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An intriguing article at The Atlantic describes a rather new and unique video game. An artificial self-created universe, with 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets to explore, bigger than any one of us, any population of us - and I'm including the world here, could hope to explore in our lifetime. The chances of running into another player - in your lifetime (in the game), are less than that of winning the 6/49. A curious premise, curious, too, as to how this algorithm evolves...
Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/artificial-universe-no-mans-sky/463308/
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A rather interesting article on how your body trains itself to respond to medicine:
http://mosaicscience.com/story/medicine-without-the-medicine-how-to-train-your-immune-system-placebo
Noteworthy in the study is how the mice died even when no poison was administered, the thought/association of dying was enough...
And there's this - the placebo effect is rising: http://www.nature.com/news/strong-placebo-response-thwarts-painkiller-trials-1.18511
Which raises some interesting questions about medicine in general. But I'll let you ask those on your own...
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A rather sinister expose of the civic incompetence of Flint, Michigan.
Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/who-poisoned-flint-michigan-20160122?page=6
Update: http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/30/michael-moore-flint/
Sounds bad, but this is what happens when you've made your living environment a toilet and given all your money to bankrupted corporations...
Oil Sands, Calgary anyone?
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Everything you ever suspected about corporations is true, and 99.9% of what you think you know about lawyers.
This is the story of Dupont, and .1% the exception to the lawyer rule:
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html?_r=0
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If you're older than 30, 40, 50, the older the better, you'll understand this. I discovered it a while ago, found the comfort to post it now:
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