An incresingly popular scientific enome re-writting tool. Might prevent future generations from being born with some types of disorders or disabilities!
Also, for fun, can be looked at one step closer to having a real wolverine..
this is a gold mine :D
Portugal, a bankrupt country in crisis where the Most Searched How to... is "Como emagrecer" (how to lose weight?).
Netherlands, where the Most Searched How to... is "Hoe overleef ik" (how do I survive?)
UK where the most Trending What is... is "What is love?"
and Italians... please explain how come the top Trending How to... are
1. Come fare Sesso
2. Come fare un Clistere
!?!?
Respect for Austria though, where the top trending What is... are:
1. Was ist ACTA
2. Was ist SOPA
any other interesting finds?
From Ghana "What is...?":
What is a Constitution
What is Government
[edit] Some top Science searches in the US: Hemorrhoid, Pregnancy Syndroms. Any potential for Ariadna?
[edit] ... and finally, for the sake of my shield, top search from Poland in the Music category
During one of these meetings I asked directly whether the government would move to close down the Guardian's reporting through a legal route - by going to court to force the surrender of the material on which we were working. The official confirmed that, in the absence of handover or destruction, this was indeed the government's intention. Prior restraint, near impossible in the US, was now explicitly and imminently on the table in the UK. But my experience over WikiLeaks - the thumb drive and the first amendment - had already prepared me for this moment. I explained to the man from Whitehall about the nature of international collaborations and the way in which, these days, media organisations could take advantage of the most permissive legal environments. Bluntly, we did not have to do our reporting from London. Already most of the NSA stories were being reported and edited out of New York. And had it occurred to him that Greenwald lived in Brazil?
The man was unmoved. And so one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred - with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents. "We can call off the black helicopters," joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.
Whitehall was satisfied, but it felt like a peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism that understood nothing about the digital age. We will continue to do patient, painstaking reporting on the Snowden documents, we just won't do it in London. The seizure of Miranda's laptop, phones, hard drives and camera will similarly have no effect on Greenwald's work.
The state that is building such a formidable apparatus of surveillance will do its best to prevent journalists from reporting on it. Most journalists can see that. But I wonder how many have truly understood
Sarah Harrison is a lawyer that has been staying with Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow. She is a UK citizen and her family is there. After the miranda case where the boyfriend of the reporter was detained at the airport, can Sarah return safely home? Will her family be pressured by the secret service?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23759834
ESA's article on the consequences for ISS:
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM6GJUTTRG_index_0.html
What is not clear is if the rocket that failed is the same variant as used in manned missions.
[Edit]
According to this article:
http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?pg=3&id=268437
"The first and second stages of the Soyuz-FG space rocket used for manned launches differ from those of the Soyuz-U, but the third stage [the one that failed - MR] is identical in both rockets".
Thus the stay of astronauts currently at ISS may prolong a little bit.
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Heads will fall in ESRIN... And now I know who crashed my computations on sophia ;-)
[Edit] A lesson for everyone: look at the file with email passwords and see how many you are able to guess even though they're supposed to be scrambled by removing a middle part...
[Edit] And a hilarious quote from the hacker's "about me":
"I had another blog, more exactly www.tinkode.baywords.com but I forgot the password, so now I created this one."
quite well-reputed, they were founded as the American Association for AI (and only recently cahnged it to be more international). They are partly organizing IJCAI and the AAAI conferences (mostly in the US), which are quite good. Symposia around specific topics are also done and at those mostly professors and researchers with high impact are going.
Thanks Juxi. was contacted by one of the organisers for the Berlin edition of it in 2 years. looking at your answer, it seems having the ACT associated to it is not a bad idea. will check with the team. Would you yourself be interested?
Implementation of the deep learning-based image classifier (online).
Try making a picture with your phone and upload it there. Pretty impressive results.
EDIT: Okay, it works the best with well exposed simple objects (pen, mug).
"scientists at Harvard University say they've modified the CRISPR method so it can be used to effectively reverse mutations involving changes in one letter of the genetic code. That's important because two-thirds of genetic illness in humans involve mutations where there's a change in a single letter."
What stroke me especially was the shape of the Marianas Trench (much wider than deep)
[edit] This reminds me I used to have a printout of a similar, but more space-related, comic http://xkcd.com/482/ hanging on the wall next to my desk in estec... good ol' times...
From my favourite, "applied science" series...
"If you've ever had one too many and tumbled into bed with a vision, only to be greeted in the morning by a sight you'd gnaw off your own arm to escape, take heart".
[Edit] Ah, and before you suggest this is AFD hoax, here's the ref:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22260359
Aerographite. This post was originally published on Mashable. German scientists have developed a sturdy material called Aerographite made mostly of air, opening up huge implications for the future development of electronics. The jet-black, non-transparent porous carbon material - which was created by scientists at Kiel University and Hamburg University of Technology - was detailed in the July edition of scientific journal Advanced Materials .