Chronophobia is anxiety over the passage of time. Chronophobia is especially common in prison inmates and the elderly, but it can manifest in any person who has an extreme amount of stress and anxiety in their life.
Chronophobia is anxiety over the passage of time. Chronophobia is especially common in prison inmates and the elderly, but it can manifest in any person who has an extreme amount of stress and anxiety in their life.
This essay studies examples of early video art from a new historical perspective focusing on the co-evolution of live media and present-time consciousness from 1960s onwards. Pioneers’ videotapes and installations appear as the first segments of a non-linear sequence of electronic art practices coping with the postmodern crisis of temporality.
Daniel Goleman on Focus: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment
Are the Earth’s magnetic poles about to swap places? Strange anomaly gives reassuring clue
Deep inside the Earth, liquid iron is flowing and generating the Earth’s magnetic field, which protects our atmosphere and satellites against harmful radiation from the Sun. This field changes over time, and also behaves differently in different parts of the world. The field can even change polarity completely, with the magnetic north and south poles switching places. This is called a reversal and last happened 780,000 years ago.
Now our new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has uncovered how long the field in the South Atlantic has been acting up – and sheds light on whether it is something to worry about.
Study Finds Stronger Links Between Automation and Inequality
New research by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu shows that since 1987, automation has taken away jobs from lower-skill workers without being replaced by an equivalent number of labor-market opportunities.
"Automation is critical for understanding inequality dynamics" says Acemoglu, detailing the findings.
Does the US tax code favor automation?
"We find that the U.S. tax system favors excessive automation. In particular, the heavy taxation of labor and low taxes on capital encourage firms to automate more tasks and use less labor than is socially optimal."
Can capitalism be regenerative? - John Elkington & Daniel Wahl in Conversation
Jeff Bezos Adds Record $13 Billion in Single Day to His Fortune
Amazon.com Inc. shares surged 7.9%, the most since December 2018 on rising optimism about web shopping trends, and are now up 73% this year.
Bezos, Amazon’s 56-year-old founder and the world’s richest person, has seen his fortune swell $74 billion in 2020 to $189.3 billion, despite the U.S. entering its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. He’s now personally worth more than the market valuation of giants such as Exxon Mobil Corp., Nike Inc. and McDonald’s Corp. Mackenzie Bezos, his ex-wife, gained $4.6 billion Monday and is now the 13th-richest person in the world.
Energy governance and China’s bid for global grid integration
Energy projects have always been a major part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) infrastructure mega-plan for Eurasia. The enormity of that plan was on display at the BRI Forum last month, where an official report was released estimating that energy investments in BRI countries would add up to $27 trillion by 2050, with $7 trillion alone going to power grid construction, and over 200 million new jobs created in the process.
The circular bioeconomy: Its elements and role in European bioeconomy clusters
Biomass is projected to play a key role in meeting global climate targets. To achieve a resource-efficient biomass use, European bioeconomy strategies increasingly consider the concept of a circular bioeconomy (CBE). We define the term CBE via a literature review and analyze the concept’s role in north-west European bioeconomy clusters through interviews. We identify strategies regarding the clusters’ feedstock and product focus, and investigate what role biorefineries, circular solutions, recycling and cascading play.
The dark web has a longstanding reputation as a haven for the worst kinds of criminal activity. This reputation is not wholly unjustified, as there are indeed terrible things happening around the world that can be bought and sold on the dark web.
Diet and Weight Loss: Using Social Robots to Support Human Health and Well-being
Monash University’s Dr. Nicole Robinson explains how social robots can play a role in diet and weight reduction without the need for human intervention.
#Comment: A brain dead narrative proposed by scientists who in their blind love of the machines have become robots themself. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
New battery breakthrough paves way for 100% silicon batteries with higher energy density
LeydenJar Technologies, a Dutch spin-out of TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research, has developed a new anode which it believes will “drastically change the battery industry,” allowing lithium-ion batteries to be made from 100% silicon, boosting energy density by 70%.
Google Promises Privacy With Virus App But Can Still Collection Location Data
Some government agencies that use the software said they were surprised that Google may pick up the locations of certain app users. Others said they had unsuccessfully pushed Google to make a change.
UAE successfully launches Hope probe, Arab world's first mission to Mars
A rocket carrying the unmanned probe, known as Al-Amal in Arabic, joins China and US in race to red planet. A live feed of the launch showed the rocket carrying the probe lifting off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in southern Japan at 6.58am (9.58pm GMT).
Continental Shift: The World's Biggest Economies Over Time
Elon Musk claims his Neuralink chip will allow you to stream music directly to your brain
#Comment: It feels progressive boring and silly to watch the telenovela actor Musk unveil well established (yet not widely disseminated) technologies that were created by the scientific/military community years ago (publicly funded DARPA etc.), while keep pretending these "breakthroughs" magically appear from a small private company and its "genius" leaders. Case in point: Synthetic Telepathy has been around for decades but has not been commercialised for a range of reasons, of which "technical challenges" in only one. Luckily this technology innovation model which heavily relies on militarisation, secrecy (black-tech, scientist surveillance, etc.) and manufactured "genius individual, free-enterprise" narratives for public rollout, is being eclipsed by new technology innovation models that are a bit less magic trick and a bit more transparent science in the public interest. In Summary, this headline has it all: "Kanye West Drops Out Of Race After Elon Musk Offers Him Position As President Of Mars".