Such bold optimismmm... youtube.com/watch?v=2bguEi…

1 France, Macron & Islam: there is gulf of misunderstanding over this now. Many in developing countries do not understand history of French laicité, influenced by strong strand of anticlericalism, that underpins the tradition of satire and disrespect towards authority of any kind

2. And few non-Muslims have any comprehension of just how very offensive insulting depictions of the Prophet are to Muslims, many of whom see them, not unreasonably, as deliberate provocations that just cannot be ignored

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An interesting visualization of 35 years of world’s economy evolving as a living organism [source: bit.ly/2g9ulga]

The art of war youtube.com/watch?v=wLLAWi…

Religion Isn’t The Enemy of Science: It’s Been Inspiring Scientists for Centuries ancient-origins.net/human-origins-…

Stare at the red dot on her nose for 30 seconds, then look at a plain wall while blinking fast and discover what is an afterimage: bit.ly/2FcSKeu

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A first for hollow-core optical fiber. It's clearer than solid glass for red light. laserfocusworld.com/fiber-optics/a… That may sound odd, but I explain why it's important.

Do we take #vaccines for granted? Our latest video with @BBCIdeas looks at what the world might look like without them:

An image conduit is a rigid fiber optic rod designed to transmit a coherent image from one end face to the opposite end face buff.ly/2GwWfQY [source of the gif: buff.ly/2Grcyyq] [where you can buy it: buff.ly/2q1NbrW]

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Russia: we’ll leave International Space Station and build our own theguardian.com/science/2021/a…

1,200-year-old telephone, amazing invention of the ancient Chimu civilization ancient-origins.net/artifacts-anci…

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Read about Michael Levin Tufts University in "Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs" The New Yorker. Levin is continuing and extending the work of Robert O Becker (1923-2008) Will Levin "crash and burn" or "do something really fundamentally important"? newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

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The distinction between "supervised" and "unsupervised" learning is fundamentally superficial -- an artifact of the semantics of the last couple decades of ML. All learning is guided by an objective (including all forms of ML and all forms of human learning).