirt blame. He spent four years behind bars before his murder conviction was overturned and a second jury acquitted him. He went to therapy, and studied why children admit to crimes they didn’t commit. He began to understand what he’d done.
“I think the answer is that you’re young and you don’t know any better,” Edmonds, now 27, said.
He has rebuilt his life in many ways. But he is still paying for that confession.
After Mississippi passed a law allowing exonerees to seek compensation, Edmonds sought a payout that he hoped would help his mother, who went deep into debt to pay for his defense. The state refused to give it to him. A judge sided with the state.
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Tyler Edmonds last month at his family’s farmhouse in Columbus, Mississippi. Brock Stoneham / NBC News
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wrongfully-convicted-child-s-murder-confession-tests-compensation-law-n742086
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May 12, 2017
Mohenjo
Breaking News, Crime
amazon, business, Business News, CNN, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, ICE announces major anti-gang operation, medicine, mental-health, mostly US citizens arrested, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, Video, Washington
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Though the effort was led by ICE, the focus was not exclusively on immigrants. Of the arrests, 933 were US citizens and 445 were foreign nationals, with 384 in the country illegally.
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ICE said three of the arrested individuals were previous recipients of protected status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, instituted by the Obama administration for undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children.
Criminal violations or being deemed a public safety threat can void a person’s DACA status.
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/11/politics/ice-gang-arrests-operation/index.html
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May 11, 2017
Mohenjo
Arts, Human Interest, Photographs, Technical
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Deviant Art, Future, Hotels, human-rights, Macro 111. by MCN22 is a captivating macro photograph of a bee, medicine, mental-health, photo, research, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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This is a really fascinating close look at nature!
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A captivating macro photograph of a bee
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May 11, 2017
Mohenjo
Human Interest, Science
amazon, business, Business News, current-events, Future, Hotels, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, Phys.org, research, Science, Science News, Study reveals plants 'listen' to find sources of water, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation
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A study led by The University of Western Australia has found plants have far more complex and developed senses than we thought with the ability to detect and respond to sounds to find water, and ultimately survive.
In the study “Tuned in: plant roots use sound to locate water” published in Oecologia, UWA researchers found that plants can sense sound vibrations from running water moving through pipes or in the soil, to help their roots move towards the source of water. The study also revealed that plants do not like certain noises and will move away from particular sounds.
Lead researcher Dr Monica Gagliano from UWA’s Centre of Evolutionary Biology at the School of Animal Biology said water was a basic need for a plant’s survival, and the study showed that sound plays a significant role in helping plants cater to this need.
“We used the common garden pea plant (Pisum sativum) as the model for our study and put the plant into a container which had two tubes at the base, giving it a choice of two directions for the growth of its roots.
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Credit: University of Western Australia
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https://phys.org/news/2017-04-reveals-sources.html
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