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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/26/artificial-intelligence-machine-gets-testy-with-its-programmers/ For some reason, a part of this conversation seems like it would come from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.

It's scary to think about but we all know it is going to happen one day... Here is the article: but since I know advertising my site is against the rules here, I will tell you a bit about it so we can discuss the science, which is the real purpose of this site.

Recently one of our paper entitled "Life and Consciousness - The Vedāntic View" has been published in the Journal Communicative & Integrative Biology. An interesting discussion on this paper can be found at: advertising link removed by moderator Life and Consciousness - The Vedāntic View DOI: advertising link removed by moderator Journal: Communicative & Integrative Biology Publication date - 09 Oct 2015 Author: Bhakti Niskama Shanta - advertising link removed by moderator Summary (Bhakti Niskama Shanta (2015) Life and consciousness – The Vedāntic view, Communicative & Integrative Biology, 8:5, e1085138; DOI: advertising link removed by moderator This …

Link They claim to have experimentally shown the lower bound for the speed of the 'spooky action at a distance' .. to be at least... 1.38x104 C

Hurricane Patricia is heading towards Mexico with wind speeds over 200 mph and a central pressure of 880 mb. This is one of the most powerful hurricanes recorded. Does anyone know how low a pressure can possibly go and why? Data for Hurricane Patricia Hurricane Wilma had the lowest pressure in the Atlantic at 882 mb and Typhoon Tip in the Pacific at 870 mb. Hurricane Patricia is doing her best to break all the records and is now predicted to hit at cat5 status!!! Here is the visible shot.

Is there something wrong with the Dawn spacecraft? I was expecting huge numbers of detailed pictures now, especially of the light spots but so far not much is being said.

The fight against parasitic disease. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 was divided, one half jointly to William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura "for thier discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites" and the other half to Youyou Tu "for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria". http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2015/press.pdf Here's another picture of Youyou Tu ( at the front of the queue for personal pronouns?) - she is apparently in the United States at present and DOESNT know she has won the Nobel Prize. If you see You tell her! Si tu vois T…

Tomas Lindahl Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire, UK Paul Modrich Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA and Aziz Sancar University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2015/advanced-chemistryprize2015.pdf Hey Moon - A good day for NC!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/05/science/huge-trove-of-albert-einstein-documents-becomes-available-online.html?_r=0

Takaaki Kajita Super-Kamiokande Collaboration University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan and Arthur B. McDonald Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass” http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2015/advanced-physicsprize2015.pdf

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/28/nasa-scientists-find-evidence-flowing-water-mars Not checked for hype, inconsistencies, and over-inflated journalism yet - only checked to make sure it isn't April Fools Day (it isnt) http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-mars-mystery-solved

Looks a cool toy, I expect we will all soon be scanning our food. https://www.minds.com/blog/view/491749598549778432/world%E2%80%99s-first-pocket-spectrometer-lets-you-measure-the-molecular-makeup-of-nearly-anything

The Really Big One New Yorker article, and very well written. Apparently that Cascadia subduction zone has the potential for a huge earthquake, and is past its average time between quakes. We didn't know about it until recently, because the last quake happened in 1700, before the area had a written history (and most of the people with an oral history died in the quake and its aftermath) The quake will cause a tsunami Re-thinking my idea of moving back to Oregon when I retire. Also of interest: I did not know that geologists had determined the maximum strength a San Andreas quake can have is about an 8.2, and that was what many also thought the m…

There is a debate as to whether the human race should attempt to make contact with alien species by sending a message: a flare to light up our presence. So, should we attempt to make contact with alien species given what we have experienced when more technologically advanced peoples meet those less advanced? If so, what message should we send up?

TUBERCULOSIS in cattle could be eliminated within 20 to 25 years in Britain if tactics used in Scotland and Wales - which don’t involve badger culling – were adopted nationwide, new research shows. https://www.the-newshub.com/science/tb-in-cattle-can-be-wiped-out-by-more-testing-say-scientists What do you think of these latest findings?

The first in 30 years! With Discovery, 3 Scientists Chip Away At An Unsolvable Math Problem Pentagon tilings @Wikipedia: >>Pentagon tilings The new tiling @Wiki.

Not new news, but first time I have seen this process. http://www.sciencealert.com/holy-crap-watch-this-guy-turn-plastic-back-into-oil Surely this can be adapted to work with another process that has waste heat energy, maybe somewhere like a foundry that as a lot of waste heat energy that could perhaps be adapted to use this tech? maybe even incorporated into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste-to-energy_plant Edit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2727285/Waste-not-want-not-New-technology-turn-plastic-petrol-diesel.html I believe anything like this is going to be good for the environment, We all hear of the amount of plastics in…

There was recent talk here of solar plants in deserts. Looks like the Chinese are building one in the Gobi. I hope the project is a great success! - 25 square kilometers - 200 megawatts http://www.iflscience.com/environment/first-large-scale-solar-power-be-built-chinas-gobi-desert

Recently I have been told that Science has been able to produce effect in the body that will allow light to pass through and do not return back may be through some clothes or any thing else. Is this really true. I am not able to came with some recent results by Googling.

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-17-year-old-invented-vetigel-stops-bleeding-instantly-2015-6 I think this is revolutionary. It will dramatically change how Healthcare is done.

There have been other threads on EM drive here before. This is the latest asserted confirmation of the technology, an article based upon a recent German paper. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11769030/Impossible-rocket-drive-works-and-could-get-to-Moon-in-four-hours.html

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/has-nasa-spotted-earths-twin-watch-live-announcement-here/54694/ Looks like we are getting closer and closer to finding exoplanets like Earth

The Chinese seem to be on top of this 3d printing. Cheap sturdy homes, worlds largest potential housing market, perhaps worth a few shares in "zhuoda group" . I just looked at Zhuoda's site, from what I can gather this is on the verge of taking of big time http://www.zhuoda.com/content/details12_6164.html

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have unravelled one of the mysteries of electromagnetism, which could enable the design of antennas small enough to be integrated into an electronic chip. These ultra-small antennas – the so-called ‘last frontier’ of semiconductor design – would be a massive leap forward for wireless communications. The researchers have proposed that electromagnetic waves are generated not only from the acceleration of electrons, but also from a phenomenon known as symmetry breaking. These new observations of radiation resulting from broken symmetry of the electric field may provide some link between the two fields. Team used thin fi…

The July 12 Science magazine has an article (p 1185, unfortunately I think it's behind a paywall) describing some results obtained by Wang Chengshan's team's sediment core drilling in the Songliao Basin. The drill samples have crossed the KT boundary and much of the Cretaceous below it, including the Deccan Traps eruptions. Their findings are startling - the Deccan Traps huge episodes of volcanism put the climate of the planet on a roller coaster leading into the KT asteroid event. The boost of CO2 from the most severe of the Deccan Trap volcanism episodes (there were several) apparently doubled atmospheric CO2 in less than 10,000 years, more than 1/20th of the cur…