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Sep 23, 2018

Waking Up with Sam Harris — #138 — The Edge of Humanity (with Yuval Noah Harari)

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James Hughes : “Great convo with Yuval Harari, touching on algorithmic governance, the perils of being a big thinker when democracy is under attack, the need for transnational governance, the threats of automation to the developing world, the practical details of UBI, and a lot more.”


In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. They discuss the importance of meditation for his intellectual life, the primacy of stories, the need to revise our fundamental assumptions about human civilization, the threats to liberal democracy, a world without work, universal basic income, the virtues of nationalism, the implications of AI and automation, and other topics.

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Sep 23, 2018

This Study on Nearly Half a Million People Has Bad News For The Keto Diet

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health

Scientists and dietitians are starting to agree on a recipe for a long, healthy life. It’s not sexy, and it doesn’t involve fancy pills or pricey diet potions.

Fill your plate with plants. Include vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, and legumes. Don’t include a lot of meat, milk, or highly processed foods that a gardener or farmer wouldn’t recognize.

“There’s absolutely nothing more important for our health than what we eat each and every day,” Sara Seidelmann, a cardiologist and nutrition researcher at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, told Business Insider.

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Sep 23, 2018

The Physics Of Why Timekeeping First Failed In The Americas

Posted by in category: physics

The world’s greatest clockmaker sent a clock to the new world, and everything went haywire. The reason why will shock you.

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Sep 23, 2018

Humans have skeletal stem cells that help bones and cartilage grow

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Human skeletal stem cells have been found for the first time.

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Sep 23, 2018

Your gut is directly connected to your brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

Find could lead to new treatments for obesity, depression.

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Sep 23, 2018

Liverpool could be first UK city to get a Universal Basic Income

Posted by in category: economics

The idea would mean ditching the traditional means tested benefits system.

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Sep 23, 2018

Internet will ‘split in two’ by 2028 with one half led China, claims former Google CEO Eric Schmidt

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‘One half will be led by the US and the other by China’


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Sep 22, 2018

These Wireless Earbuds Completely Embarrass Apple’s AirPods

Posted by in category: futurism

In addition, they sound way better. Inside the completely wireless earbuds, there’s an 8mm custom dynamic driver that blows other headphones’ sound quality out of the water, and as for battery life, you’ll get three hours of it from these buds on a single charge, and the sleek carrying case holds an extra six charges on top of that.

The Axum Gear True Wireless Earbuds usually retail for $299.99. Great headphones don’t come cheap. For a limited time, though, we’ve found them on sale for an insane $149.99. That’s right: they’re exactly the same price as the AirPods right now. It’s clear who the winner is.

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Sep 22, 2018

Wind Power costs at 2 cents per kilowatt hour

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Technology advancements and cost reductions have driven wind power down to 2 cents per kwh. This is from the annual report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

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Sep 22, 2018

‘Deep Creep’ Movement Near San Andreas, San Jacinto Faults Explains Unusual California Earthquakes

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Scientists discovered a strange movement deep below the Earth’s surface near California’s biggest fault lines.

Geoscientists who analyzed thousands of small earthquakes that occurred near the San Bernardino basin near California’s San Andreas and San Jacinto faults discovered a strange and unexpected type of movement 10 km below the Earth’s surface.

Researchers think that the movement, known as “deep creep,” could be behind the unusual earthquake formations recorded in the region over the past 36 years.

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