# n-trade-bots: culled around 60.000, the begin ...

<< Kunshan,  in  Jiangsu  province,  undergoes  makeover  as  600 companies  look  to  trim  their  headcount >>

Rise  of  the  robots:  60,000  workers culled  from  just  one  factory  as China’s  struggling  electronics  hub turns  to  artificial  intelligence. South China Morning Post, 21  May,  2016,  9:50pm

http://m.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/1949918/rise-robots-60000-workers-culled-just-one-factory-chinas

<< Economists  have  issued  dire  warnings  about  how  automation  will  affect  the  job  market,  with  one report,  from  consultants  Deloitte  in  partnership  with  Oxford  University,  suggesting  that  35%  of jobs  were  at  risk  over  the  next  20  years. Former  McDonald's  chief  executive  Ed  Rensi  recently  told  the US's  Fox  Business  programme minimum-wage  increase  to  $15  an  hour  would  make  companies  consider  robot  workers. "It's  cheaper  to  buy  a  $35,000  robotic  arm  than  it  is  to  hire  an  employee  who  is  inefficient, making  $15  an  hour  bagging  French  fries"  he  said >>

Jane  Wakefield. Foxconn  replaces  '60,000  factory  workers with  robots. Technology  reporter, 25  May  2016

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36376966

FonT: tempo addietro avevo letto (e sentito) diverse opinioni che escludevano senz'altro l'uso di bot nella produzione industriale in Asia in generale e in Cina in particolare ... costo del lavoro basso, percio' uso di automazione industriale "assolutamente" non conveniente ...

# s-zoo: and now they’ve introduced it into

<< This is a very big predator, and now we’ve introduced it into Florida >> 9:00 PM 28 May 2016

https://twitter.com/NYTScience/status/736769076849217536

<< One  was  a hatchling  about  a  foot  long  sitting  on a  porch in Miami.  Another  was  found  on the property  of  a  private  zoo  in Homestead,  Fla.,  and  a  third,  a  10-pound  female,  was  captured  in a public  park,  also  in  Homestead. Finaly,  five  months  later,  in  March  2012,  a  three-foot-long  female  was  trapped  in a  canal  in Homestead >>

Nicholas Bakalar. Nile Crocodiles Found Really Far Out of Africa. In Florida. May 23, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/science/crocodiles-in-florida.html

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Casey Holliday,  University of Missouri. Scientists Find Surprise Lurking in Crocodilian Jaw Discovery of second jaw joint  ... Released: 30-Mar-2016 8:00 AM EDT

http://www.newswise.com/articles/scientists-find-surprise-lurking-in-crocodilian-jaw

FonT: appena sveglio, gli occhi cisposi,  col caffe' e un cornetto in mano, caldi,  e un  gigantesco cocco in veranda, immobile, che ti guarda ... tocca al  cocco sognare ...

<< lizard, an ancient dreamer >>

http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2016/05/s-brain-evol-lizard-ancient-dreamer.html

# s-phys: a second box for the cat

<< This cat is big and smart. It doesn’t stay in one box because the quantum state is shared between the two cavities and cannot be described separately (..) One can also take an alternative view, where we have two small and simple Schrodinger’s cats, one in each box, that are entangled >> Chen Wang.

Jim  Shelton. Doubling down  on  Schrodinger’s  cat. May  26,  2016.

http://news.yale.edu/2016/05/26/doubling-down-schr-dinger-s-cat

Chen Wang , Yvonne Y. Gao,  et al. A Schrodinger  cat  living  in  two  boxes. Science, 2016; 352 (6289): 1087 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf2941

http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf2941

# rmx-s-esobio: magical superflares

<< Our sun, worshipped by ancient civilizations, wasn’t just a source of warmth, it also produced ingredients for life >> Vladimir Airapetian

Thomas Sumner. Young sun’s super solar flares helped set early Earth up for life. Particle blasts could have created molecules to warm planet seed DNA. 11:00 AM, May 23, 2016.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/young-sun%E2%80%99s-super-solar-flares-helped-set-early-earth-life

<< Nitrogen  is  a  critical  ingredient  of  complex  biological  molecules >>

<< nitrogen  fixation  in  the  early  terrestrial  atmosphere  can  be  explained  by  frequent  and  powerful coronal  mass  ejection  events  from  the  young  Sun — so-called  superflares >>

V.S. Airapetian,  A. Glocer, et al. Prebiotic  chemistry  and  atmospheric  warming  of early  Earth  by  an  active  young  Sun. Nature  Geoscience   (2016)   doi:10.1038/ngeo2719  Publ.  online  23  May  2016

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2719.html

# p-trade: three, four, or five, or else mattress

<< I know that my investors want three, four, or five percent, or else they can keep it in the bank or stuff it in their mattress >>. Bill Gross.

John Gittelsohn. Gross Trying to Short Credit to Reverse Decades of Instinct. May 26, 2016 — 11:42 AM EDT

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-26/gross-trying-to-short-credit-to-reverse-four-decades-of-instinct

Laura Naka Antonelli. Gross, il Re dei Bond “costretto” a shortare obbligazioni. 27 maggio 2016.

http://www.wallstreetitalia.com/gross-il-re-dei-bond-costretto-a-shortare-obbligazioni/

# s-zen-tai-chi: comparative effectiveness of tai chi versus physical therapy for knee osteoarthritis (by nccih.nih.gov)

<< For  patients  with  painful  knee  osteoarthritis,  tai  chi  was  as  helpful  as  physical  therapy  in  reducing  pain and  improving  physical  functioning,  according  to  a  new  study  partially  funded  by  the  National  Center for  Complementary  and  Integrative  Health [NIH-NCCIH] >>

<< Previous  research (..)  has  shown  that  tai  chi—a  traditional Chinese  mind  and  body  practice  that  combines  meditation  with  deep  breathing,  relaxation,  and  gentle movements—can  reduce  pain  and  improve  physical  functioning  in  patients  with  knee  osteoarthritis, but  this  is  the  first  study  in  which  tai  chi  was  compared  with  a  standard  treatment  that’s  known  to  be helpful >>

Study Shows Tai Chi and Physical Therapy Were Equaly  Helpful  for  Knee Osteoarthritis. May  17,  2016.

https://nccih.nih.gov/research/results/spotlight/tai-chi-knee-osteoarthritis_2016

Wang  C ,  Schmid  CH , et al. Comparative  Effectiveness  of  Tai  Chi  Versus  Physical  Therapy  for  Knee Osteoarthritis:  A  Randomized  Trial. Ann.  Intern. Med. 2016  May  17.  doi:  10.7326/M15-2143.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27183035

# s-acad: medical error in US hospitals

<< Medical  error  in  hospitals  is  the  third  leading  cause  of  death  in  the  U.S.  after  heart  disease  and cancer  -  an  estimated  210,000  to  400,000  deaths  a  year >>

Warning:  Your  hospital  may  kill  you  and  they  won’t  report  it. May  9,  2016.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/warning-your-hospital-may-kill-you-and-they-wont-report-it

<< Medical  error  is  not  included  on  death  certificates  or  in  rankings  of  cause  of  death >>

Makary MA, Daniel M. Medical  error - the  third  leading  cause  of  death  in  the  US. BMJ  2016 May 3;353:i2139. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i2139.

http://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i2139