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Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming 'not as likely'
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Scientists say the recent downturn in the rate of global warming will lead to lower temperature rises in the short-term. Since 1998, there has been an unexplained "standstill" in the heating of the Earth's atmosphere. Writing in Nature Geoscience, the ...
Dire outlook despite global warming 'pause': study - Science NewsPhys.Org
A second chance to save the climateNew Scientist
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The Australian-Scientific American-AllGov
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Comment Lamarckism not Darwinism... (Score -1) 1

by aleckais (#43610829) Attached to: Bizarre, Squishy Robots Evolve to Run: "Doom Us All"
"Nagel pointed out to Goedel that Goedel's extreme dualist view (according to which souls and bodies have quite separate existences, linking up with one another at birth to conjoin in a sort of partnership that is severed upon death) seems hard to reconcile with the theory of evolution. Goedel professed himself a nonbeliever in evolution and topped this off by pointing out, as if this were additional corroboration for his own rejection of Darwinism: "You know Stalin didn't believe in evolution either, and he was a very intelligent man."" (R. Goldstein, Incompleteness)
"I don't believe in natural science" (K. Goedel)

Submission + - Putin Reportedly Comments on T-Platform Supercomputer Controversy (slashdot.org)

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes: Russian president Vladimir Putin appears to be interjecting himself into the controversy over T Platforms, the Russian supercomputer maker essentially blacklisted by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Meanwhile, T-Platforms’ highest-profile U.S. customer, SUNY Stony Brook, says it severed ties with T-Platforms last year. In March, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security added T-Platforms’ businesses in Germany, Russia and Taiwan to the “Entity List,” which includes those believed to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. Commerce felt, according to the notice, that T-Platforms may be illegally assisting the Russian military and/or its nuclear program. In the meantime, Russian president Vladimir Putin has reportedly weighed in on the T-Platforms question. “That’s right. The use of political levers for unfair competition,” Putin said, according to RBTH.ru. “Our European colleagues are independent people and they claim they want to work with us in certain spheres, yet they act as though they are absolutely dependent and unable to make their own decision. Is that so?” It’s odd that Putin was quoted talking about “European colleagues” when the Americans were responsible for cutting T-Platforms off. In any case, does it indicate that some political pressure may be brought to bear to allow the Russian supercomputer maker back into the United States? Let’s see if it happens.

Comment Goedel, social networks and atheism (Score -1) 181

by aleckais (#43491459) Attached to: Interviews: Ask Freeman Dyson What You Will
Dear Mr. Dyson, thank you for doing something that you likely know is futile. Why do atheists tend to chose what is worse (e.g., GPUs instead of software octree renderers, image-order instead of object-order rendering, a much more demanding approach and therefore pollutant and yet believe in global warming)? Why atheists still haven't understood that horizontal interaction destroys truth (e.g., cf. "How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect"). Why isn't slashdot's sinkhole-ness & idiocy, karma, notation system etc. criticized on scientific grounds? Why did Plato, Leibniz, Newton, Brouwer or Goedel believe in a most high god? Why do people reject ontological arguments? Why do atheists deny religion and at the same time follow twitter/facebook/today's heroes/little green men/Wittgenstein pocket gods or worship Mammon in their love of money? Why are axioms given to believers only? Why are so many convinced that the Higgs boson has been found? Why are researchers loving money more than truth in accepting grants to investigate losing strategies like raycasting? A tentative reply: The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that does good. (Psalm 14.1) With respect.
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Submission + - The Most Detailed 121-megapixel Image Of Earth Captured By Russian Satellite (gizmocrazed.com) 1

Submitted by Diggester
Diggester writes: The satellite, known as Elektro-L No.1, took this image from its stationary point over 35,000 kilometers above the Indian Ocean. This is the most detailed image of the Earth yet available to human beings, just because it captures the Earth in a single shot with 121-megapixels unlike NASA satellites, which usually use a collection of pictures from multiple flybys stitched together. The detail in the pic is just amazing, with everything visible so clearly.

Comment Hierarchy as dimension (Score -1) 465

by aleckais (#39788185) Attached to: Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause
Grigori Perelman: Here, the parameter is not time, but scale â" and our space is modeled not by a manifold with a metric, but by a hierarchy of manifolds and metrics connected by the Ricci flow equation. This mathematics belongs to the new century and the new millennium, but the notion of a hierarchy of metrics would have pleased Riemann. Note that we have a paradox here: the regions that appear to be far from each other at a large distance scale may become close at a smaller distance scale; moreover if we allow Ricci flow through singularities, the regions that are in different connected components at a larger distance scale may become neighboring...
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Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Can companies force employees to join social networks? (blogspot.com) 3

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rubeon
rubeon writes: "Companies can get a lot of mileage out of social networking services from the likes of Google or Facebook. Chat, document collaboration, and video conferencing using services like Google+ Hangouts or Facebook's Skype are seductive additions to an IT arsenal. But a lot of people have privacy concerns about these services, and there's no shortage of horror stories how these sites track and exploit their users' habits. Can a company force its employees to use Google+?"

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