The Skeptical Community

A mostly unthoughtful opinion on AI
I, for one, do not welcome our new robot overlords.

Let me elaborate.

Writing about Artificial Intelligence is...

So what are you doing? I'm putting my telescope on the sidewalk and probably not blinding the kiddos.

Also all participants will receive one of these

This is SCIENCE!

Synopsis: You can easily drug people into not giving a shit about anything, therefore racism can be eliminated pharmaceutically....

Look what I found.

Enjoy! :coolspecs:

What's going on with bitcoin...

CNET: Bitcoin Cash Splits In Two In Blockchain Feud

Can someone who understands this better comment on the...

On Valentine's day, they attached red mylar heart balloons to each desk. Out of a perverse curiosity I have simply left mine there to see how long it...

It is now technically possible and the concept has been experimentally proven:

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.

The first known attempt at...

This is weird. And not at all what I expected.

As I was watching, I was struck by how much the conversation resembled some of the interactions on...

They could have just called it a large factory, but gigafactory sounds cooler.

Apparently they are going to make it in Nevada (congrats Nyar!)

Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei for the First Time

A new technology for detecting neutrinos represents a “monumental” advance...

To create the bell curves, Dr. Hansen and two colleagues compared actual summer temperatures for each decade since the 1980s to a fixed baseline...

After the invention of RollerBlades™ (inline roller skates), a new word was needed to refer to all those old style roller skates that are not inline...

Exclusive: CNN witnesses US Navy's drone-killing laser

I know it's been deployed since 2014 but it is back in the news.

Has a 1 mile range....

Chipotle will stop serving GMO foods — despite zero evidence they're harmful to eat

Chipotle Wants to Sell “Food With Integrity.” Dropping GMOs Is...

Well this is scary:

Gene drive is a molecular technique that slips a new gene into an organism and guarantees that it will be inherited by...

Won by a lady, Maryam Mirzakhani, hooray! The old dungeon crumbles…

But not everywhere:

standard picture:

retouched to preserve the...

This one is for DJI drone owners who are also code monkeys, otherwise this article will either be amusing or incredibly boring.

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Hackers...

Cuts through watermelons.

I searched the forum for bitcoin and apparently there is some interest in this topic, so here's a recent news item:

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Don't panic, but...

I got to this via PZ Myers.

I'll note first that PZ tore into this guy as being an anti-intellectual reverse-snob, whatever the fuck that is.

But...

Summary

Quantum entanglement has moved out of this world and into space. In a study that shows China's growing mastery of both the quantum world...

Scientists confirmed Wednesday that a much anticipated break at the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has occurred, unleashing a massive iceberg that...

Abstract

The population extinction pulse we describe here shows, from a quantitative viewpoint, that Earth’s sixth mass extinction is more severe...

About the Museum

The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging...

Billionaire Mark Cuban says never stop learning:
Here are the 2 things he is studying now
Catherine Clifford, Tuesday, 27 Jun 2017 | 1:53 PM ET...

Overpopulated and
Underfed: Countries
Near a Breaking Point

By BILL MARSH JUNE 15, 2017

Mass migration, starvation, civil unrest: Overpopulation...

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The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Wednesday that courts may consider vaccines to be the cause of an illness, even in the absence of...

Mildly interesting. Total energy use seems to be leveling off. CO2 emissions flat. Coal mining is really starting to decline. Especially in China....

Zhao Chuang: Meet the man who brings dinosaurs to life

BEIJING (CNN) -- If you came to this Beijing warehouse at night it would be downright...

Twelve new types of cloud - including the rare, wave-like asperitas cloud - have been recognised for the first time by the International Cloud Atlas....

Fuck him. Fuck the wheelchair he rode in on.

I'm sick of hearing about him and Ted Talks science shows.

If he were right here, right now, I'd kick...

Well, not quite yet:
‘Doomsday’ seed vault meant to survive global disasters breached by climate change

The seed bank designed to preserve the...

Interesting article in Science about DNA analysis. Excerpt:
Despite their tales of origin, most people are the mixed descendants of many migrations....

THIS! IS! SCIENCE ! :coolspecs:

Is sociopolitical egalitarianism related to bodily and facial formidability in men?
Evolution and Human Behavior...

I got yer flying car right here:

If you still feel like you were somehow “promised” flying cars based on Popular Science magazine covers in the...

So what are you doing? I'm putting my telescope on the sidewalk and probably not blinding the kiddos.

Paleodictyon is a pattern, usually interpreted to be a burrow, which appears in the geologic marine record beginning in the Precambrian/Early...

Great new technology for you FOR SALE NOW.

:lmao:

Ben-Gurion U. researchers develop membranes that remove viruses from drinking water
American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Press...

The last time they did this was 2002.

The first thing I checked was if Dark Korea got any better.

Nope.

Lawrence Livermore Labs release videos of previously classified videos of bomb tests. Simultaneously horrifying and Wow how fucking cool is that.

I'll kick things off with this one. 8)

Hubble spots auroras on Uranus
Science Daily

Ever since Voyager 2 beamed home spectacular images of the planets in the 1980s, planet-lovers have...

In search for unseen dark matter, physicists turn to shadow realm

Scientists hunting unseen dark matter are looking deeper into the shadows. With...

Princess Anne comes out strongly in favour of GM, no doubt infuriating her brother.

Princess Anne has said genetically-modified crops have...

It's just two related animal studies. There may be others of which I'm not aware.

tl;dr: Some radiation may be good for you. Statistically...

The fan is a nice touch.

Vibrator users will receive $10,000 each after company tracked their sexual activity
Market Watch

These sex toy customers are happy, but not for...