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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Becomes Our Reality – Infertility is on the Rise
In the Emmy Award-winning new series The Handmaid’s Tale, a chilling new picture of a dystopian society emerges. Environmental contaminantsare causing decreased sperm production among men, couples having difficulty conceiving and children being born with numerous health concerns. When I first read Margaret Atwood’s book The Handmaid’s Tale in the 80’s, I thought it was a science fiction novel. Never did I imagine that … Continue reading
New Largest Prime Number Contains 23 Million Digits
Math is an extremely fascinating concept and holds the key to many mysteries…its powers and potential seem to push our human minds to the brink in a way similar to that of our grasp and understanding of the universe itself. via unexplained-mysteries: Prime numbers are an important mathematical concept. The ridiculously long number, like all prime numbers, can only be … Continue reading
Computer Chip Security Flaw Affects Virtually All Modern Devices
A Google-affiliated team of security analysts have announced that virtually all modern computers are vulnerable to hacking due to a set of security flaws in chips from three of the largest software makers. Chips from Intel, Arm Holdings and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) all contained the flaw, according to a new report from Alphabet, Inc.’s Google Project Zero, whose stated … Continue reading
China to Visit the Far Side of the Moon
China is set to become the first country to land a probe on the Moon’s far side. The ambitious mission, if successful, will achieve what no other country has ever managed to do. There have been dozens of missions to the Moon over the years, but the far side, which is always facing away from the Earth, remains mostly unexplored. … Continue reading
New Culprit Identified as Killer of the World’s Bees
It is easy to take this issue lightly but the eventual real world consequences are anything but light, they are DIRE! Via RT: Scientists have found what they believe to be the strongest factor leading to the worryingly steep decline of bumblebees… fungicides. The discovery has now been added to the growing list of threats that could potentially lead to … Continue reading
New Theory on What Happens Inside Black Holes Developed by Russian Physicists
Physicists from Moscow’s Steklov Institute of Mathematics have come up with a testable theory on how matter behaves inside a black hole. The researchers’ work, published in the September 2017 issue of the Journal of High Energy Physics, also proposes a theory that would reconcile quantum physics and the theory of general relativity, which describes gravity. “We used an approach … Continue reading
A Religion to ‘Raise’ and Worship ‘Artificial Intelligence God’ Started by Engineer
A SELF-DRIVING car engineer has created a religion based on creating and worshipping an Artificial Intelligence (AI) God. Anthony Levandowski, a Silicon Valley engineer, has established a church devoted to worshipping an AI construct. He intends to gather people together who are interested in creating AI that can surpass humans’ intellectual flexibility and cognitive skill. In an interview, Mr Levandowski … Continue reading
What Happens After We Invent AI Smarter Than Us?
Have we been worrying about the wrong thing this whole time? You can also read the transcript of the video: MAX TEGMARK: Hollywood movies make people worry about the wrong things in terms of super intelligence. What we should really worry about is not malice but competence, where we have machines that are smarter than us whose goals just aren’t … Continue reading
New Scanning Method Reveals Ancient Egyptian Scripts
Do you suppose there could be juicy secrets to be found in the scans of these ancient scripts such as documenting of alien lineage etc? via Sputniknews: Researchers in London have developed a new scanning technique which enables them to examine the inscriptions left on the papyruses used to wrap up mummies, without destroying their several thousand-year-old cases. A new … Continue reading
New Species of the World’s Largest Octopus Discovered by Scientists
Go ahead and add this to the list of creatures you wouldn’t want to bump into in the deep dark depths of the ocean! via RT: Seven years ago, researchers managed to obtain DNA evidence of an octopus which was genetically distinct from the giant Pacific octopus, ranging from California to Alaska to Japan. Scientists from Alaska Pacific University have … Continue reading
