Now, academic history — the stuff argued over in portentously-titled tomes from micro-presses — may well turn on one or two facts unearthed from dusty archives.  And things “everybody knows” in the biz** are routinely challenged and disproven (that’s one of the ways you get tenure).  But that’s not particularly useful for our purposes.
 
I’ll give you an example.  I’ve been arguing in these pages that the 2016 campaign has been a weird mishmash of the 1852 and 1856 presidential elections, with Donald Trump in the John C. Fremont role.  I claim national defense (= borders + Muzzies) now is equivalent to slavery back then — the only thing ordinary people wanted to talk about, and the one thing both political parties wouldn’t talk about under torture.  I say Trump is Fremont because both Trump and Fremont, are, quite frankly, lunatics — but they’re straight-talking lunatics who won’t shut up about the one issue the public actually wants to hear, and who promise action.
 
http://www.rottenchestnuts.com/category/...-academia/
 
Found that article to be interesting.  Why is history getting to be such a taboo subject?
 
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Marcus Du Sautoy wants to find out how close we are to creating machines that can think like us: robots or computers that have artificial intelligence.


His journey takes him to a strange and bizarre world where AI is now taking shape.


Marcus meets two robots who are developing their own private language, and attempts to communicate to them. He discovers how a supercomputer beat humans at one of the toughest quiz shows on the planet, Jeopardy. And finds out if machines can have creativity and intuition like us.


Marcus is worried that if machines can think like us, then he will be out of business. But his conclusion is that AI machines may surprise us with their own distinct way of thinking.


https://youtu.be/5i8KwsDUuik

 

The Marketing of Madness is the definitive documentary on the psychiatric drugging industry. Here is the real story of the high income


partnership between psychiatry and drug companies that has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit center.


https://youtu.be/IgCpa1RlSdQ


 "Nobody knows for sure how this drug works, But it´s believed that..."

 

[b]Concrete needs to lose its colossal carbon footprint[/b]



http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nature/rss/current/~3/-yTyCq9kXho/d41586-021-02612-5

[b]Curiosity Celebrates Another Year on Mars[/b]

In this self-portrait from 2018, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sits atop Vera Rubin Ridge, which the rover had been investigating.


http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/curiosity-celebrates-another-year-on-mars

for their pretty little heads

[b]Climate change to loom large in talks to form new German government[/b]



http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nature/rss/current/~3/yjpOaOcOmGc/d41586-021-02635-y

[b]The Menu Matters[/b]

An army marches on its stomach, the saying goes, and astronauts fly on theirs.


http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-menu-matters

 

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Today....

 

 

 

 

 

 








.....because CGI lions will not do.




Source link:  http://gabbinggeek.com/2015/03/26/hollyw...he-scenes/

 

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[b]Daily briefing: Mentors, beware survivorship bias[/b]



http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nature/rss/current/~3/UAjFchB9CkU/d41586-021-02647-8