A Blockchain Explainer
"It’s easy to become enchanted with the dizzying profits being made with
BitCoin, and with the elegance of the mathematics beneath it. But it’s
dangerous to forget that the point of these systems is to bring the
political power of common knowledge into the Internet age, together with
all of its potential for disruption and conflict"
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Via: Nautilus
h/t
Illuminati Unlimited
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Thursday, November 30, 2017
The Women's Hockey Star Fighting to Grow the Game
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For the next six years, Johnson followed in Julie’s footsteps. With no girl’s youth hockey club within an hour of her home in LA, she played with the boys. But once her mother, Kelli, a former collegiate basketball player, realized hockey was more than a phase, road trips became part of the family rhythm. “I knew she was serious when she gave up all her other sports,” Kelli tells OZY. “She was an amazing soccer player and was on her way to a black belt in Hapkido, but she gave that up.”
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Via: OZY
10 of the Most Covered Songs in Music History
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Via: Mental Floss
Monday, November 27, 2017
What If Consciousness Doesn't Drive the Mind?
It’s easy to assume that these contents of consciousness are somehow
chosen, caused or controlled by our personal awareness – after all,
thoughts don’t exist until until we think them. But in a new research paper in Frontiers of Psychology, Peter Halligan & David A Oakley argue that this is a mistake.
They suggest that our personal awareness does not create, cause or choose our beliefs, feelings or perceptions. Instead, the contents of consciousness are generated “behind the scenes” by fast, efficient, non-conscious systems in our brains. All this happens without any interference from our personal awareness, which sits passively in the passenger seat while these processes occur.
Put simply, we don’t consciously choose our thoughts or our feelings – we become aware of them.
LINK
Via: Real Clear Science
They suggest that our personal awareness does not create, cause or choose our beliefs, feelings or perceptions. Instead, the contents of consciousness are generated “behind the scenes” by fast, efficient, non-conscious systems in our brains. All this happens without any interference from our personal awareness, which sits passively in the passenger seat while these processes occur.
Put simply, we don’t consciously choose our thoughts or our feelings – we become aware of them.
LINK
Via: Real Clear Science
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
The Serial-Killer Detector
"Thomas Hargrove is a homicide archivist. For the past seven years, he has
been collecting municipal records of murders, and he now has the
largest catalogue of killings in the country—751,785 murders carried out
since 1976, which is roughly twenty-seven thousand more than appear in
F.B.I. files. States are supposed to report murders to the Department of
Justice, but some report inaccurately, or fail to report altogether,
and Hargrove has sued some of these states to obtain their records.
Using computer code he wrote, he searches his archive for statistical
anomalies among the more ordinary murders resulting from lovers’
triangles, gang fights, robberies, or brawls. Each year, about five
thousand people kill someone and don’t get caught, and a percentage of
these men and women have undoubtedly killed more than once. Hargrove
intends to find them with his code, which he sometimes calls a
serial-killer detector."
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Via: The New Yorker
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Via: The New Yorker
Getting a Dog May Save Your Life
Having a dog can bring a lot of love into your life. It could also make it last a little longer. A group of academics from Uppsala University in Sweden analyzed the
health records of 3.4 million people in that northern European country,
where databases contain detailed information on everyone’s
hospitalizations, medical history and even whether they own a dog. Such
detailed records made it relatively easy to suss out the impact of
having a canine companion. People in possession of a pooch were less likely to have cardiovascular
disease or die from any cause during the 12 years covered by the
research, according to the study published in Scientific Reports.
LINK
Via: Bloomberg
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Via: Bloomberg
Monday, November 20, 2017
10 Things That Will Put Hair on Your Chest
In the link below Brett McKay, creator of the Art of Manliness, highlights ten of the most common things we were told as boys
would put hair on our chests (but actually don’t). We hope it will help
further the tradition of benign parental cons (i.e., Santa Claus, tooth
fairy, “your face will stay that way if you make it for too long,” etc.,
etc.).
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Via: Art of Manliness
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Via: Art of Manliness
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