# n-ethno-behav: a (quasi-) long-term persistence: the "big man"

<< Muscular  men  perceived  to  be  better  leaders  than  physically  weak  ones >>

http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/news-release/want-be-seen-leader-get-some-muscle

Lukaszewski, Aaron W., Simmons, Zachary L., et al. The Role of Physical Formidability in Human Social Status Allocation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Dec 14 , 2015.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000042

more:

the big man "mumi":

Douglas Olivier. A Solomon Island Society: Kinship and Leadership among the Siuai of Bouganville. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955

# s-gst: modulational instabilities

<< Modulational instability has been known since the 1960s. When you have small perturbations at the input, you’ll have big changes at the output >>

Now <<  it appears that (AA) have captured the essence of the phenomenon >>

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2016/02/042.html

Gino Biondini, Dionyssios Mantzavinos. Universal Nature of the Nonlinear Stage of Modulational Instability. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 043902 – Published 27 January 20

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.043902

# s-gst: tracing nonlocal surreal behaviors ...

<< (..) particles at the quantum level can in fact be seen as behaving something like billiard balls rolling along a table, and not merely as the probabilistic smears that the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests. But there’s a catch – the tracks the particles follow do not always behave as one would expect from “realistic” trajectories, but often in a fashion that has been termed “surrealistic” >>

http://www.cifar.ca/assets/researchers-demonstrate-quantum-surrealism/

Dylan H. Mahler, Lee Rozema, et al. Experimental nonlocal and surreal Bohmian trajectories. Science Advances  19 Feb 2016:
Vol. 2, no. 2, e1501466. DOI: 10.1126/science.1501466

http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1501466

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/2/e1501466.full-text.pdf+html

# e-web-sec: IoT comes to (hack to) the Masses; the begin

<< Internet of Things, aka “IoT” is all the rage. You know, all these new connected things like Nest thermostats, Hue lights, digital door locks and other devices that have lights, sensors, motors or switches, along with a small computer and are connected to the Internet.>>

<< On Monday (Feb. 8), building IoT-based devices is going to get a lot easier and cheaper thanks to Particle.io >>

Robert Scoble. Internet of Things Comes to the Masses. February 12, 2016

http://www.kurzweilai.net/robert-scoble-internet-of-things-comes-to-the-masses

# n-tech: impact of automation, up to 85% of jobs at risk

<< A new report from the Oxford Martin School considers the risks of job automation to developing countries, estimated to range from 55% in Uzbekistan to 85% in Ethiopia — a substantial share in major emerging economies, including China and India (77% and 69% respectively) >>

<< 47% of US jobs are at risk from automation, but not all cities have the same job risk  >>

<< The Future Is Not What It Used to Be >>

http://www.kurzweilai.net/impact-of-automation-puts-up-to-85-of-jobs-in-developing-countries-at-risk

full report:

http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/reports/Citi_GPS_Technology_Work_2.pdf

l'immagine del bot che contempla un volo di farfalle e' senz'altro suggestiva ...

# rmx-s-brain: now you can learn; the begin.

<< You can learn how to improve your novice pilot skills by having your brain zapped with recorded brain patterns of experienced pilots via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) >>

<< We measured the brain activity patterns of six commercial and military pilots, and then transmitted these patterns into novice subjects as they learned to pilot an airplane in a realistic flight simulator >>

http://www.kurzweilai.net/now-you-can-learn-to-fly-a-plane-from-expert-pilot-brainwave-patterns

Jaehoon Choe, Brian A. Coffman, et al. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Neuronal Activity and Learning in Pilot Training. Front. Hum. Neurosci., 09 February 2016; DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00034 (open access)

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00034/full

# s-chem: a metal that behaves like water

<<  graphene’s two-dimensional, honeycomb structure acts like an electron superhighway in which all the particles have to travel in the same lane. The electrons in this ultra-clean graphene act like massless relativistic objects, some with positive charge and some with negative charge. They move at incredible speed — 1/300 of the speed of light — and have been predicted to collide with each other ten trillion times a second at room temperature.  These intense interactions between charge particles have never been observed in an ordinary metal before >>

<< When the strongly interacting particles in graphene were driven by an electric field, they behaved not like individual particles but like a fluid that could be described by hydrodynamics >>

http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-black-hole-on-a-chip-made-of-a-metal-that-behaves-like-water

Jesse Crossno, Jing K. Shi, et al. Observation of the Dirac fluid and the breakdown of the Wiedemann-Franz law in graphene. Science 11 Feb 2016 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad0343

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/02/10/science.aad0343