# s-evol: #DarwinDay: un esempio di fossile transizionale ...

<< One of the many fossils that proves evolution - in 60 seconds.
#DarwinDay
https://t.co/xRisGUexdL >>

https://twitter.com/BBCEarth/status/698138697242312704

# s-astro: 100 years after ... first tracks of gravitational waves ...

tweet:

https://twitter.com/LIGO/status/697805846726713345

news:

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20160211

paper:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

Einstein' gravitational waves: first two  papers:

Einstein, A. "Näherungsweise Integration der Feldgleichungen der Gravitation". Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin. 2016, June. part 1: 688–696.

Einstein, A. "Über Gravitationswellen". Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Berlin. 1918,  part 1: 154–167.

http://einstein-annalen.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/related_texts/sitzungsberichte

apropos di onde, una rima (quasistocastica) su Maxwell: 1848-onda parametrica, Novembre 29, 2004

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2004/11/1848-onda-parametrica.html

# n-soc-bot: in the sign of Turing: the dawn of aware machines ...

<< Ray Kurzweil (..) spoke to an audience during a session last summer about a few of the political and philosophical implications of AI when he was asked, “In a world where AI passes the Turing test, who gets to vote? Does democracy make sense?” >>

Andrew O'Keefeon. Ray Kurzweil on Giving Future AI the Right to Vote [Video]. Jan 10, 2016

http://singularityhub.com/2016/01/10/ray-kurzweil-on-giving-future-ai-the-right-to-vote-video/

a mio avviso una macchina AI ha almeno cinque caratteristiche che la differenziano da un umano, almeno in prima approx:

1. AI puo' essere presente piu' di qualsiasi umano, sia nel reale che nel virtuale;

2. e' ubiqua

3. e' instancabile

4. e' immortale

5. puo' lavorare "sottotraccia"  in modalita' autonoma, anonima, criptica, di difficile se non impossibile intercettazione

a una "entita'" con queste caratteristiche cosa serve votare ?

# rmx-s-chem-nano: digital alchemy, a new frontier ...

<< Alchemy left the mainstream centuries ago, but one of its core concepts, transmuting the elements, is experiencing a revival in nanotechnology >>

http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=41725.php

<< (..) how to exploit the malleability of the valence of colloidal nanoparticle “elements” to directly and quantitatively link building-block attributes to bulk structure through a statistical thermodynamic framework we term “digital alchemy” >>

Greg van Anders, Daphne Klotsa et al., Digital Alchemy for Materials Design: Colloids and Beyond. ACS Nano, 2015, 9 (10), pp 9542–9553. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04181

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.5b04181

# s-chem: bimetallic nanodot arrays and electrochemical bias to ‘Chameleon’ plasmonic skin camouflage

<< [AA] have developed a way to produce colour-tuneable plasmonic metal nanostructures. They consist of a layer of nano-sized gold domes coated with a gel containing silver ions, all of which are sandwiched between two electrodes. Applying a positive voltage between the electrodes binds the silver ions to the gold domes, changing the characteristic plasmon reflectivity from red to green and finally blue; reversing the voltage takes the reflectivity back to the red end of the spectrum. >>

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/02/camouflage-plasmonic-skin-nanostructure-colour-change

Guoping Wang, Xuechen Chen, et al. Mechanical Chameleon through Dynamic Real-Time Plasmonic Tuning. ACS Nano, Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b07472

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsnano.5b07472

# s-softw: a user-friendly computational modeling approach: COMSOL

<< COMSOL Multiphysics® software (..) allows (..) to focus (..) without requiring foreknowledge of the underlying model. >>

<< (..)  is able to link to legacy programs written in Java®, FORTRAN, and C. >>

http://www.comsol.com/showcase/application-builder

# p-trade: perpetual comics inside dramas

<< E’ la vendetta del Frankenstein monetario. Ma oggi zia Janet prometterà nuovo metadone? #Azioni #Finanza #Forex https://t.co/K04LznO3nB >>

https://twitter.com/FXS_Finance_IT/status/697215509759160321

Mauro Bottarelli, 10 febbraio 2016

http://www.rischiocalcolato.it/2016/02/la-vendetta-del-frankenstein-monetario-oggi-zia-janet-promettera-metadone.html