Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Big Data Is Helping Us See Environmental Problems in a Whole New Light http://suhub.co/2jj5w1F
Tag: Mike Reeves-McMillan
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This is so ridiculously cool that it has to be exaggerated.
This is so ridiculously cool that it has to be exaggerated. Mind-controlled drones providing augmented-reality views to the pilot – and then you scroll down, and they have swarm drones that form what amount to protective force fields?
Doesn’t mean you can’t use these probably fictional drones in your fiction, though.
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Turns out that if you consider tasks, not jobs, the picture is rather different.
Turns out that if you consider tasks, not jobs, the picture is rather different.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
Robots May Steal Our Jobs, but Not as Quickly as We Thought
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How does stem cell therapy actually work? Peter Diamandis explains, based on his own experience.
Originally shared by Singularity Hub
How does stem cell therapy actually work? Peter Diamandis explains, based on his own experience.
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TIL:
TIL:
Originally shared by Adafruit Industries
Mary Somerville: The Woman For Whom The Word “Scientist” Was Made #WomenInSTEM
Via All That is Interesting
When we think of history’s great scientists, names such as Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, or Nicolaus Copernicus likely come to mind. The funny thing is that the term “scientist” wasn’t coined until 1834 — well after these men had died — and it was a woman named Mary Somerville who brought it into being in the first place.
Mary Somerville was an almost entirely self-taught polymath whose areas of study included math, astronomy, and geology – just to name a few. That Somerville had such a constellation of interests, and possessed two X chromosomes, would signal a need to create a new term for someone like her — and scientific historian William Whewell would do precisely that upon reading her treatise, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, in 1834.
After reading the 53-year-old Somerville’s work, he wanted to pen a glowing review of it. He encountered a problem, however: The term du jour for such an author would have been “man of science,” and that just didn’t fit Somerville.
In a pinch, the well-known wordsmith coined the term “scientist” for Somerville. Whewell did not intend for this to be a gender-neutral term for “man of science;” rather, he made it in order to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of Somerville’s expertise. She was not just a mathematician, astronomer, or physicist; she possessed the intellectual acumen to weave these concepts together seamlessly.
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Clothing is some of our most gendered cultural equipment. This is an interesting insight.
Clothing is some of our most gendered cultural equipment. This is an interesting insight.
Originally shared by Deborah Teramis Christian
This is a very interesting read.
“Motivated by Octieber and determined to combat the world of gendered clothing, Lucy Rycroft-Smith tries menswear for a month and documents her findings”
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Via Karen Conlin. I love this kind of stuff when it comes up in SFF.
Via Karen Conlin. I love this kind of stuff when it comes up in SFF.
Originally shared by Able Lawrence