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Japanese researchers observed the bizarre mating behaviour in a species called Chromodoris reticulata, which is found in the Pacific Ocean. They believe this is the first creature known that can repeatedly copulate with what they describe as a "disposable penis". The study is published in the Royal Society's journal Biology Letters. Male and female The sex life of the sea slug is complicated even before detachable organs come into play. Almost all of these creatures, which are also known as nudibranchs, are thought to be "simultaneous hermaphrodites". "They are both donating sperm to the other one. " "I haven't seen anything like this before," he said. Is Social Media Making You Depressed? Ah, social media. You’ve got followers, friends, and even strangers liking what you did today. With every new notification, you get a little shot of dopamine (that's the feel-good chemical that fires off in pleasure-seeking situations, as in jumping off a plane or, well, doing drugs).
So, you want to keep pressing refresh to get another dose. And then, you realize that what’s happening in your real life isn’t nearly as exciting. “Social media—Twitter, Instagram, Facebook—can create a false sense of connection with people,” says Sheri Meyers, PsyD, a therapist in Los Angeles (and author of Chatting or Cheating) “And, it’s immediate and 24/7, so there isn’t as much of a need to reach out to those that are close to us.” Eventually, real life pays the price — because when it’s not as satisfying as the cyber version, it can lead to feeling down about what you have going on (or don't have going on).
Remember when we mentioned the dopamine-narcotics connection? Like this post? Really Useful Things Leaders Can Do In A Recession. Senator: Let's Have a Targeted Killing Court. The United States should set up a secret court that would consider the use of lethal force against American terror suspects abroad, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said Thursday at the Senate intelligence committee hearing on White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan's nomination to head the Central Intelligence Agency. "Having the executive be the prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner is very contrary to laws and traditions of this country," King told Brennan. King suggested that the court would involve a "FISA-type process," referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the secret court that considers requests for surveillance against people who are suspected of working for foreign governments.
"At least that would be some check on the activities of the executive. " When asked about the targeted killing process earlier in the hearing, Brennan said that the administration goes through "agony" before determining whether a strike should take place. Incredible Meteor Crash in Russia (February 15th Meteor Shower) Josephtran: “How many times can I turn my head,
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The two great icons of our industry, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, came up in a talk given by Malcolm Gladwell recently at the Toronto Public Library. In discussing capitalism and entrepreneurship, Gladwell makes the point that amorality — i.e. the absence of a moral compass in making business decisions — is a fundamental prerequisite for being a successful business leader. He considers the entirety of Bill Gates' tenure as Microsoft chief to be that of "the most ruthless capitalist," which is not too dissimilar from his analysis of Steve Jobs' leadership. The difference, says Gladwell, is that Gates turned away from that amoral (note, not immoral) behavior after retiring and took up the task of spending his wealth on philanthropic projects.
It's for his latter work, not for how much money Gates made with Microsoft, that Gladwell expects him to be remembered some 50 years from now. iRYAN MEANS. Sharks & Rays. Mosquitoes fly in rain thanks to low mass. The mosquito is possibly summer's biggest nuisance. Sprays, pesticides, citronella candles, bug zappers -- nothing seems to totally deter the blood-sucking insect. And neither can rain apparently.
Even though a single raindrop can weigh 50 times more than a mosquito, the insect is still able to fly through a downpour. Georgia Tech researchers used high-speed videography to determine how this is possible. They found the mosquito's strong exoskeleton and low mass render it impervious to falling raindrops. The research team, led by Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering David Hu and his doctoral student Andrew Dickerson, found that mosquitoes receive low impact forces from raindrops because the mass of mosquitoes causes raindrops to lose little momentum upon impact. "The most surprising part of this project was seeing the robustness this small flyer has in the rain," Dickerson said. "The collision force must equal the resistance applied by the insect," Hu said. Reset Your Password. Weak Passwords Remain Epidemic, Says Cambridge Researcher. The use of weak and insecure passwords remains a key security vulnerability for every country in the world, say researchers.
A report from Cambridge University Computer Laboratory has found that users continue to utilise easily-guessed passwords, with young users particularly careless with their password selection. Utilising data collected from past data breaches and mass account thefts including a 2009 breach at Yahoo, researcher Joseph Bonneau noted that bad behaviour exists in every region on the web, and users are continuing to pick weak passwords for high-value accounts.
While certain countries such as Germany and Korea have been found to have slightly lower rates of vulnerable passwords, Bonneau noted that trends held up overall. "Factors increasing security motivation like registering a payment card only seem to nudge users away from the weakest passwords, and a limited natural experiment on actively encouraging stronger passwords seems to have made little difference. " The Latest on the Facebook Phone. Though I recently diagnosed rumors of a Facebook phone as “overblown,” it appears I was mistaken. Nick Bilton of the New York Times this week reported on Facebook’s interest in entering the hardware business–and the rest of the tech press has piled on saying what a terrible idea it is. Bilton says that Facebook employees “as well as people briefed on Facebook’s plans” say a smart phone from Facebook could be released “by next year.” Reportedly, Facebook has already hired six or so ex-Apple folk who worked on the iPhone, both on the hardware and software side, as well as one person who worked on the iPad.
Facebook has been reported to try its hand at the smart phone business time and again. Back in 2010, Facebook gave it a shot, only to find it was too difficult. Last year, reports emerged that it was giving it a second go with a phone code-named “Buffy.” Why would Facebook want a phone to begin with? What Hit Earth 1,200 Years Ago? Japanese scientists studying tree rings data found something strange: 1,200 years ago an extremely intense burst of high-energy radiation of unknown origin hit planet Earth. The radiation burst, which seems to have hit between ad 774 and ad 775, was detected by looking at the amounts of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in tree rings that formed during the ad 775 growing season in the Northern Hemisphere.
The increase in 14C levels is so clear that the scientists, led by Fusa Miyake, a cosmic-ray physicist from Nagoya University in Japan, conclude that the atmospheric level of 14C must have jumped by 1.2% over the course of no longer than a year, about 20 times more than the normal rate of variation. But what happened, exactly? The only known events that can produce a 14C spike are floods of gamma-rays from supernova explosions or proton storms from giant solar flares.
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SpillTrend. Leadership & success. Wordpress and Facebook are finally together, officially. Facebook announced an official WordPress plugin today for cross-posting content, enabling tighter, cleaner, and simpler integration between millions of WordPress blogs and Facebook. All I can say is: finally! I’ve been using WordPress blogging software since before it was WordPress. Seriously.
Before there was WordPress there was b2/cafelog, around 2001 (if you remember that, you’re among the proud and the few). In 2003, Matt Mullenweg released WordPress, which today has grown from a simple piece of blogging software to the most popular choice for a content management system on the planet. Facebook, you all know. Integrating Facebook and WordPress has always been a little tricky.
So an actual plugin from Facebook itself is a big deal. What the Facebook for WordPress plugin does is cross-post content published on your blog to your Facebook timeline or Page. This is a simple, clean plugin that does what most WordPress users need. Image credit: ShutterStock. The next move for Facebook’s ad empire: real-time bidding. With its stock value sinking, Facebook is looking to restore faith in its ad-based business model any way it can.
It’s solution? A form of ad auctioning known as real-time bidding. With the new system, dubbed “Facebook Exchange”, advertisers will be able to display more targeted ads using the browsing history of individual Facebook users, Bloomberg reports. While real-time bidding is new to Facebook, it’s already in use by companies like Google, Yahoo, and Aol. “By bidding on a specific impression rather than a larger group, advertisers are able to show people more relevant ads while also running more efficient and effective campaigns,” Facebook said in a statement. Real-time bidding is a different sort of beast from the pre-paid ad model most people are familiar with. This is all done in real-time, which means that not only is the system swift and flexible, but it’s also potentially more powerful as well. The problem? Photo: People raise hand to be picked/ Shutterstock.
Google's New Brain Could Have a Big Impact. Late last month, Google’s search engine got significantly smarter. A store of information dubbed the “Knowledge Graph” now adds useful context and detail to the list of links that Google serves up. Searching for certain people, places, or things produces a box of facts alongside the regular results. The Knowledge Graph is already starting to appear in a few other Google products, and could be used to add intelligence to all of the company’s software. “Search was mostly based on matching words and phrases, and not what they actually mean,” says Shashidar Thakur, the tech lead for the Knowledge Graph in Google’s search team. Thakur says the project was invented to change that.
The Knowledge Graph can be thought of as a vast database that allows Google’s software to connect facts on people, places, and things to one another. Such a stock of knowledge about the world should have uses beyond just helping people who are searching for facts online. Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Classical Technique. Quantum cryptography has had a bad couple of years. For a decade or so, we were promised the capability to send messages with absolute secrecy guaranteed by the laws of physics. At least in theory. In practice, however, things turned out a little differently. In 2010, a team at the University of Toronto in Canada announced that they had successfully hacked a commercial quantum cryptography system. The problem was not the theory but the practical limitations of the equipment used to carry out this kind of communication and the loopholes this introduces. Then, earlier this year, a UK-based team showed that these kinds of practical limitations can never be overcome entirely since there is no way to prove beyond doubt that any machine is not compromised (unless it is used only once and then thrown away).
Now quantum cryptography has a rival. The idea is straightforward. Alice encodes her message by connecting these two resistors to the wire in the required sequence. Now here’s the clever bit. Fundamental Science and the Big Machine : Annaka Harris interviews Lisa Randall. Lisa Randall is one of today’s most influential theoretical physicists and a Professor of Physics at Harvard University. Her work has been featured in Time, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vogue, the Economist, Scientific American, Discover, New Scientist, Science, Nature, and elsewhere. Randall is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Physical Society, and is the recipient of several honorary degrees.
When not solving the problems of the universe, she can be found rock climbing, skiing, or contributing to art-science connections. Hypermusic Prologue, a small opera for which she wrote the libretto, premiered in the Pompidou Center in 2009, and Measure for Measure, an art exhibit she co-curated, opened in Los Angeles in 2010. Annaka Harris is a freelance editor of nonfiction books and a Co-founder of Project Reason. It’s funny. Apple: Androids are much less likely to be running an up-to-date OS than iPhones and iPads. Apple CEO Tim Cook, and his senior executives, took to the stage at WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) in San Francisco earlier today. As well as announcing upgrades to some of the firm’s laptop hardware, and discussing new features coming in Mountain Lion and iOS 6, they also found it impossible to resist taking the opportunity to crow about Apple’s success at getting users to run the latest version of its mobile operating system.
Scott Forstall, Apple’s senior vice president of iOS software, told the developers assembled at the conference that over 80% of iPhone and iPad users are running iOS 5. That compares to a paltry 7% of Android customers who are up-to-date and running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) on their smartphones and tablets. According to the stats that Forstall presented, most Android devices are still running version 2.3 (Gingerbread) of the operating system. With an iPhone or iPad, all you’re waiting for is Apple to publish an update or security fix. Revealed! The top five Android malware detected in the wild. Spun Out Of Evri With $3.5M From Paul Allen, SportStream Brings Its Social Sports Platform To The iPad. Building Secure Web Applications: An Infographic.
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