# life: the ultimate explanation

<< Is the ultimate explanation for what’s happened to us is that everyone is a moron?  >> 06:01 Aug 18, 2018

https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1030847282269306881

Masha Gessen. How QAnon and Sacha Baron Cohen Speak to the Same Desperate Need. Aug 8, 2018.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-qanon-and-sacha-baron-cohen-speak-to-the-same-desperate-need

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qualcosa di simile a "moron"  pare fosse l'opinione del giovane Mr. Mark  Zuckerberg sui suoi giovani colleghi studenti all'inizio del suo incredibile successo; chissa' se nel frattempo MZ ha cambiato opinione ...

facebook: a synthetic perspective from the deep brain, by Mark. Apr 14, 2018.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2018/04/web-facebook-synthetic-perspective-from.html

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"facebook" in:

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=facebook

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=facebook

# gst: ordered patterns found when mixing granular matter

AA << report remarkably persistent mixing and non-mixing regions in a three-dimensional dynamical system where randomness is expected. A spherical shell half-filled with dry non-cohesive particles and periodically rotated about two horizontal axes generates complex structures that vary non-trivially with the rotation angles. >>

Zafir Zaman, Mengqi Yu, et al.  Persistent structures in a three-dimensional dynamical system with flowing and non-flowing regions. Nature Comm vol 9, no 3122 (2018)  doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05508-7

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05508-7   

Emily Ayshford. When mixing granular matter, order among disorder. Northwestern University. Aug 14, 2018.

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-08-granular-disorder.html   

# gst: the art of designing a self-assembling origami

<< (..) to create smart structures - objects that can collapse, absorb energy, and spring back into place using the geometric principles of origami. >>

<< Smart structures simply change their shape based on a response to a change in the environment. >>

Sophia Fox-Sowell. How origami might reshape the future of everything. Northeastern University. Aug 2, 2018.

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-08-origami-reshape-future.html

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"origami"

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=origami

# gst: apropos interacting cracks

<< When two cracks propagate in a material like concrete or metal, they tend to follow paths that bring them closer to each other. However, some cracks exhibit repulsion for a short distance before reverting to the attractive mode of propagation. >>

Michael Schirber. Synopsis: Why Some Cracks Repel. June 20, 2018.

https://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.255501

Marie-Emeline Schwaab, Thierry Biben, et al. Interacting Cracks Obey a Multiscale Attractive to Repulsive Transition. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 255501. June 20, 2018.

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.255501  

Also: "crack"

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=crack

# acad: the 2nd MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

<< Nominations are now open for the second MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award, which carries a 250,000 USD cash prize, no strings attached. This award will go to a person or group engaged in what we believe is an extraordinary example of disobedience for the benefit of society: work that impacts society in positive ways, and is consistent with a set of key principles, including nonviolence, creativity, courage, and responsibility for one’s actions. >>

https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/disobedience-award/  

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che mat-tachioni questi MITiani ...

# trade: positive effects of bubbles during innovations

AA << study is the first to look at the occurrence of bubbles in association with a large set of specific innovations introduced across two centuries, and to measure bubbles using statistical tests. [AA] are also the first to show that firms can benefit from bubbles driven by innovation. This is in contrast to the conventional thinking that that bubbles are detrimental that have few, if any, positive effects. >>

Ashley Kilgore. Innovation and speculation drive stock market bubble activity, according to new study. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.  Aug 1, 2018.

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-08-speculation-stock.html

<< Using a sample of 51 major innovations introduced between 1825 and 2000, [AA] test for bubbles in the stock prices of parent firms subsequent to the commercialization of these innovations. [AA] identify bubbles in 73% of the cases. >>

Alina Sorescu, Sorin M. Sorescu, et al. Two Centuries of Innovations and Stock Market Bubbles. Marketing Science 37 (4) Jul 16, 2018 doi: 10.1287/mksc.2018.1095

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mksc.2018.1095

# age: cryobiosis; long-term nematodes survival (30-40k y.) from late pleistocenic permafrost (P. aff. detritophagus - Rhabditida - and P. aff. parvus - Plectida).

AA << have obtained the first data demonstrating the capability of multicellular organisms for longterm cryobiosis in permafrost deposits of the Arctic. The viable soil nematodes Panagrolaimus aff. detritophagus (Rhabditida) and Plectus aff. parvus (Plectida) were isolated from the samples of Pleistocene permafrost deposits of the Kolyma River Lowland. The duration of natural cryopreservation of the nematodes corresponds to the age of the deposits, 30 000-40 000 years. >>

Shatilovicha AV, Tchesunov AV, et al.
Viable Nematodes from Late  Pleistocene Permafrost of the Kolyma River Lowland.  Dokl Biol Sci. 2018 May;480(1):100-102. doi: 10.1134/S0012496618030079. Epub 2018 Jul 16.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30009350/  

FonT

questa news la devo a mia moglie Tamara,  anche lei incredibile
nomade di labirinti ...