Ian
High performance computing researcher. Interested in Astrophysics, Neuroscience, Economics, Math, history. Atheist. Learning French and Portuguese.
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Russia's Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: 'Largest Data Breach In Its History'
Hackers successfully targeted Russia's state security agency last week through a major contractor, stealing and publishing details of secret internet projects including social media scraping and Tor de-anonymization.
How the Left Turned Words Into 'Violence,' and Violence Into 'Justice'
Responding to news that journalist Andy Ngo had been beaten by antifa protestors in Portland last month, a woman named Charlotte Clymer tweeted that “Ngo intentionally provokes people on the left to drive his content. Being attacked today on video...
Study finds transgender, non-binary autism link
New research indicates that transgender and non-binary individuals are significantly more likely to have autism or display autistic traits than the wider population -- a finding that has important implications for gender confirmation treatments.
The seamstresses who helped put a man on the moon
When NASA needed a lunar spacesuit for the Apollo astronauts, they turned to the experts – the women who sewed girdles and bras for Playtex
America’s Nationalist Awakening
Why has such an old idea suddenly become new again? Because progressive government has failed to keep its promises and broken the people’s trust.
Tourist Journalism Versus the Working Class
A few days before the Fourth of July, British comic John Oliver used the pulpit of his US infotainment show, Last Week Tonight, to deliver a lengthy monologue about the depredations of Amazon.com. His specific complaint was that Amazon doesn’t treat...
Why We Shouldn't Bet on Having Free Will—A Reply to William Edwards
It’s hard to discern the main point of William Edwards’s article The Academic Quarrel over Determinism, as his argument is discursive, confusing, contradictory, and sometimes misleading. In a first reading you may dimly perceive that he has a...
r/atheism - German churches lose 430,000 Catholic and Protestant members in 2018 (official numbers published today)
92 votes and 22 comments so far on Reddit
Lava Lake Discovered on Mount Michael
Scientists confirmed a stable pond of lava exists within the crater, raising the planet’s known number of lava lakes to seven.
Professor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76
Beloved professor conducted pioneering research on imbuing machines with human-like intelligence, including the ability to understand stories.
Catholics in Iowa went to church. Steve Bannon tracked their phones.
Campaigns have been using cell-phone location data for years. Did Bannon take it too far?
The Only Woman at Apollo 11 Launch Control
JoAnn Morgan stood out against the sea of men in skinny ties and glasses. But she was right where she belonged.
5 Things Aladdin Can Teach Us About Mating Psychology
New research on authenticity explains why the Genie gave good advice to Aladdin.
Hallucinations implanted in mouse brains using light
Behavioural evidence suggests that targeting just 20 neurons prompted animals to ‘see’ an image.
Fat Relativity: The (social) Science of Being Massive
(2019). Fat Relativity: The (social) Science of Being Massive. Fat Studies. Ahead of Print.
In China, Mental Health Care Goes Virtual
Why are VR companies launching their mental health care programs in the nation?
British Museum Uploads 3D Model of the Rosetta Stone
Now you can examine the 196 BCE stone stela in all its textural glory.