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In Some Places, People Talk in Whistles Louder Than Car Horns(theatlantic.com)
3 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Not all Dinosaurs are dead. I see a lot of them flying around everyday.
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by NotSwift 5y ago
The other question of course is how much time will it take to develop the correct hardware and software? A lot of things that are easy for humans, like object and speech recognition, are still very difficult for machines. It took a long tim
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The hand gestures that last longer than spoken languages(bbc.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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I Spent 5 Months Trying to Coax a Cat from My Ceiling(theatlantic.com)
2 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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Cuttlefish can form crystal-clear memories even in their final weeks(theatlantic.com)
3 points by NotSwift 5y ago|1 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
There is one thing missing from this list that works in some other languages as well: use plurals (groups of people). In general, the words that are used to describe groups are gender-neutral, even when the words to describe the members of
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by NotSwift 5y ago
This is just a very bad idea. Trucks are heavy. This means that they have a lot of kinetic energy. This means that they can do a lot of destruction to anything that comes in their way. Trucks are big. It is very easy for them to block many
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Another important scientific contribution from Alan Turing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_pattern
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Turing Patterns Turn Up in a Tiny Crystal(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|1 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Please don't post references to articles that are beyond pay-walls. This is an interesting topic, but we can't have a discussion about it when some people cannot read the article.
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Near-Death Experiences Can Scar Animals for Life(theatlantic.com)
9 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
Many people believe that a fungus is either some kind of mushroom (they are possibly good-looking, sometimes good to eat, and sometimes poisonous) or some kind of mold (which most people regard as something bad). Fungi (yes that is the plur
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Flora, Fauna, and Funga? The Case for a Third ‘F.’(undark.org)
2 points by NotSwift 5y ago|1 comments
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Sea snakes are washing up on New Zealand’s shores(theguardian.com)
111 points by NotSwift 5y ago|60 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
First of all, congratulations, when you get Bruce Schneier to endorse your work, you have probably done something interesting. But still the article is not very clear on technical details. Of course on initial contacts your phone has to pro
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by NotSwift 5y ago
From a PR point of view it is probably not a very good idea to call yourself a troll. Also it does not describe what these people are doing. Typical trolls do not really believe in what they write, they are just trying to start a flame-war.
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by NotSwift 5y ago
It is highly unlikely that recovery will be so fast. Some things take a long time to learn for a population. For example learning which plants are poisonous is quite costly for a population. Elephants in Botswana travel through the Kalahari
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by NotSwift 5y ago
This article is (hard) science fiction. As for the fiction part, it is written by someone who has a lot of literary talent. For the science part, I don't believe for a moment that the "computer generated" parts of this story
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Crumbly Mars Rock, Not Hardware Flaws, Scuttled Perseverance’s Sample Attempt(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
> What is likely is that the virus jumped from bats to humans 'in the field', i.e. in nature. This is what happened with SARS and MERS to the best of our knowledge. Both SARS and MERS had an intermediate host before it jumped t
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Old-Style Espionage(theguardian.com)
17 points by NotSwift 5y ago|10 comments
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Loss of animals’ shared knowledge threatens their survival(theguardian.com)
218 points by NotSwift 5y ago|50 comments
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Astronomers are trying to unravel the mysteries of exoplanets(theatlantic.com)
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Near-Perfect Cave Lion Cub Corpse Found in Siberian Permafrost(smithsonianmag.com)
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Important Things to Know About Breakthrough Infections(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
This is a temperature at which humans normally cannot survive. It is yet another example why climate change is not just about raising the average temperature by one degree.
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Reasons to Be Optimistic About the World’s Oceans(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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Has Banksy been on an East Anglian seaside 'spraycation'?(bbc.com)
1 points by NotSwift 5y ago|0 comments
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by NotSwift 5y ago
For many HN readers (like me) Washington DC is in a foreign country. But Washington DC is not a US state, so it is not at all surprising that many Americans treat it as a foreign country :) What is happening here is the same thing that happ

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