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2012-12-07
How the Sun Changes History
2012-12-06
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People who don’t know their history are fated to repeat their mistakes. It has always been assumed by solar scientists that our sun does not emit the same sort of superflares seen bursting out of similar stars. But now it appears that the sun did emit a superflare in 774 AD, and, as Whitley Strieber points out in his new e-book, Solar Flares, it may have emitted an even LARGER one 14,000 years ago.
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Can We Ever Create Artificial Intelligence?
2012-12-06
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It will take more than computer science and neuroscience to develop machines that think like people.
In the October 3rd edition of the Guardian, David Deutsch writes: "The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
"The field of "artificial general intelligence" or AGI–has made no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence. Despite this long record of failure, AGI must be possible."
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Sandy Wasn’t the End–More Hurricanes and Tornadoes
2012-12-06
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After Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast of the US recently, everyone wondered what climate change would bring us next. The future has arrived: A typhoon swept through the Philippines killing 400 people (and 400 more are missing and may be dead).
Also, three people are dead, seven are in the hospital and hundreds have been left homeless after a tornado ripped through parts of Auckland, New Zealand.
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