# n-trade: the gross national product does not allow for

<< Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play.  It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials.  It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.  And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans. >>

Robert F. Kennedy. Kansas University,  March 18, 1968

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/RFK-Speeches/Remarks-of-Robert-F-Kennedy-at-the-University-of-Kansas-March-18-1968.aspx

# n-trade: how basic income can solve ...

<< We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they will hear a great deal in the years to come – namely, technological unemployment >>

Andrew White. How basic income can solve one of the digital economy’s biggest problems. January 22, 2016 10.55am GMT

https://theconversation.com/how-basic-income-can-solve-one-of-the-digital-economys-biggest-problems-53081

# e-sec: Sun Tzu style: unpredictable (chaotic) environment to defending cpu from cyber-attacks

<< We want our computers to perform the way we expect. But what if the key to defeating malware is introducing a bit of chaos? >>

<< Programs you know and trust could be approved to run in a standard environment where they'll function normally, while detected malware are sequestered in a third environment, called deceptive. Instead of squashing them immediately, Chameleon would let the malicious processes continue to work in a façade environment while collecting information that can be used to understand and defeat them >>

<< Predictable computer systems make life too easy for attackers >>

Alisson Clark, January 21, 2016

http://m.phys.org/news/2016-01-defending-cyber-attacks-sun-tzu-style.html

https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/690237559511846913

l'approccio "Sun Tzu  style" benche' antico sembrerebbe funzionale anche nell'ambito della sicurezza informatica ... quando le grandi idee ciclicamente riemergono dirompenti ...

# rmx-s-esobio: smarter ways to find them (!)

<< smarter ways to find them >>

https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/690006110120574976

<< The latest round starts this month, courtesy of a 10-year, $100 million project called Breakthrough Listen. Funded by tech entrepreneur Yuri Milner, it will set two of the world’s largest radio telescopes surveying the million closest stars across a broader swathe of the radio spectrum, and will cover 10 times as much sky as all previous searches combined >>

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22930560-800-how-to-find-et-7-ways-aliens-might-give-themselves-away/

<< $100 million project called Breakthrough Listen >>

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27923-100m-project-uses-worlds-best-radio-telescopes-to-find-aliens/

# s-acad: don’t fool yourself

<< Collectively, the message is: show your work, and don’t fool yourself with unreliable reagents or shoehorned data >>

Editorial. Repetitive flaws. Strict guidelines to improve the reproducibility of experiments are a welcome move. 20 January 2016.  Nature 529, 256 (21 Jan 2016) doi:10.1038/529256a

http://www.nature.com/news/repetitive-flaws-1.19192

# s-phys: knotted solitary waves: the begin

<< a team of physicists (..) has found a way to create knotted solitary waves, or knot solitons, in a quantum-mechanical field >>

<< Knots are defined mathematically as closed curves in 3D space. A knot soliton consists of an infinite number of rings, each linked with all of the others to generate a toroidal structure >>

<< This is the beginning of the story of quantum knots >>

http://www.sci-news.com/physics/physicists-create-quantum-knots-03569.html

D. S. Hall, M. W. Ray, et al. Tying quantum knots. Nature Physics (2016) doi:10.1038/nphys3624

http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphys3624.html

# s-age: epidemiology of veteran and non-veteran women

<< 13 new articles by Veterans Affairs researchers and colleagues are looking at differences in aging and mortality between veteran and non-veteran women >>

https://www.geron.org/press-releases/54-2016-press-releases/606-journal-makes-discoveries-on-women-veterans-long-term-health-outcomes

http://m.gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/Suppl_1.toc