Thought the premise of this story might be useful one day when we confront an extraterrestrial alien.
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When Shipping Containers Sink in the Drink | The New Yorker
July 2, 2022Great article. Amazing that you can use lost containers of sneakers to study ocean currents.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/when-shipping-containers-sink-in-the-drink legos lost at sea
Cloud labs: where robots do the research
June 26, 2022Might be a boon for bioinformatics!
Mapping the Migration of the World’s Millionaires
June 25, 2022Great Viz! Predictably, Switzerland is popular too.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/migration-of-millionaires-worldwide-2022/
The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia | Nature
June 23, 2022https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04800-3
Great analysis of ancient (microbial) DNA!
Get law enforcement out of biospecimen authentication
June 18, 2022https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo5386
Not sure how meaningful this proposal is given how trivial it is to identify cell lines and individuals via sequencing. Moreover, it seems like it is trying to create “artificial silos” between research and law enforcement communities.
DEBRA J. H. MATHEWS AND NATALIE RAM
SCIENCE 16 Jun 2022
Vol 376, Issue 6599
pp. 1274-1276
DOI: 10.1126/science.abo5386
The brain-reading devices helping paralysed people to move, talk and touch
June 11, 2022QT:{{”
Finally, there is widespread acknowledgement that ethical oversight must keep pace with this rapidly evolving technology. BCIs present multiple concerns, from privacy to personal autonomy. Ethicists stress that users must retain full control of the devices’ outputs. And although current technologies cannot decode people’s private thoughts, developers will have records of users’ every communication, and crucial data about their brain health. Moreover, BCIs present a new type of cybersecurity risk.
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Great article. Amazing technology. But I am worried about the long-term #privacy implications of real mind-reading devices.
Covid at Home: Why Only Some People Test Positive – The New York Times
June 11, 2022Interesting article, but is this realistic: “people who have had two or three vaccine doses should test once they start developing symptoms but continue to test on day four or five of symptoms, as tests that come back negative before then may be falsely reassuring.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/well/live/covid-testing-household-transmission.html
The Era of Borderless Data Is Ending – The New York Times
June 9, 2022https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/technology/data-privacy-laws.html
Liked the article & esp. the quote: “The core idea of digital sovereignty is that the digital exhaust created by a person…should be stored inside the country where it originated, or at least handled in accordance with privacy & other standards set by a government.”
However, shouldn’t a person (“a digital sovereign”?) have the right to store their data where they see fit – e.g. in another country from where they are?
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