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The Future of Personal Satellite Technology Is Here – Are We Ready for It?

Technology
Cubesat Satellite

How can we be sure that hobbyists aren’t launching their own “spy” satellite, or deploying low-cost CubeSat networks that could be used nefariously?

Sylvia Plath’s New Short Story Was Never Lost – So Why Is the Media Saying It Was Just Discovered?

Arts

“Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom” has been preserved – and has been accessible to the public – at Indiana University’s Lilly Library.

Five Options for Brexit Trade Explained

Politics

Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement, a no-deal Brexit, staying in the customs union, staying in the single market, and the so-called Common Market 2.0 idea.

China’s Sponge Cities Aim to Re-Use 70% of Rainwater – Here’s How

Politics

China’s sponge city initiative has an ambitious goal: by 2020, 80% of urban areas should absorb and re-use at least 70% of rainwater.

Why the U.S. Rejects International Criminal Justice: Looking Back at Nuremberg

Politics
Nuremberg trials: Goering

Faced with U.S. rejection of international criminal justice, supporters of the ICC usually invoke the precedent of the Nuremberg Trials.

Austerity Has Pushed the UK’s Poorest Households Further Into Debt – Here’s How

Politics

Debt is a growing problem for people on low incomes and it has been made worse by the austerity policies that followed the 2007-08 financial crisis.

Backgrounder: What We Know About Indonesia’s 1965 Anti-Communist Purge

History

In less than 48 hours, Suharto had roundly defeated the 30th September Movement. At about the same time, the abductees’ bodies were found in an old well in an area known as Lubang Buaya (Crocodile Hole) in east Jakarta.

Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and the Thorny Issue of Robot Rights

Technology

McEwan questions what it means to be human – if these machines are just like me, does that mean they have rights, like me?

Every Dog Has Its Day, but It’s Not the Fourth of July

Misc

The Fourth of July can be a miserable day for dogs. That’s because dogs are hardwired to be afraid of sudden, loud noises.

From Miniature Satellites To Giant Sun Shields – the Extreme Technology Transforming Space Engineering

Technology

While Apollo was an example of engineering on a heroic scale, future space ventures can deliver lasting societal benefits beyond flags and footprints.

Neoliberalism Has Tricked Us Into Believing a Fairytale About Where Money Comes From

Politics
Money Bank Notes

There is nothing natural about money. There is no link to some scarce essential form of money that sets a limit to its creation.

I Build Mathematical Programs That Could Discover the Drugs of the Future

Science

Discovering a new drug is one of the most challenging tasks in biology. It takes over 10 years and about US$2.6 billion to bring an average drug to market.

The Guts of an Apple iPhone Show Exactly What Trump Gets Wrong About Trade

Technology
iphone factory foxconn

A better way of thinking about the U.S.-China trade deficit associated with one iPhone would be to only count the value added in China, $8.50, rather than the $240 that shows up as a Chinese import to the U.S.

U.S. Poverty Statistics Ignore Millions of Struggling Americans

Politics

16 million Americans are struggling, yet they do not show up on poverty line monitoring radar screens and may not be eligible for assistance programs.

Long Hours at the Office Could Be Killing You – the Case for a Shorter Working Week

Politics

UK employees have the longest working week in the European Union. But this does not make the UK a more productive nation.

Baseball Teams Need To Protect Fans From Foul Balls

Sports

Injuries occur much more frequently than many may realize. A 2014 analysis found that more than 1,750 fans are hurt each year by batted balls at MLB games.

Why Credit Rating Agencies Are Still Getting Away With Bad Behavior

Politics

The dominant credit rating agencies – S&P, Moody’s and Fitch – have been accused of faults including: false ratings, flawed methodology, and political bias.

With Cryptocurrency Launch, Facebook Sets Its Path Toward Becoming an Independent Nation

Technology

“Like all enterprise DLT it is blockchain in name only and an monopoly to extract massive seignorage from billions of users. A monopoly scam” says Roubini.

How Quebec Got 80 per Cent of Fathers to Take Paternity Leave

Geography

Today, 80 per cent of Quebec fathers get a paternity leave when a child arrives so they can help care for their little one for several weeks.

Rory Stewart: Spies Have a Long History of Becoming Politicians

Politics

One of the surprises of the contest to become leader of the Conservative Party – and with it prime minister – has been the candidacy of Rory Stewart.

Most of US Drug Arrests Involve a Gram or Less

Politics

Roughly two out of every three arrests by state and local law enforcement target small-time offenders who are carrying less than a gram of illegal drugs.

Statistics Ruined Baseball by Perfecting It

Sports
Baseball, Mookie Betts, Red Sox

Since sportswriter Henry Chadwick popularized the box score in the 19th century, baseball fans have had a love affair with statistics.

Soviet-Era Treatment Could Be the New Weapon Against Antibiotic Resistance

Science
soviet

Every year an increasing number of health tourists are travelling to Eastern bloc countries to receive an old Soviet medical treatment.

AI Develops Human-Like Number Sense – Taking Us a Step Closer To Building Machines With General Intelligence

Technology

In a new study, a deep neural network was trained for simple visual object detection spontaneously developed this kind of number sense.

Chelsea Is Using Our Artificial Intelligence Research for Smarter Football Coaching

Sports
Chelsea FC stamford bridge

Researchers are working with Chelsea football academy to develop a system to measure decision-making skills using artificial intelligence (AI).

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