# p-eu-trade: Noam Chomsky: specifically, the target of the sadism

<< The target of the sadism is not the Greek people specifically, but anyone who dares to imagine that people might have rights that begin to compare with those of financial institutions and investors. >>

C.J. Polychronio. Noam Chomsky on Europe’s Refugee Crisis and the Endless Greek Debt Drama. Jan 27, 2016

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/01/27/noam-chomsky-on-europes-refugee-crisis-and-the-endless-greek-debt-drama/

Laura Naka Antonelli. Violenza e rabbia: Grecia torna a bruciare. L’accusa di Chomsky. 5 febbraio 2016

http://www.wallstreetitalia.com/violenza-e-rabbia-la-grecia-torna-a-bruciare/

# s-soc: altmetric "click | tap" for assessing a new impact factor in soc res

<< Overall, the study shows the potential of  blog citations as an altmetric measure and  as a proxy for assessing the research impact. >>

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281719493_Blog_Citations_as_Indicators_of_the_Societal_Impact_of_Research_Content_Analysis_of_Social_Sciences_Blogs

Hamid R. Jamali, Dariush Alimohammadi. Blog Citations as Indicators of the Societal Impact of Research: Content Analysis of Social Sciences Blogs.  International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology 06/2015; 5(1):15-32. DOI: 10.5865/IJKCT.2015.5.1.015

http://koreascience.or.kr/article/ArticleFullRecord.jsp?cn=JSKTBN_2015_v5n1_15

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmetrics

http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/

# s-zen-art-chem-tech: Miura-ori approach to self- tessellations

<< Harvard scientist L. Mahadevan and his team have devised a way to make virtually any shape out of a flat sheet of paper, using a fundamental origami or tessellation fold >>

http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-make-almost-any-shape-out-of-a-flat-sheet-of-paper

Levi H. Dudte, Etienne Vouga, et al. Programming curvature using origami tessellations. Nature Materials (2016) doi:10.1038/nmat4540

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmat4540.html

# rmx-s-brain: decoding in real time to recognize

<< (..) scientists have decoded brain signals (representing images) at nearly the speed of perception for the first time— enabling the scientists to predict in real time which images of faces and houses the patients were viewing and when, and with better than 95 percent accuracy >>

http://www.kurzweilai.net/scientists-decode-brain-signals-to-recognize-images-in-real-time

<< Here we show that electrical potentials from the ventral temporal cortical surface in humans contain sufficient information for spontaneous and near-instantaneous identification of a subject’s perceptual state >>

Miller KJ, Schalk G, et al. Spontaneous Decoding of the Timing and Content of Human Object Perception from Cortical Surface Recordings Reveals Complementary Information in the Event-Related Potential and Broadband Spectral Change. PLoS Comput Biol 2016; 12(1): e1004660. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004660

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004660

# rmx-s-ai-gst: is singularity near?

<< Is the Singularity near? “Yes, depending on what you mean by ‘near’ … It may well be, within our lifetimes.” >>

Kurzweil Interviews Minsky: Is Singularity Near? January 27, 2016

http://www.kurzweilai.net/kurzweil-interviews-minsky-is-singularity-near

# rmx-e-bot: Gregg' "uncanny valley"

<< What’s uncanny is not that we can’t tell whether it’s human or AI, or in what proportion. We can’t tell what it’s been programmed to do to us. Is it trying to steal our identity or sell us a Snorg tee? >>

Gregg Murray, Am I bot or not? Deconstructing the "uncanny valley". January 27, 2016

http://www.kurzweilai.net/am-i-bot-or-not

# rmx-s-phyto: Dionaea muscipula, with precision

<< Carnivorous plants stir the imagination. You can find the results in science fiction novels (“The Day of the Triffids”), Broadway plays(“Little Shop of Horrors”) and in recent research that concludes that the Venus flytrap can count. Not out loud, of course. And no one is claiming that the plants are aware that they are counting. But even so, this is the first time someone has demonstrated counting in a plant >>

James Gorman. The Venus Flytrap, a Plant That Can Count. nyt-sciencetake, Feb. 1, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/science/the-venus-flytrap-a-plant-that-can-count.html

Sönke Scherzer, Elzbieta Krol, et al. The Venus Flytrap Dionaea muscipula Counts Prey-Induced Action Potentials to Induce Sodium Uptake. Current Biology. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.057

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(15)01501-8