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May 13

usatoday: That RoboCop statue for Detroit? It’s still really happening, and is about to be cast in bronze. More: http://on.freep.com/YRmmX9

usatoday:

That RoboCop statue for Detroit? It’s still really happening, and is about to be cast in bronze.

More: http://on.freep.com/YRmmX9

sunfoundation: How Half a Second of High Frequency Stock Trading Looks Like The movie shown below, developed by a real-time trading software developer Nanex, shows the stock trading activity in Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) as it occurred during a particular half a second on May 2, 2013.

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How Half a Second of High Frequency Stock Trading Looks Like

The movie shown below, developed by a real-time trading software developer Nanex, shows the stock trading activity in Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) as it occurred during a particular half a second on May 2, 2013.

latimes: Justice Department secretly taps into AP reporters’ phone records In a surprising declaration a short time ago, the Associated Press revealed that the Justice Department had obtained two months of phone records tied to numerous reporters and editors in various cities, in what the news organization is calling a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.” The reason for the government’s actions, which the AP was alerted to in a letter Friday, are as of now unknown. From the Associated Press’ story on the emerging scandal: In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters. AP’s President and CEO, Gary Pruitt, issued a strongly-worded letter to Attorney General Eric Holder: We regard this action by the Department of Justice as a serious interference with AP’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news. While we evaluate our options we urgently request that you immediately return to the AP the telephone toll records that the Department subpoenaed and destroy all copies. Read the full story via Politics Now. Photo: Molly Riley / Associated Press

latimes:

Justice Department secretly taps into AP reporters’ phone records

In a surprising declaration a short time ago, the Associated Press revealed that the Justice Department had obtained two months of phone records tied to numerous reporters and editors in various cities, in what the news organization is calling a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.”

The reason for the government’s actions, which the AP was alerted to in a letter Friday, are as of now unknown.

From the Associated Press’ story on the emerging scandal:

In all, the government seized those records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices whose phone records were targeted on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

AP’s President and CEO, Gary Pruitt, issued a strongly-worded letter to Attorney General Eric Holder:

We regard this action by the Department of Justice as a serious interference with AP’s constitutional rights to gather and report the news. While we evaluate our options we urgently request that you immediately return to the AP the telephone toll records that the Department subpoenaed and destroy all copies.
Read the full story via Politics Now.

Photo: Molly Riley / Associated Press

thenewenlightenmentage: Brain Frontal Lobes Not Sole Center of Human Intelligence, Comparative Research Suggests May 13, 2013 — Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain’s frontal lobes, say researchers. Research into the comparative size of the frontal lobes in humans and other species has determined that they are not — as previously thought — disproportionately enlarged relative to other areas of the brain, according to the most accurate and conclusive study of this area of the brain. Continue Reading

thenewenlightenmentage:

Brain Frontal Lobes Not Sole Center of Human Intelligence, Comparative Research Suggests

May 13, 2013 — Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain’s frontal lobes, say researchers.

Research into the comparative size of the frontal lobes in humans and other species has determined that they are not — as previously thought — disproportionately enlarged relative to other areas of the brain, according to the most accurate and conclusive study of this area of the brain.

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breakingnews: Bulldozer destroys Mayan pyramid in Belize AP: A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday. The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.

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Bulldozer destroys Mayan pyramid in Belize

AP:

A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.

The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.

May 12

A Momentary Flow: UK scientists 'develop superwheat' -

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British scientists at a research centre in Cambridge say they have developed a new type of wheat which could increase productivity by 30%.

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The Cambridge-based National Institute of Agricultural Botany has combined an ancient…

guardian: Marie Curie - the first woman to win a Nobel and the first person to win two separate Nobels, Curie (1867-1934) was born in Poland and won her first Nobel in 1903 with husband, Pierre, for discovering radioactivity. However, she was not allowed to participate in the keynote lecture winners give because she was a woman. After Pierre died in a road accident in 1906, she won her second Nobel in 1911 for discovering radium, though an attempt was made to rescind it when news emerged of her affair with married colleague Paul Langevin. After collecting the prize, Curie was pilloried by the French press. Langevin was ignored. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

guardian:

Marie Curie - the first woman to win a Nobel and the first person to win two separate Nobels, Curie (1867-1934) was born in Poland and won her first Nobel in 1903 with husband, Pierre, for discovering radioactivity. However, she was not allowed to participate in the keynote lecture winners give because she was a woman. After Pierre died in a road accident in 1906, she won her second Nobel in 1911 for discovering radium, though an attempt was made to rescind it when news emerged of her affair with married colleague Paul Langevin. After collecting the prize, Curie was pilloried by the French press. Langevin was ignored.

Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

thisistheverge: Greg Klerkx – Living in space ‘One day’ is the sustaining trope of today’s astropreneurs, and it is mother’s milk to the clever engineers and researchers at NASA and the European Space Agency, who continue to churn out studies and CGI animations pushing, ever pushing, for a humans-in-space future. 

thisistheverge:

Greg Klerkx – Living in space

‘One day’ is the sustaining trope of today’s astropreneurs, and it is mother’s milk to the clever engineers and researchers at NASA and the European Space Agency, who continue to churn out studies and CGI animations pushing, ever pushing, for a humans-in-space future. 

cnce: Thermal invisibility cloak in first demonstration Researchers have built and tested a form of invisibility cloak that can hide objects from heat.Similar cloaking efforts are underway to make objects invisible to light and even sound waves, but this is the first device to work with heat.The prototype, to be outlined in Physical Review Letters, contained a 5cm-wide flat region impervious to heat flowing around it.The technology could be put to use in thermal management in electronics. via futurescope [read more @bbc] [via @livingarchitect] [paper]

cnce:

Thermal invisibility cloak in first demonstration

Researchers have built and tested a form of invisibility cloak that can hide objects from heat.Similar cloaking efforts are underway to make objects invisible to light and even sound waves, but this is the first device to work with heat.The prototype, to be outlined in Physical Review Letters, contained a 5cm-wide flat region impervious to heat flowing around it.The technology could be put to use in thermal management in electronics.

via futurescope [read more @bbc] [via @livingarchitect] [paper]

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