Claire Fox MP in Parliament: “Another illiberal amendment put forward to the Environment Bill – to create the crime of ECOCIDE. The deliberate attempt to link allegations of destroying the
It’s common knowledge, at this point, that artificial intelligence will soon be capable of outworking humans — if not entirely outmoding them — in plenty of areas. How much we’ll
A new study has found that salivary glands in mammals and venom glands in snakes and spiders share similar, ancient hardware, indicating that humans could at one point have developed
Researchers in Mexico have made a nose-only Covid mask, which they say reduces the risk of infection of coronavirus during eating and talking. pic.twitter.com/ArUEGZaJj3 — CBS News (@CBSNews) March 24,
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Hi Martin, while I concur with your views that humans are taking too much “credit” for climate change, I can’t say I agree with the chart
A 70-year-old Hong Kong woman was revealed on Monday to be the world’s second case of rat hepatitis E infection in humans.. Dr Siddharth Sridhar, clinical assistant professor from the
A study on Swiss Glaciers shows that the fastest melting was in the 1860s and 1870s, long before the first coal fired power. (See that steep decline from 1850-70 in
via thefreethoughtproject: Every year on September 11, Americans remember the horrific attacks that were carried out in 2001, which have been used to shape United States foreign policy, and to act
by SevereAnxiety76 You hear a lot of “renewable energy” stories on social media, they’re all fake. Vaclav Smil says a 100% energy transition takes 70 years to complete. Many say
Studies have repeatedly shown we’re extremely susceptible to social cues coming from machines, and a recent experiment by German researchers demonstrates that people will even refuse to turn a robot
A gene-by-gene, neuron-by-neuron search has turned up a new breed of brain cell that may serve as a fine-scale “volume control” for neural activity in humans. The novel type of
by stockboardasset The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) latest creation of the Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program, a new class of algorithms for quick drone navigation in cluttered environments, reminds us of the 2013 American
by Tess On top of planning your pension and future financial security, now’s the time to put money aside for downloading your brain data, according to a leading futurologist who
IBM is developing an AI which can debate humans with information stored in it’s memory. (apologies; headline says “online” and is incorrect, at least for now. ) Project Debater turned
“With Amelia, we graduate into automating the knowledge worker, the customer service agent.” By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. The last ten years have been a rough
a growing camp is saying industry pavment concrete and over population/exploitation willl wipe humands in 10 years or less AC
by Daniel Carter Humans have had a great ride. We’ve overcome vicious predators, drastic shifts in climate, diseases, large-scale warfare and many other things that would have put an end
BY PATRICK WATSON Economics is the study of people’s rational choices in scarcity and uncertainty. The problem: people aren’t rational. They often act against their own economic interests—or appear to. So
by Geoffrey Grider According to the South China Morning Post walking through the front door at the Jiujiang Road branch, users are met by a friendly looking humanoid that answers questions using
