2014-06-30

iPhone 5s/5c stocks being liquidated

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/557341/20140630/iphone-6-release-date-imminent-walmart-cut.htm

 

2014-06-29

Fwd: Soccer

'Isn't cheering a team of losers an un-American activity?

 

Not necessarily—at least, not in the World Cup, where the initial stage of the competition is conducted in groups rather than on a knockout basis. But it does take a bit of getting used to, as we discovered today, when Team U.S.A. progressed to the next stage of the tournament despite losing to Germany, 1–0, 

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/06/a-very-un-american-triumph-at-world-cup.html

Doctor Who Season 8 Premiere Date and New Teaser Revealed!

2014-06-27

Top States to Live in

 

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101719133

 

Fwd: Thailand



'But I can't. I fear that the latest Siamese coup signals something serious; I fear that this time 'Teflon Thailand' (the name is shorthand for the remarkable way its booming economy and amiable society seem impervious to the nation's political turmoil) might have altered for good. I also wonder if this evolution says something ominous to the rest of the world.'

 

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9247241/thailands-next-fix/

 

2014-06-17

Fwd: Methane

'A powerful new model to detect life on planets outside of our solar system more accurately than ever before has been developed by researchers. The new model focuses on methane, the simplest organic molecule, widely acknowledged to be a sign of potential life. The new model has been tested and verified by successfully reproducing in detail the way in which the methane in failed stars, called brown dwarfs, absorbs light.'

2014-06-16

Steve Jobs: Why did Steve Jobs choose not to effectively treat his cancer? - Quora

Neuroendocrine tumors are relatively mild forms of cancer.

Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors (GEP-NET's) are a range of tumors that mostly keep their original function, producing endocrine hormones.
The disadvantage of that is the havoc they wreak on the body due to all sorts of hormonal imbalances caused by the hormones they produce. On the other hand, the level of differentiation is a strong indicator of how aggressive a tumor is: the better a tumor is differentiated e.g. keeps the features of its originator, the least invasive and prone to metastasis it is.

Just to illustrate how mild these tumors can be:
  • As many as 10% of autopsied persons in the general population have been reported to have one of these without ever having had any symptoms during their life.
  • Up to 30% of detected GEP-NETs are so well differentiated they're strictly not cancers. I have even come across an article where insulinomas, the most common type of GEP-NETs were benign in 90% of the cases.

http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/Why-did-Steve-Jobs-choose-not-to-effectively-treat-his-cancer?__pmsg__=+aGpKdXVCNk93TzE3WTlqZjUxYk46YS5hcHAudmlldy5wbXNnLmFsbC5Mb2dnZWRJbkZyb21MaW5rOltbMjc5MTQ3MzldLCB7fV0*




Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney | Talk Video | TED.com

http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney

2014-06-15

Learning

'This is my 3,000th column. I've learned a tremendous amount in writing about investing and the economy. Here are a few of the big lessons….'

 

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/06/11/im-just-now-realizing-how-stupid-we-are.aspx

Magnets Mean Your New Refrigerator Will Make History

Relics Of A Bygone Network?

Fwd: Simple Strategy


'Having more complex cognitive reasoning skills doesn't necessarily make you better at simple tasks, a new study has found. When it comes to outwitting the competition, the chimpanzee seems to be smarter than a human.

 

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have found that chimpanzees at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute are consistently better at humans when playing simple competitive games.

 

In one game, called the Inspection Game, chimps and humans played a variation on hide-and-seek. In pairs of their own species (humans and chimps did not directly compete with each other for the study), the players sit back-to-back, each with a computer screen in front of them. After pushing a circle on the screen, they have to choose one of two boxes, right or left. They are then shown their opponent's selection.'

 

http://www.cnet.com/news/chimps-outsmart-humans-at-simple-strategy-game/

 

Beheadings, Sharia Lockdown as Iraq Unravels; McCain Calls Crisis 'Existential Threat'

2014-06-13

Fwd: Ultrasound


'Researchers have demonstrated a technique for detecting and controlling ultrahigh frequency sound waves at the nanometer scale. This represents an advance towards next generation ultrasonic imaging with potentially 1,000 times higher resolution than today's medical ultrasounds.'

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140611171006.htm

 



2014-06-01

Fwd: Thailand


'Thai minister arrested for condemning military coup

Eight armed soldiers burst into a journalists' club in Bangkok and detain the former education minister after the Thai government was deposed by the army last week'

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/10858097/Thai-minister-arrested-for-condemning-military-coup.html


Fwd: Skype translation


'Skype hopes to make its international connections easier — though perhaps still a little awkward — with a new feature that automatically translates conversations almost in real time.

 

Parent company Microsoft unveiled the new technology at the Code technology conference on Tuesday, where Skype vice president Gurdeep Pall made small talk in English with a German-speaking Skype manager in Europe.

 

After saying a sentence in English, an automated voice translated his words into German. (You can watch the video here.)'

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/05/28/microsoft-unveils-near-real-time-language-translation-for-skype/

 

Fwd: MH370


'The 850-square-kilometer swath of the Indian Ocean where officials have focused their hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 probably isn't the right place, the joint search agency said Thursday.

 

The area off the coast of western Australia is not the "final resting place of MH370," the Australia-based Joint Agency Coordination Centre said.

Pings were not from Flight 370... now what?

 

Officials zeroed in on that zone after acoustic pings originally thought to be from the black boxes of the missing plane were detected in early April.

 

"The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has advised that the search in the vicinity of the acoustic detections can now be considered complete and in its professional judgment, the area can now be discounted as the final resting place of MH370," a statement from the JACC said.

MH370 search goes back to square one

Photos: The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Photos: The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

 

But Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss defended the country's efforts in the southern Indian Ocean.

 

"We are still very confident that the resting place of the aircraft is in the southern ocean and along the seventh ping line," Australian Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss told parliament Thursday.

 

"We concentrated the search in this area because the pings and the information we received was the best information we had available at the time. And that is all you can do in circumstances like this ... follow the very best leads."

 

Unlikely to be from Flight 370

 

Hours earlier, a U.S. Navy official told CNN that the pings at the center of the search for the past seven weeks are no longer believed to have come from the plane's black boxes.'

 

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/29/world/asia/malaysia-missing-plane/