AUTHOR’S BLOG

The Case of the Magic Wine 0
- AUTHOR'S BLOG
- October 21, 2018
I just came across a strange but quite charming scientific study claiming that human thought alone can make wine taste better. This miracle of vinomancy is reported in a paper in Explore, a unique if often credulity-stretching Elsevier academic journal dedicated to “healing arts, consciousness, spirituality, eco-environmental issues, and basic science as all these fields
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Body-snatching, not socialising, drove the evolution of bigger-brained insects 0
- AUTHOR'S BLOG
- October 21, 2018
Some insects, such as ants, lead famously social lives, with massive colonies of individuals, cooperating for a common good. These insects also tend to have unusually large brains. For over 150 years, this link has been tacitly taken as support for the idea that social animals need extra smarts to keep track of all their
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Boeing’s New Business Targets Computers Modelled on Human Brains 0
- AUTHOR'S BLOG
- October 21, 2018
Boeing Co. is creating a new unit to focus on technology that’s seemingly straight out of science fiction, including super-fast computing that mimics the synapses of the human brain and hack-proof communications links based on applied quantum physics. So-called neuromorphic processing and quantum communications, two of the futuristic technologies Boeing wants to explore, may seem
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OnePlus 6T Launch Date Changed to Avoid Clash With Apple’s October 30 Event 0
- AUTHOR'S BLOG
- October 21, 2018
OnePlus has decided to reschedule the October 30 event scheduled in New York for the global unveiling of the OnePlus 6T smartphone. Now, the OnePlus 6T has a launch date of October 29. The company says the move was necessary as sticking to the original date would’ve meant the OnePlus 6T launch would be “overshadowed by
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Giant Galaxy Supercluster Found Lurking in Early Universe 0
- AUTHOR'S BLOG
- October 21, 2018
Scientists have discovered a primitive “supercluster” of galaxies forming in the early Universe, just 2.3 billion years after the Big Bang. The structure, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive to be found so early in the formation of the Universe, which sprang into existence around 13.7 billion years ago. Its titanic mass is
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I Fell for Facebook Fake News. Here’s Why Millions of You Did, Too.0
- AUTHOR'S BLOG
- October 20, 2018
The Facebook video is nuts, but I can’t tear my eyes away. A plane, struggling in a huge storm, does a 360-degree flip before safely landing and letting out terrified passengers. It turns out the video is totally bunk, spliced together from a computer-generated clip and unrelated real news footage. But that didn’t stop the
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