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Man Creates The First Ever Leaf That Turns Light and Water Into Oxygenyoutube.com
If humanity hopes to realize its dreams of exploring the stars, we're going to need to find ways to recreate life on Earth aboard a spaceship. Simply stockpi... -
The First Man-Made Biological Leafsciencedump.com
RCA graduate Julian Melchiorri says the synthetic biological leaf he developed, which absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant, could enable long-distance space travel. -
<p>So I’m fine with AI, because I don’t believe in it in the usual way it is interpreted, as machine consciousness. I don’t think that will happen, because brains and machines are very different...ayjay.tumblr.com
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Entry Point of JPMorgan Data Breach Is Identifieddealbook.nytimes.com
The weak spot at JPMorgan appears to have been a fairly simple two-step password system that was neglected, leading to a major security breach this summer. - nikic.github.io
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Four Charts That Defined the World in 2014 - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Here are four charts that reveal trends with particularly far-reaching implications for the global economy. -
Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers | WIREDwired.com
A year after tackling how close together prime number pairs can stay, mathematicians have now made the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart primes can be. -
IRAS-Based Whole-Sky Upper Limit on Dyson Spheres - Abstract - The Astrophysical Journal - IOPscienceiopscience.iop.org
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical construct of a star purposely shrouded by a cloak of broken-up planetary material to better utilize all of the stellar energy. A clean Dyson sphere identification would give a significant signature for intelligence at w... -
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How Good Was Napoleon? | History Todayhistorytoday.com
By 1805, the year that Napoleon became sole head of state and supreme warlord of France, the notion of strategy was recognizably modern. Joly de Maizeroy had written in Théories de la Guerre (1777): ‘Strategy ... - alexschroeder.ch
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Dec 23: JMAP — A better way to emailblog.fastmail.com
This blog post is part of the FastMail 2014 Advent Calendar. The previous post on 22nd December was the long awaited beta of contact syncing. Stay tuned for the final post tomorrow! Technical level...