Joint study between researchers at the Guildhall School and Imperial College London found that listeners engage with classical music more when musicians improvise
via Guildhall School of Music & Drama .
You can watch a video featuring Guildhall School staff David Dolan and John Sloboda here.
An artist’s interpretation of the hominins that
lived near the Sima de los Huesos cave in Spain.
Scientists have found the oldest DNA evidence yet of humans’ biological history. But instead of neatly clarifying human evolution, the finding is adding new mysteries.
By CARL ZIMMER
Published: December 4, 2013
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Google is working on bringing Chrome packaged apps from the desktop to the mobile world. The company is currently building a toolkit to help developers create Chrome apps for Android and iOS, as well as port their existing Chrome apps to both mobile platforms.
Report: Google Is Planning Chrome App Support for Android and iOS.
Google planning chrome app support for iOS & Android.. Could this be the new future of multi-platform apps?
http://gizmodo.com/report-google-is-planning-chrome-app-support-for-andro-1476247046
Google declined to comment. A source close to the company did say, however, that while developers can try out the tools today, they aren’t ready to be announced officially just yet.
Smart weapons
Kill switches and safety catches
Arms control: New technologies make it easier to track small arms and stop them working under certain circumstances. To what extent can they prevent the unintended or undesirable use of weapons?
Technological tweaks may be able to make possible weapons that stop working after a certain period of time, or can only be used by specific people or in particular places. Proponents of such technologies believe they have the potential to succeed where political and legislative attempts at arms control have failed. In the 1980s, America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) gave Afghan fighters shoulder-launched Stinger anti-aircraft missiles (pictured).
via Smart weapons: Kill switches and safety catches | The Economist.
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Web blogger Ramona Depares reports on year 2013 Malta Comic Con!
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Following the huge success of last Friday’s social media strategy course at MISCO, Strategic Communications’ Director Dott. Fabio Giangolini will deliver an extraordinary session this Friday 6th December from 9am to 1pm.
As an organisation, planning your social media strategy and processes have become part of everyday life. Our training workshop teaches you how to increase sales, brand awareness and promote your organisation online through the use of Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
What will I learn?
– What should be included in a social media plan
– The ground rules – the do’s and don’ts about social media in business
– How to find your audience on all major social media channels
– Evaluation of newer social media channels (Google Plus, Pininterest)
– How to build your brand on different social media channels
Who is it for?
This workshop is aimed at individuals who would like to develop a more structured social media plan that integrates with the business’ marketing plan
Click here for more info:
When I read the title of the webpage that led me to this video, several fast fleeting images came across my mind from those sci-fi hit movies like MINORITY REPORT, the MATRIX trilogy, and the TERMINATOR franchise.
Considering the advances of science in nano-technologies and artificial intelligence, maybe we are slowly but surely getting closer to some doomsday moment when our intellect’s creations will outwit us and destroy us all, and when no I-Robot movie character like Will Smith’s shall be around in a timely manner to save our sorry arses!
See the YouTube video!
Imitating nature to build a better (or possibly more terrifying) future. We’ve been trying to build flapping-wing robots for hundreds of years. And now, ornithopters are finally being developed, and may be used mostly for military purposes.
Original: http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/05/06/the-terrifying-promise-of-robot-bugs/
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– small keys; errors are unavoidable
The dramatic growth of al-Qa`ida affiliates in Syria is a direct result of its preexisting networks in Iraq. These networks were built in 2004 and 2005, became nearly dominant in 2006 and 2007, and then suffered a dramatic series of setbacks at the hands of the U.S. military and the famed Sunni Awakening. Those setbacks were a result of endogenous conditions and exogenous factors.[2] They were enough to deeply damage al-Qa`ida in Iraq (AQI),[3] but not enough to destroy it. As a result, when the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned violent in Syria, AQI was ready to take advantage in a country where the context was quite different than Iraq.
http://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/syria-proving-more-fertile-than-iraq-to-al-qaidas-operations
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Benjamin Franklin spent his mornings naked. Patricia Highsmith ate only bacon and eggs. Marcel Proust breakfasted on opium and croissants. The path to greatness is paved with a thousand tiny rituals (and a fair bit of substance abuse) – but six key rules emerge
Daily Rituals by Mason Currey – review
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/05/daily-rituals-creative-minds-mason-currey?CMP=fb_gu
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