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Magnetic Landscape Architecture: http://www.bldgblog.com/2019/04/magnetic-landscape-architecture/
Ancient sculptors made magnetic figures from rocks struck by lightning: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-sculptures-guatemala-magnetic-rocks-struck-lightning
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Seven lessons for planning nature-based solutions in cities:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901118310888
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Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models:
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Open Source Software Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences (OpenCAS):
http://www.opencas.org/Open Source in China - presentation by J Aaron Farr:
http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/12/Open%20Source%20in%20China%20Presentation%201.pdf #OpenSource -
"We finally know how fish swim so fast": https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02410
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612609/we-finally-know-how-fish-swim-so-fast/"Physicists have argued for 50 years over which of two theories explains how fish produce thrust. Now a computer simulation has provided the answer."
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While some are still focused on dominating a tech-stack made to 'optimise' consumerism, which is suffocating our ecosystems - others are developing a new stack for a new type of operating environment - focusing on open, interdependent, civilisation-scale ecological infrastructure.
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A survey of Japanese people aged 18 to 34 found that almost 70 percent of unmarried men and 60 percent of unmarried women are not in a relationship.
Moreover, many of them have never got close and cuddly. Around 42 percent of the men and 44.2 percent of the women admitted they were virgins.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/16/national/social-issues/sexless-japan-almost-half-young-men-women-virgins-survey/#.XOTpKJMzZE4
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p076n241/the-men-leading-japan-s-surprising-sex-recession #Health -
These images nicely show the effects of Technology: While the car augmented our ability to move, it amputated critical aspects of human behaviour/culture and destroyed urban spaces.
From "5 Types of Terrible Drivers, Driver’s Ed Manual, 1955": https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/5-types-of-terrible-drivers-a-dossier-from-a-1955-drivers-ed-manual #Ideas #Augmentation #Technology
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"Google Restricts Huawei's Use of Android": https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48330310
Opinion: Today's news that Google has suspends Huawei’s Android license (blocking access to updates & critical services) marks the beginning of the end of Android. By 2025, the majority of the world (Eurasia, Africa etc.) will have switched to a new OS, not controlled by the US.
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KGB Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: The Russian spy case sheds troubling light on who remained in power after communism’s “collapse”:
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/64827/kgb-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow-jamie-glazov #Politics #Military #InfoSec #SE -
Florarobotica Overview:
Phytosensor: http://phytosensor.com/ http://cybertronica.co/?q=products/phytosensor
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Recent Papers by Serge Kernbach et.al: http://cybertronica.de.com/
Replication experiment on distant influence on biological organisms conducted in 1986 - by Serge Kernbach: http://www.unconv-science.org/pdf/e2/kernbach2-en.pdf
Abstract: The paper describes a replication experiment on nonlocal impact on a biological organism – the plant dracaena – by technical means at a distance of about 3km. The initial experiment was conducted by the Akimov’s group in 1986 under the supervision of the KGB of the USSR and published in 2001. This work analyses a possible biological orientation of the initial experiment and some potential conclusions that were not mentioned in the open press of that time. The disturbance of biological rhythms by long-term nonlocal impact and possible neurological manifestations, as in the incidents in Moscow in 1991 and in Cuba in 2017, are discussed.
External Qi and Torsion Field (高鹏, Serge Kernbach, 外气与挠场), Somatic Science Conference (devoted to Xuesen Qian), China, 2018:
http://cybertronica.de.com/sites/default/files/publications/GaoPeng_Kernbach.pdfAbstract: The Somatic Science contains the Qigong, the Chinese traditional medicine and the Superfunction of human body. Qian Xuesen thinks the Qigong is a very important part, and the external Qi is a very important part in the science of Qigong. Through the research in recent decades in China and abroad, it can make sure the objective existance of external Qi and many applications are developped, for example Qigong Master can heal the patients remotely, microorganisms treatment by the external Qi of Qigong Master and so on. But what is the nature of external Qi? It causes many researchers to try to find the answer. In this work, authors compare some experiments made by external Qi and torsion field, and find that they are very similar in two properties: the non-local effect the “high-penetrating” effect. So authors consider preliminarily that the nature of the external Qi maybe the torsion field, and provide some experimental evidence.
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New synthetic biology research center opens:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201905/08/WS5cd22fb6a3104842260ba70d.htmlEast China Normal University launched a biomedical research center for mammalian and medical synthetic biology in April.
China prohibits forced technology transfer: Xi:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201904/26/WS5cc26986a3104842260b8870.htmlChina will create a business environment in which the value of knowledge is respected, Xi said.
Chinese scientists develop new material for super batteries:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201903/29/WS5c9cfeb7a3104842260b327d.htmlResearchers from Tianjin University have developed ultra-high-energy fluorinated carbon materials, the key technology to realizing ultra-energy storage.
China may have developed a game changer for electric cars: https://www.inkstonenews.com/science/chinas-lithium-breakthrough-could-be-game-changer-electric-cars/article/3010277
The biggest stock – nearly 1 million cars – was registered in China, one of the world’s most lithium-rich countries. According to a 2017 Chinese government estimate, the salt lakes on the Tibetan Plateau – where the new technology is being used – hold more than 60% of the world’s lithium reserves. A US Geological Survey estimate last year was significantly lower, placing just 7% of the world’s reserves in China.
U.S. Rare Earths Revival Planned Amid Trade Conflict:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joint-venture-plans-to-revive-rare-earths-processing-in-u-s-11558341663The important commodities are caught up in the U.S.-China trade conflict
US urged to avoid more damage to China ties:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201905/20/WS5ce1ca15a3104842260bc819.htmlBeijing urged Washington on Saturday "not to go too far" in harming China's interests, and called for it to change course to avoid further damaging bilateral ties.
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Qian Xuesen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
Commemorating the 107th anniversary of the birth of Qian:
http://www.scalarwave.cc/?p=1110How China’s smart cities, social credit system and mass surveillance were sparked by rocket scientist: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2158142/how-chinas-smart-cities-social-credit-system-and
Master Planner - China’s revered rocket scientist, Qian Xuesen, set in motion a system for engineers to control Chinese society: http://sci-hub.tw/https://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6381/1206.full
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“Space-based systems and IT tools, especially in cyberspace, will play a great, if not decisive role in armed conflicts. In a more remote future, weapon systems that use different physical principles will be created (beam, geophysical, wave, genetic, psychophysical and other types of weapons). All this will provide fundamentally new instruments for achieving political and strategic goals in addition to nuclear weapons,” - Vladimir Putin, Russian President (2012)
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Power of Siberia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_Siberia
A natural gas pipeline under construction in Eastern Siberia to transport Yakutia's gas to Primorsky Krai and Far East countries. On 21 May 2014, Russia and China signed a 30-year gas deal worth $400 billion which was needed to make the project feasible. As of 2019 the pipeline is not operational but "on track" for start by the end of the year.
Gazprom chief says slight changes to Nord Stream 2 timings possible: Ifax:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gazprom-nordstream-2-miller-idUSKCN1SP0CS
Council of Europe to Allow Russia to Vote Again: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2019-05-17/council-of-europe-restores-russias-voting-rights
Chinese president, Saudi king talk over phone on bilateral ties:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/08/c_138043810.htmRussia Grinds Out Wins in Europe:
https://tomluongo.me/2019/05/19/russia-grinds-out-wins-in-europe/There were simply too many issues coming to a head this year that this policy would continue beyond this point.
- EU Parliamentary elections in May would bring a different blend of voices to the EU
- Nordstream 2 would be completed
- The gas transit contract between Ukraine’s Naftogaz and Gazprom would end.
- The Council of Europe would have to kick Russia out.
- Ukrainian elections would bring change to Kiev
- Power of Siberia 1 pipeline would be complete to China
- Turkstream would be complete to Turkey
- New power plants in Crimea would come on line
Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation - Vladimir Putin attended the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation:
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China-Laos Railway opens new horizons for fruit growers in Southwest China’s Yunnan: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1150603.shtml
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Archaeologists discover bizarre ‘Jars of the Dead’ hidden in Laos:
https://bgr.com/2019/05/19/jars-of-the-dead-laos-ritual/
