AA << speak to a researcher who's fascinated by what happens to people who turn game playing into a career >>
Annabel Bligh, Emily Lindsay Brown, et al. Anthill 13: All the world’s a game. May 17, 2017 10.04am BST
http://theconversation.com/anthill-13-all-the-worlds-a-game-77763
https://theconversation.com/uk/topics/gaming-1806
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1618 - etica d'inversione. May 26, 2005 12:16 AM
http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2005/05/1618-etica-dinversione.html
<< L'obiettivo vero da raggiungere non è il reddito per tutti, ma il lavoro per tutti. Perché senza lavoro per tutti non ci sarà dignità per tutti >>
Anna Maria Brogi, Ilaria Solaini. Genova. Papa Francesco: «Lavoro per tutti, non reddito per tutti».
27 Mag 2017
https://www.avvenire.it/papa/pagine/papa-francesco-a-genova-ilva-vescovi-giovani-pediatria-messa
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Anche senza fare conti l'ipotetico reddito di cittadinanza esteso a tutti i cittadini italiani maggiorenni, di (ad esempio) 1500 - 2000 euro mensili contro una eventuale disponibilita' formativa/ lavorativa di circa 3 ore al giorno costerebbe meno, molto ma molto meno alla comunita' della creazione artificiale, campata in aria, di lavori che gia' oggi (senz'altro domani) l'automazione puo' espletare a bassissimi costi e con senz'altro piu' elevate accuratezza e riproducibilita'. Anche senza essere Nobel di "Scienze" Economiche chiunque lo puo' capire. Anche venti / trent'anni fa ... Entro una quindicina d'anni sara' cosa ovvia.
<< The weaker interaction causes the molecules to slide past each other and dislocate during crystal growth, resulting in an unusual, irregular crystal. According to Guoquing Zhang, ‘at room temperature, there is a high probability that crystal growth will be dictated by random fluctuations, resulting in a curvy fractal structure’ >>
Thomas Foley. Fractal crystals win fashion design contest. 14 May 2017
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/fractal-crystals-win-fashion-design-contest/3007277.article
<< The crystals of 1-(4-methoxyphenyl)-3-(pyridin-2-yl)propane-1,3-dione exhibited rarely seen curved fractal structures under an optical microscope. Weak intermolecular interactions may result in dislocation during crystal growth and thus the irregular crystalline structures. The micrographs of the crystals were exploited for their artistic value and were transferred onto fabrics for application in fashion design. >>
Zongzheng Qian, Dongxue Li, et al. Curved fractal structures of pyridine-substituted β-diketone crystals. CrystEngComm. 2017, 19, 2283-2287. doi: 10.1039/C7CE00462A
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2017/CE/C7CE00462A#!divAbstract
<< a typical globular protein [the synaptic protein PSD-95] is able to undergo significant changes in volume under native conditions while exhibiting no additional changes in protein structure.These native state volume fluctuations were found to correlate with changes in internal motions that were previously recognized as a source of allosteric entropy. This finding offers a novel mechanistic basis for allostery in the absence of canonical structural change. >>
Anthony B. Law, Paul J. Sapienza, et al. Native State Volume Fluctuations in Proteins as a Mechanism for Dynamic Allostery. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139 (10), pp 3599–3602 doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b12058
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.6b12058
Jeff Hansen. 'Rosetta Stone' protein offers new mechanism of allostery. May 24, 2017
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-rosetta-stone-protein-mechanism-allostery.html
<< The surprise in this process was the seemingly uncoordinated way in which it happens. 'The idea in the field was that there were two channels through which plastoquinone could pass - one would be the entrance, the other the exit', says Marrink [Siewert J. Marrink]. As it turned out, there were three channels which could all be used to enter or leave the complex. >>
<< Any plastoquinone molecules in the membrane would quickly enter the photosystem II (PSII) complex, but might leave it again without electrons, or hover around inside the complex for a while before finally binding in the exchange cavity, where it could accept electrons. Marrink: 'It is all very much dominated by entropy.' >>
University of Groningen. Molecular dynamics simulations reveal chaos in electron transport. ScienceDaily. 10 May 2017.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170510075547.htm
Floris J. Van Eerden, Manuel N. Melo, et al. Exchange pathways of plastoquinone and plastoquinol in the photosystem II complex. Nature Communications 8, Article number: 15214 (2017) doi: 10.1038/ncomms15214
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15214
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<< Nature turned out to be less orderly than we had assumed >> afferma Siewert J. Marrink. Percio' anche il classico vasetto della nonna contenente la classica piantina talvolta perfino stitichella, sarebbe testimonianza, per un aspetto decisamente peculiare, fondamentale della sua normale fisiologia (la fotosintesi clorofilliana), di pulsatile motore caotico ...
<< The cells [live cells that can release insulin] were then embedded with tiny LED lights inside a hydrogel and transplanted under the skin of diabetic mice. And—get this—the entire system was controlled with a custom Android app, which remotely turns on the implanted LEDs and activates insulin-producing cells based on the level of circulating blood sugar levels. >>
Shelly Fan. These Cells Are Engineered to Be Controlled by a Smartphone. May 11, 2017.
https://singularityhub.com/2017/05/11/these-cells-are-engineered-to-be-controlled-by-a-smartphone/
<< With the increasingly dominant role of smartphones in our lives ... >>
Jiawei Shao, Shuai Xue, et al. Smartphone-controlled optogenetically engineered cells enable semiautomatic glucose homeostasis in diabetic mice. Science Translat Med 26 Apr 2017: Vol. 9, Issue 387, eaal2298
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aal2298
AA << propose that the trap is a Frenkel exciton state formed much below the main exciton band edge due to an environmentally induced heavy-tailed Lévy disorder. This points to disorder engineering as a new avenue in controlling light-harvesting in molecular ensembles >>
Merdasa A, Jiménez Á, et al. Single
Lévy states-disorder induced energy funnels in molecular aggregates. Nano Lett. 2014 Dec 10;14(12):6774-81. doi: 10.1021/nl5021188. Epub 2014 Nov 7. PubMed PMID:
25349900.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl5021188
also
"Frenkel exciton state" in:
https://journals.aps.org/search/
https://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+AND+state+AND+Frenkel+exciton/0/1/0/all/0/1
<< quelli (i requisiti) sono solo la precondizione, il bello viene adesso >> Cedric Villani.
Stefano Montefiori. Francia, il candidato matematico «Uniremo elite e popolo» Cedric Villani alle politiche con «En Marche»
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questo post meriterebbe una rima (quasistocastica senz'altro [inkpi.blogspot.it]) ma sembrerebbe sparare con tromboncino armato di katyusha contro una postazione di pazienti di Medici Senza Frontiere, percio' mi astengo ...
<< The isolation of a growing number of two-dimensional (2D) materials has inspired worldwide efforts to integrate distinct 2D materials into van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures >>
<< the vdW heterostructure concept can be extended to include the integration of 2D materials with non-2D materials that adhere primarily through non-covalent interactions >>
Deep Jariwala, Tobin J. Marks & Mark C. Hersam. Mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures. Nature Materials 16, 170–181 (2017) doi:10.1038/nmat4703.
https://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n2/full/nmat4703.html
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teoria dei sistemi prevede, senz'altro in prima approx, il trasferimento, l'esportazione di concetti e modelli tra differenti contesti, anche lontani tra loro ...
cfr: Ludwig von Bertalanffy. General System Theory (1969). Teoria generale dei sistemi. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore SpA Milano (1983).
<< Shortest versus smallest isn’t actually a question of grammatical punctiliousness. Different languages frame time differently. Swedish and English speakers, for example, tend to think of time in terms of distance—what a long day, we say. Time becomes an expanse one has to traverse. Spanish and Greek speakers, on the other hand, tend to think of time in terms of volume—what a full day, they exclaim. Time becomes a container to be filled >>
Kendra Pierre-Louis. The language you speak changes your perception of time. TIME IS RELATIVE. May 9, 2017.
http://www.popsci.com/language-time-perception
<< These results reveal the malleable nature of human time representation as part of a highly adaptive information processing system >>
Bylund E , Athanasopoulos P. The Whorfian Time Warp: Representing Duration Through the Language Hourglass. J Exp Psychol Gen. 2017 Apr 27. doi: 10.1037/xge0000314.
<< Hydrogen bonds are much weaker than chemical bonds, but stronger than intermolecular van der Waals interactions >>
<< With this study, [AA] have opened up new ways to identify three-dimensional molecules such as nucleic acids or polymers via observation of hydrogen atoms >>
Hydrogen bonds directly detected for the first time. May 12, 2017
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-hydrogen-bonds.html
Shigeki Kawai, Tomohiko Nishiuchi, et al. Direct quantitative measurement of the C═O⋅⋅⋅H–C bond by atomic force microscopy. Science Advances. 12 May 2017:Vol. 3, no. 5, e1603258 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1603258
<< it will be illustrated how some common factors of psychotherapeutic change and psychological hypotheses on motivation, emotion regulation, and information processing of the client's functioning can be integrated into a comprehensive nonlinear model of human change processes >>
Schiepek GK, Viol K, et al. Psychotherapy Is Chaotic-(Not Only) in a Computational World. Front Psychol. 2017 Apr 24; 8: 379. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00379.eCollection 2017.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00379/full
<< The mysterious nature of FRBs (fast radio burst) has led to a host of theories regarding their nature, from supernova to intelligent alien communications >>
<< In any event, study of FRBs is likely to increase as the mystery deepens and new telescope technology emerges—some have even suggested that it is possible that FRBs are much more common than has been shown, and that once they are observed more regularly, researchers can focus on looking at patterns >>
Bob Yirka. Latest fast radio burst adds to mystery of their source. May 12, 2017
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-latest-fast-radio-mystery-source.html
E. Petroff, S. Burke-Spolaor, et al
A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude. arXiv:1705.02911. May 8, 2017
<< Admittedly, large doses of bitcrushing can be hard to swallow. But applied judiciously, the effect can animate an arrangement with unexpected colors and quirky rhythmic glitches >>
<< Bitcrushing is the hydrochloric acid of audio >>
Joe Gore. The Recording Guitarist: Breaking Bits. May 11, 2017
https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/25572-the-recording-guitarist-breaking-bits
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcrusher
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<< But applied judiciously >> osserva Joe; giusto quello che si dovrebbe tenere a mente se, per ipotesi, in modo piu' o meno in-consapevole, si intendessero manifestare serialita' "bitcrushing" in contesti altri ...
<< 65 percent of children just now beginning school will find themselves working jobs as adults that don't exist today >>
<< technology could automate 45 percent of the tasks people are currently paid to do >>
<< Jobs requiring higher-order skills, such as creativity, emotional intelligence and analytical thinking are more difficult to automate and are most likely to stick around longer >>
<< educators need to focus on three core 21st-century skills: complex problem solving, critical thinking and collaboration >>
Raya Bidshahri. These 5 Big Tech Trends Are Changing the Way We Learn. May 02, 2017.
https://singularityhub.com/2017/05/02/these-5-big-tech-trends-are-changing-the-way-we-learn/
Le tre forme di poesia per Ferlinghetti: << la poesia sdraiata, la poesia seduta, la poesia in piedi (...) il poeta in piedi e' il sovversivo che attacca pacificamente il barbaro status quo >>
America tra le righe. Controcultura. Episodio 6. RAI5. May 10, 2017 h02:30
<< Dopo un memorabile incontro (..) arriva alla Costa del Pacifico, al Golden Gate e a San Francisco per conoscere Lawrence Ferlinghetti >>
http://www.raiplay.it/video/2017/02/AMERICA-TRA-LE-RIGHE-a6e794a2-5dd6-4ca6-af79-9d142bea9031.html
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geniale, ispirato Ferlinghetti; alla sua tipologia si puo' aggiungere un quarto tipo di poesia: la poetica "quasistocastica", poetica che puo' contenere comodamente le tre da Lui citate piu' qualcos'altro ...
Una intelligenza artificiale forse anche di "media forza" questa cosa qui la "penetrera'" in una manciata di nanosec, I suppose ...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti
Poetica quasistocastica
<< Estonia wants to clear beaver dams from its border with Russia to prevent smugglers and other illegal activity >>
<< On average, 30 beaver dams are removed from the border every year >>
The entity supporting crimes (photo)
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/375/cpsprodpb/EDFC/production/_95942906_gettyimages-52465936.jpg
News From Elsewhere. Estonia faces cross-border beaver problem. 8 May 2017.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39837088
more:
<< la minima deviazione ti porta fuori strada di mille miglia >>
Yung Chia Hsuan Chueh. Cheng tao ko. In: Sheng -Yen. La poesia dell'illuminazione. Astrolabio. Ubaldini Ed. Roma. (2001) p.83.
<< Protesters from the Action Station group launched 50 inflatable poo emojis onto Lake Ohakuri on the Waikato River near to where the ruling National Party was holding a conference, to highlight new standards which it says would mean more contaminants in freshwater, the New Zealand Herald reports >>
'Poo protest' against New Zealand government. 7 May 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39835394
https://twitter.com/BBCNewsAsia/status/861165092280438788
Russell Blackstock. Flotilla of inflatable poos launched by water protesters. Sat. 06 May 2017.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11851116
<< Professor Stephen Hawking will present his predictions that the human race only has one hundred years before we need to colonise another planet >>
Tomorrow's World. BBC and partners launch year of science and technology. Date: 02.05.2017 Last updated: 02.05.2017 at 12.48
http://www.bbc.com/corporate2/mediacentre/mediapacks/tomorrows-world
<< Replacing half of the meat eaten worldwide with crickets and mealworms would cut farmland use by a third, substantially reducing emissions of greenhouse gases >>
Edible insects could play key role in cutting harmful emissions. May 4, 2017.
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-edible-insects-key-role-emissions.html
Peter Alexander, Calum Brown, et al. Could consumption of insects, cultured meat or imitation meat reduce global agricultural land use? Global Food Security. 22 Apr. 2017. doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2017.04.001
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912417300056
<< At Psychedelic Science 2017, the international scientific community came together at the Oakland Marriott City Center in Oakland, Calif., to explore new research into the benefits and risks of MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, ketamine, ibogaine, medical marijuana, and more >>
Apr. 19-24, 2017. Oakland, California, USA.
http://psychedelicscience.org/
Maurizio Martucci. Dagli Usa arriva la conferma: le sostanze psichedeliche sono curative. 3 Mag. 2017.
also:
# s-brain: 70-years after; Dr. Albert revisited. 22 Ago. 2016.
http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2016/08/s-brain-70-years-after-dr-albert.html
<< the fuzzy dark matter model may be a viable alternative to cold dark matter >>
Is dark matter 'fuzzy'? April 28, 2017.
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-dark-fuzzy.html
<< One alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm is the scalar field dark matter (SFDM) model >>
<< If the dark matter is indeed an ultra-light boson, our results imply that the DM [dark matter] haloes of galaxies and galaxy clusters may not be fully BEC [Bose-Einstein condensates ] systems. In contrast, agreement with observations at different mass scales is achievable for multistate SFDM configurations >>
Tula Bernal, Victor H. Robles and Tonatiuh Matos. Scalar field dark matter in clusters of galaxies. arXiv:1609.08644v3 [astro-ph.CO] 30 Apr 2017. Preprint 2nd May 2017.
<< and — voilà! pretty soon your laces are flopping around, looking like overcooked spaghetti >>
<< It’s catastrophic. Every day >>
Christopher Mele. Do Your Shoelaces Keep Coming Undone? Engineers Explain Why. Apr. 13, 2017.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/science/why-shoelaces-undone-untied.html
