Month: September 2022

INVENTOR'S REMORSE. * The man who dreamed of the atom bomb." Compelling biographical story of a scientific Eureka moment that later led to terrible misgivings. " ""Lisa Jardine tells the story of Leo Szilard, physicist and key pioneer in the development of the atomic bomb."" " http://lnkd.in/b8AeWH8 View in LinkedIn

SWARMBOTS TO DO USEFUL WORK: "The scientists envisage miniaturized "swarmbot" versions self-assembling like the "liquid steel" androids in the Terminator films. They believe armies of such cubes could be used for making temporary repairs to bridges or buildings, or as self-assembly, re-configurable scaffolding."" " http://lnkd.in/bPr-g_d View in LinkedIn

SWARMBOTS TO KILL JELLYFISH that are commercial pests. "Scientists at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have built a robotic solution known as the Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm. The robots operate autonomously, without human control, and use cameras to find jellyfish near the surface before teaming up to float around them in formation." Sponges and starfish replicate vegitatively when diced, but so far no reference to that phenomenon in jellies."" " http://lnkd.in/biz-tAW View in LinkedIn

TOR, THE DARK WEB. "Tor is an open-source network that provides people connected to it a pretty strong, though not perfect, method for browsing the Internet anonymously. You have to be using it in order to access the so-called “Dark Web,” which is where Silk Road, the online bazaar of illicit drugs and other things, existed until its operator was arrested in San Francisco on Wednesday. The case has cast new attention on both the Dark Web and on Tor itself." ( Oct 4, 2013). " " http://lnkd.in/bY4_AeZ View in LinkedIn

TOR BUST. "Silk Road, the underground website where dealers sold illegal drugs, was supposed to be safe. The site was nestled deep in the dark web, accessible only through the anonymizing network Tor. All transactions were done in the anonymizing virtual currency Bitcoin. Its owner-operator, Dread Pirate Roberts, was said to be a criminal mastermind and technical wunderkind who never left a trail. It was all very hackerish and clandestine."" " http://lnkd.in/b8WdmcP View in LinkedIn

INVENTOR'S REMORSE II? "According to The Guardian, you can only access 0.03% of the internet via search engines like Google and the rest is what makes up the deep web," accessible by anonymous browsers like Tor. It contains access to a host of criminal sites from child porn, snuff, drugs and hit men. Tor’s origins lie in a project at the U.S. Naval Academy, (of) ways of protecting government communications from the encroachments of hackers and spies."" " http://lnkd.in/bSw5CUE http://lnkd.in/bH3wiWN View in LinkedIn

INNOCENCE LOST reminiscent of the Dark Web. "‘90s and ‘00s references; Mafioso and hackers and dotcom billionaires; unscrupulous government agents of uncertain affiliation; terrorism; conspiracy theories; underground videotapes; the Deep Web; murder; karaoke nights. These are a few of the things you will find in Thomas Pynchon’s newest novel, Bleeding Edge." Move over Gravity's Rainbow. " " http://lnkd.in/bzpPm2Q View in LinkedIn

RAT TELEPATHY experiment that was recently reported used non-invasive electrical sensors to convey thoughts via the internet. This was phenomenological: we have no clear understanding how this occurs. We do not need to have even a basic understanding of this phenomenon to be able to achieve it. Otherwise we will still be tinkering with the simple flatworm brain, and predicting the impossibility of phenomenological experiments. Sometimes it is sufficient to just get lucky. " " http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23221-first-mindreading-implant-gives-rats-telepathic-power.html View in LinkedIn

MEMORY CHIP, top MIT breakthough of 2013. "Brain implants: Restoring memory with a chip: the U.S.-wide team now thinks that it will see a memory device being implanted in a small number of human volunteers within two years and available to patients in five to 10 years". " " http://lnkd.in/bhWEFuZ View in LinkedIn

MEMORY CHIPS for Alzheimer's patients. “We’re not putting individual memories back into the brain. We’re putting in the capacity to generate memories.” In an impressive experiment published last fall, Berger and his coworkers demonstrated that they could also help monkeys retrieve long-term memories from a part of the brain that stores them.“I never thought I’d see this go into humans, and now our discussions are about when and how. I never thought I’d live to see the day, but now I think I will.”" " http://lnkd.in/bpPBZrv View in LinkedIn