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Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment

Please don't cast a vote based just on the domain – do read the article.

Used heavily in early medicine and at times for opposing aims, the pomegranate shows a marked versatility in its cultural connotations and connections.

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People in small village of Jaškovo celebrate after re-claiming Guinness world record with line of almost 9,000 baked strudels

‘If it’s taking longer, ask yourself why.’

Mice turning tiny steering wheels to move shapes on a screen have helped scientists produce the first brain-wide map of decision-making at single-cell resolution in a mammal. In two Nature papers published Sept. 3, an international team of 22 groups, co-led by three Princeton University neuroscience labs, charted the activity of more than 600,000 neurons as mice performed a decision-making task. The resulting dataset offers an unprecedented view of how distributed neural networks work together across the brain to guide behavior.

Wouldn't it be great if the plants in your home could do more than just sit there looking pretty? Researchers at South China Agricultural University in the city of Guangzhou have found a way to upgrade them into soft glowing night lights in a range of hues, with the use of nanoparticles.

For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, they’ve found the “missing link,” and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250827153505/https://www.404media.co/scientists-make-breakthrough-in-solving-the-mystery-of-lifes-origin/

Socialists accept that some degree of inequality may be inevitable in a complex society. But there’s one kind of inequality that’s intolerable: the kind where resources are allocated according to factors that individuals can’t control.

The origin of the Bill of Rights was less a principled and honorable declaration of the founders’ commitment to fundamental liberties and more a compromise to get the states to ratify the new Constitution of the United States.

Of special interest to Americans, of course.

A half century ago ago, Benoit Mandelbrot coined the word “fractal” and pioneered a new type of geometry.

As if hard vacuum, intense cosmic radiation, corrosive dust, meteors, and temperatures whiplashing hundreds of degrees between night and day weren't enough, personnel at future Moon bases will be at significant peril from moonquakes.

Abstract:

Groups that argue for postponing the necessary action and groups that deny climate science altogether come from different traditions, but can also co-exist and arguably even strengthen each other. This chapter investigates the case of Norway, where the dominant view on oil and gas production – which acknowledges that climate change is primarily caused by humans, but says that Norway can both produce more oil and gas and contribute to saving the planet – exists side by side with a more classical denialist position. The chapter shows how these views co-exist even within the Norwegian far-right Progress Party (Fremskrittspartiet), which comes from a classical denialist position but needed to officially accept the Norwegian fossil ideology of delay in order to be accepted by the Conservative Party as a governing coalition partner. When in government, between 2013 and 2020, denialism nonetheless remained a strong tendency within the party. It is argued that these two positions ca

Synchron shows a man navigating an iPad using only his brain, made possible by a BCI implant and Apple’s new native brain input support.

To keep solar power stations from getting lazy, Sandia National Laboratories scientist John Sandusky is looking to give heliostat mirrors a side hustle. At the National Solar Thermal Test Facility he's experimenting with getting them to hunt for asteroids at night.

Something fundamental has shifted in how power works, and most of our institutions haven't noticed. ... a growing gap between how fast some actors can change the world and how fast others can respond to those changes.

short read, very interesting observations and aspects about current power dynamics.