s-ecol: inflatable poo emojis (onto Lake Ohakuri) to underline new standards

<< Protesters from the Action Station group launched 50 inflatable poo emojis onto Lake Ohakuri on the Waikato River near to where the ruling National Party was holding a conference, to highlight new standards which it says would mean more contaminants in freshwater, the New Zealand Herald reports >>

'Poo protest' against New Zealand government. 7 May 2017

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39835394

https://twitter.com/BBCNewsAsia/status/861165092280438788

Russell Blackstock. Flotilla of  inflatable poos launched by water protesters. Sat. 06  May 2017.

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11851116

# s-astro: a Stephen "prophecy" (update): not 1000 but 100 years only to abandon ...

<< Professor Stephen Hawking will present his predictions that the human race only has one hundred years before we need to colonise another planet >>

Tomorrow's World. BBC and partners launch year of science and technology. Date: 02.05.2017     Last updated: 02.05.2017 at 12.48

http://www.bbc.com/corporate2/mediacentre/mediapacks/tomorrows-world

# s-food: hunter-gatherers revisited: eating crickets and mealworms

<< Replacing half of the meat eaten worldwide with crickets and mealworms would cut farmland use by a third, substantially reducing emissions of greenhouse gases >>

Edible insects could play key role in cutting harmful emissions. May 4, 2017.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-05-edible-insects-key-role-emissions.html

Peter Alexander, Calum Brown, et al. Could consumption of insects, cultured meat or imitation meat reduce global agricultural land use? Global Food Security. 22 Apr. 2017. doi:10.1016/j.gfs.2017.04.001

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211912417300056

# s-brain: Dr. Albert revisited (2): Psychedelic Science 2017

<< At Psychedelic Science 2017, the international scientific community came together at the Oakland Marriott City Center in Oakland, Calif., to explore new research into the benefits and risks of MDMA, LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, ketamine, ibogaine, medical marijuana, and more >>

Apr. 19-24, 2017. Oakland, California, USA.

http://psychedelicscience.org/

Maurizio  Martucci. Dagli  Usa  arriva  la  conferma:  le sostanze  psichedeliche  sono  curative.  3  Mag.  2017.

http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/05/03/dagli-usa-arriva-la-conferma-le-sostanze-psichedeliche-sono-curative/3559875/

also:

# s-brain: 70-years after; Dr. Albert revisited. 22 Ago. 2016.

http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2016/08/s-brain-70-years-after-dr-albert.html

# s-phys: a fuzzy matter: dancing with fuzzy multistate haloes, a hypothesis.

<< the fuzzy dark matter model may be a viable alternative to cold dark matter >>

Is dark matter 'fuzzy'? April 28, 2017.

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-dark-fuzzy.html

<< One alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm is the scalar field dark matter (SFDM) model >>

<< If the dark matter is indeed an ultra-light boson, our results imply that the DM [dark matter] haloes of galaxies and galaxy clusters may not be fully BEC [Bose-Einstein condensates ] systems. In contrast, agreement with observations at different mass scales is achievable for multistate SFDM configurations >>

Tula Bernal, Victor H. Robles and Tonatiuh Matos. Scalar field dark matter in clusters of galaxies. arXiv:1609.08644v3  [astro-ph.CO]  30 Apr 2017. Preprint 2nd May 2017.

arxiv.org/abs/1609.08644

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.08644

# s-gst: looking like overcooked spaghetti

<< and — voilà! pretty soon your laces are flopping around, looking like overcooked spaghetti >>

<< It’s catastrophic.  Every day >>

Christopher  Mele. Do  Your  Shoelaces  Keep  Coming  Undone? Engineers  Explain  Why.  Apr. 13,  2017.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/13/science/why-shoelaces-undone-untied.html

# n-soc: a fading dream

<< the probability for children to attain a higher income than their parents has dropped dramatically -- from more than 90 percent for children born in 1940 to 50 percent for children born in the 1980s >>

Upward mobility has fallen sharply in US: study. Apr.  24,  2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-04-upward-mobility-fallen-sharply.html

Raj Chetty, David Grusky, et al. The fading American dream: Trends in absolute income mobility since 1940. Science  28 Apr. 2017:
Vol. 356, Issue 6336, pp. 398-406
DOI: 10.1126/science.aal4617.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6336/398.full