Non-IT News Thread
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In the running for best headline of 2019...
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@coliver really Florida. . .
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver Why on earth would they have been sober in New Orleans on new year's eve?
Maybe they are devout Christians.
That doesn't necessarily make them sober. Unless they are so devout that they had to dry hump on live TV.
Yes, my line was a clever joke.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
In the running for best headline of 2019...
And that's how they all got the herpes!
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Actually 90% of humans have herpes (according to Adam Ruins Everything), so it is pretty virulent anyway.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Actually 90% of humans have herpes (according to Adam Ruins Everything), so it is pretty virulent anyway.
They have some form of herpes. Turns out most herpes don't actually present with any symptoms... so you most likely wouldn't know if you had a strain of it or not.
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"Early last year, Johnson and colleagues published a study estimating that about 25 percent of Florida’s population of free-wheeling monkeys carries the deadly virus, known as macacine herpesvirus 1 (McHV-1), herpes B, or monkey B virus"
You've heard of "Monkey See, Monkey Do", well this is Monkey B, Monkey Poo
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Actually 90% of humans have herpes (according to Adam Ruins Everything), so it is pretty virulent anyway.
They have some form of herpes. Turns out most herpes don't actually present with any symptoms... so you most likely wouldn't know if you had a strain of it or not.
Correct, one of the two strains of human herpes. And nearly no one gets any known symptoms (meaning symptoms that they know about.)
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China makes history by landing on the far side of the Moon
Soon—if not already—the lander will deploy a rover named Yutu II.
According to state media, a Beijing-based control center commanded the spacecraft to begin the landing procedure at 9:15pm ET Monday (10:15am, Tuesday, local time), from an altitude of 15km above the lunar surface. During an 11-minute descent, Chang'e-4 slowed its speed from 1.7 km/s to nearly zero before it landed in the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin. This is in the mid-southern latitudes of the Moon on its far side; it should offer important scientific information about Earth and the early Solar System.
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Army campaign targets 'snowflake' millennials
The Army has unveiled its latest recruitment campaign - with posters targeting 'snowflakes', 'millennials' and 'selfie addicts'. But how does it compare with previous recruitment drives?
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Machine learning can offer new tools, fresh insights for the humanities
From the French Revolution to the history of the novel, Big Data makes its mark
Specifically, rhetorical innovations by key influential figures (like Robespierre) played a critical role in persuading others to accept what were, at the time, audacious principles of governance, according to co-author Simon DeDeo, a former physicist who now applies mathematical techniques to the study of historical and current cultural phenomena. And the cutting-edge machine learning methods he developed to reach that conclusion are now being employed by other scholars of history and literature.
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Bandersnatch: The spoiler-filled, choose-your-own-opinion review
This review's structure was inspired by Netflix's solid rewind-and-try-again film.
After catching up on post-holiday news and emails, Ars staffers got together in our staff chat room to talk about Netflix's weirdest one-off film yet: Bandersnatch, the Black Mirror "event" that launched on December 28. We'd all seen it, some alone and others in groups, and we all felt a mix of delight, confusion, and annoyance by the fact that it required us to grab our remotes and make choices throughout its 90-minute runtime. (Each choice leads to varying outcomes that range from minor to severe.)
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Fixing photosynthesis by engineering it to recycle a toxic mistake
The worst, most important enzyme often uses the wrong chemical. We fixed that.
The vast majority of life on Earth depends, either directly or indirectly, on photosynthesis for its energy. And photosynthesis depends on an enzyme called RuBisCO, which uses carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to build sugars. So, by extension, RuBisCO may be the most important catalyst on the planet.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Fixing photosynthesis by engineering it to recycle a toxic mistake
The worst, most important enzyme often uses the wrong chemical. We fixed that.
The vast majority of life on Earth depends, either directly or indirectly, on photosynthesis for its energy. And photosynthesis depends on an enzyme called RuBisCO, which uses carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to build sugars. So, by extension, RuBisCO may be the most important catalyst on the planet.
I read that article and while I can see their point. I also wish they italicized the word "fixed" since they aren't 100% certain what this change will/would affect.
Just that it's more efficient.
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Milky Way to face a one-two punch of galaxy collisions
The Large Magellanic Cloud will hit us before Andromeda can get here.
If our knowledge of galaxy structures was limited to the Milky Way, we'd get a lot of things wrong. The Milky Way, it turns out, is unusual. It's got a smaller central black hole than other galaxies its size; its halo is also smaller and contains less of the heavier elements. Fortunately, we've now looked at enough other galaxies to know that ours is a bit of an oddball. What's been less clear is why.
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The next Alien project will be a mixed-media experience in 2019
A single tweet suggests something interactive about this year's return to Nostromo.
20th Century Fox announced the next project, or possible projects, in the Alien universe on Saturday by way of a vague and tantalizing social-media post. This next Alien universe release, slated for a "2019" launch, includes a "read, watch, play" promise, suggesting a mixed-media launch whose various parts could commingle.
Its interactive aspects will be paid off, at the very least, by the protagonist already named in the above teaser: Amanda Ripley. This character, the daughter of Sigourney Weaver's character Ellen Ripley, featured prominently in the 2014 video game Alien Isolation. In that game, the younger Ripley was tasked with uncovering mysteries on a Weyland-Yutani craft called the Sevastopol.
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There’s suspense but little magic in new teasers for Amazon’s Hanna
Esme Creed-Miles of Dark River fame takes on the titular role.
Not everyone was a fan of Director Joe Wright's 2011 film Hanna, with its strange mix of revenge thriller and dark coming-of-age fairytale. But it's one of my recent favorites for precisely those elements, driven by an exquisitely unsettling performance by Saoirse Ronan in the titular role. Now Amazon Prime is adapting the film into a series, written by David Farr, who co-wrote the original screenplay. Two teasers have arrived over the last few days, giving us our first look at the adaptation. There's plenty of suspense, as befits the thriller genre, but little of the original's magic.
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Mads Mikkelsen goes full-on John Wick in new trailer for Netflix’s Polar
He rocks a stylin' eyepatch and nifty laser gloves that control his machine guns.
The film is based on a webcomic by Victor Santos featuring an international hitman named Kaiser Black. Santos considered his work a mix of classic Marvel comics (especially Jim Steranko's S.H.I.E.L.D. comics), Jason Bourne movies, and manga. The webcomic, which debuted in 2012, didn't even have dialogue, mostly because Santos wasn't keen on translating the comic from Spanish to English. Dark Horse Comics produced a hardcover graphic novel entitled Polar: Came From the Cold in 2013, adding dialogue in speech balloons. Two more Polar volumes appeared in 2015 (Eye for an Eye) and 2016 (No Mercy for Sister Maria). A fourth and final volume, The Kaiser Falls, is slated to be released this April.
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Archaeologists discover first known temple to “flayed god” Xipe Totec
It’s as macabre and as fascinating as you’d expect.
Xipe Totec is a god of agricultural renewal. Worshipped with human sacrifice, his priests wore the victims’ skins as ceremonial attire. Statues and carvings of Xipe Totec have turned up at archaeological sites scattered all over Mexico and Central America, but archaeologists with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) say they’ve found the first known temple dedicated to the god. Preliminary dating suggests the temple saw use from 1000 to 1260 CE, which suggests that it was built before the rise of Aztec culture.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Archaeologists discover first known temple to “flayed god” Xipe Totec
It’s as macabre and as fascinating as you’d expect.
Xipe Totec is a god of agricultural renewal. Worshipped with human sacrifice, his priests wore the victims’ skins as ceremonial attire. Statues and carvings of Xipe Totec have turned up at archaeological sites scattered all over Mexico and Central America, but archaeologists with Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) say they’ve found the first known temple dedicated to the god. Preliminary dating suggests the temple saw use from 1000 to 1260 CE, which suggests that it was built before the rise of Aztec culture.
Everything wrong with Mexico according to Donald J Trump, look at these people, they wear the skin of others to appease some god . . . .
