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  • What Matters to Adrian Chen This Week — Matter — Medium

    The last word of @everyword Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: “It began as kind of a snarky stunt—a parody of (what I perceived to be) the needless verbosity of Twitter,” Parrish told me back in 2011. “’You like posting words on Twitter? Well, here’s a thing that is posting EVERY word!…

  • The Future of Technology Isn’t Just a Rich Man’s Game – SERIOUS WONDER

    While many still fear of a wealth gap in technology, history shows a different story for our future! – B.J. Murphy for Serious Wonder See on www.seriouswonder.com

  • What Warner Bros/DC Comics Is Planning At Comic-Con In July – NikkiFinke.com

    What Warner Bros/DC Comics Is Planning At Comic-Con In July – NikkiFinke.com

      We know that Warner Bros Pictures is way behind Marvel Studios when it comes to making movies out of its comic book properties. But I have intel on what is coming up at this July’s  Comic-Con from the studio. A lot of stuff remains in flux  but my sources have so far: May 2016 –…

  • #DontNeedFixin, #DontNeedStonin

    #DontNeedFixin, #DontNeedStonin

    As I pointed out earlier today, Oklahoma Tea Party candidate Scott Esk favors stoning LGBTQ to death… you know, like God tells us to do in the Old Testament. Last week, the Texas Republican party decided to add to its Party Platform that it supports “reparative therapy” for gay people.…

  • Hubble finds mysterious disk of blue stars around a black hole

      Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have identified the source of a mysterious blue light surrounding a supermassive black hole in our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Though the light has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade, the new discovery makes the story even more mysterious. Keith Wayne…

  • It’s Really Hard to Be a Good Guy With a Gun

    My wife and I got into an argument last night over a dead man. His name was Joseph Robert Wilcox. He was 31 on Sunday, the day he tried to stop cop-killer Jerad Miller in a Las Vegas Walmart and was shot by Miller’s wife Amanda. Wilcox was a good…

  • Does Fox News Cause Ignorance, or Do Ignorant Viewers Prefer Fox News?

    Fox News viewers are not moderate Republicans. They’re right wingers. See on www.newrepublic.com

  • No, A ‘Supercomputer’ Did NOT Pass The Turing Test For The First Time And Everyone Should Know Better | Techdirt

    So, this weekend’s news in the tech world was flooded with a “story” about how a “chatbot” passed the Turing Test for “the first time,” with lots of publications buying every point in the story and talking about what… Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Woops! Let myself get taken in for…

  • A Computer Program Has Passed the Turing Test For the First Time

    This is big. A computer program has successfully managed to fool a bunch of researchers into thinking that it was a 13-year-old boy named Eugene Goostman. In doing so, it has become the first in the world to have successfully passed the Turing Test. See on gizmodo.com

  • Welcome to Night Vale

    Listen to episodes of Welcome to Night Vale on podbay.fm. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: If you have not given yourself the pleasure, go listen to some podcasts from “Welcome to Night Vale.” From Wikipedia: Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast presented as a radio show for the fictional town…

  • New Report Documents How Privatization Steals Wages, Harms Communities

    A new report from the nonprofit research group In the Public Interest shows that outsourcing public services hurts middle and working class communities as well as workers. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Habibi noted that there was a growing body of evidence that outsourcing leads to a downward spiral as that…

  • A fuel cell for home? A miniature power station for home use is based on a solid fuel cell

    It converts chemical energy directly into electrical energy. Still, there hadn’t been a market breakthrough for the fuel cell. The systems were too complex. Now, Fraunhofer and Vaillant have developed a simple device for home use. Together with the heater manufacturer Vaillant, the IKTS has developed a compact, safe and…

  • Mega-Earth Discovered

    Mega-Earth Discovered

    There is a new class of planet out there that astronomers are calling the “mega-Earth”. It is an object with a hard surface like our own world but much, much bigger. The necessity for the new designation follows the discovery of a planet which has a mass some 17 times…

  • Programming matter by folding: Shape-shifting robots

    Self-folding sheets of a plastic-like material point the way to robots that can assume any conceivable 3-D structure. Programmable matter is a material whose properties can be programmed to achieve specific shapes or stiffnesses upon command. This concept requires constituent elements to interact and rearrange intelligently in order to meet…

  • The Strange, Secret History of Isaac Newton’s Papers | Science | WIRED

    Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: An interview with the author of a new book, The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts, which traces the mysterious and precarious history of Newton’s works–not only on science but a great many on Biblical prophecy, heretical notions of God, and…

  • Wireless networks are getting a big upgrade for the smartphone generation: Multi-user beamforming

    Wireless networks are getting a big upgrade for the smartphone generation. Beamforming was part of 802.11n, the previous Wi-Fi version, but 11ac defines it in more detail, making interoperability between access points and end-user devices more likely. Separately, beamforming plays an important role in “WiGig,” which is based on the 802.11ad specification…

  • Dead or Meditating? Court to Rule

    A court has been called to rule on whether a wealthy guru is dead or in a transcendental meditative state. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: “…Maharaj’s family has filed a court application for further investigation and release of the body for last rites and cremation. Police initially agreed with the physicians that…

  • Re-Visioning the Masculine and Feminine Side of Men and Women – SOLAR LUNAR

    A core Jungian concept proposes that men develop their feminine side (anima) and women their masculine side (animus); this constrictive terminology confines us to rigid ideas of gender. However, Jung’s rediscovery of alchemical mythology, which uses imagery of the sun … Continue reading → Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Moon and…