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(...) by 2015, the average British child would spend less time outdoors than a high-security prisoner (less than an hour on average, whereas a lifer should get 60 minutes, under UN guidelines)

The 21st-century Hollywood: how Silicon Valley became the world’s trend capital | Life and style | The Guardian

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Het licht van lantaarnpalen langs oevers trekt 's nachts water- en landinsecten aan. De toename van deze insecten op land verandert het ecosysteem van

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(via Our Polluted Senses - The New York Times)

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Time may be fuzzy. If so, the idea of causality may be in trouble

Does one thing lead to another?

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The machine learning paradox

Nothing says machine learning can't outperform humans, but it's important to realize perfect machine learning doesn't, and won't, exist.

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Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy). Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).. Costumes by Jenny Beavan..

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The Chevy Bolt EV Now Has An Autonomous Version, And It’s Almost Ready For Mass Production

The future of the transportation industry seems set to be built on the backs of autonomous vehicles

So far, Cruise has gone through three iterations of its self-driving vehicle, with the third generation practically ready for mass production. In an announcement on Medium, Cruise CEO and founder Kyle Vogt described the vehicle as a full-featured car with all the comforts of a traditional vehicle.

Seems premature but we will see

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(via As Amazon Pushes Forward With Robots, Workers Find New Roles - The New York Times)

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(via World's wealthiest families keep getting richer as markets boom | Business | The Guardian)

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(via De eerste voetstap op de maan - YouTube)

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(via New AI can work out whether you're gay or straight from a photograph | Technology | The Guardian)

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Opinion | What the Rich Won’t Tell You

“There’s nobody who knows how much we spend. You’re the only person I ever said those numbers to out loud.”

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(via How the aristocracy preserved their power | News | The Guardian)

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Opinion | The Biggest Misconception About Today’s College Students

Forty percent of all undergraduates go to community colleges, and many can’t afford to go full-time.

[currentsinbiology]

Makes perfect sense.

Early human gut bacteria may have cycled with the season

You may be what you eat, but trillions of other lives depend on your diet: the microbes that live in your digestive tract. Scientists have long known that the foods we eat influence our intestinal microbiomes, but a new study finds that the gut residents of one of the world’s few remaining hunter-gatherer groups change seasonally, with different bacterial profiles in the dry and wet seasons. The findings—the first to show such a cyclical change in humans—may help researchers understand what our ancestors’ microbiomes were like before most of them switched to agriculture. 

Microbes living in the guts of Tanzania’s Hadza hunter-gatherers change along with seasonal food sources. Matthieu Paley/National Geographic Creative

[stoweboyd]

That’s intriguing.

[emergentfutures]

not that surprising, our change with the foods we eat