Новости за 03.02.2019

Gabriel Lynch, Nautilus
The way up and the way down are one and the same, says the Sage.Paradox has a way of plaguing thought. It illuminates the inconsistencies and inadequacies of the concepts with which we make sense out of our experience. It casts into doubt our framework of understanding as much as the understanding itself. Whatever tower of thought may be built in an attempt to see past its contradictions teeters and, with slight perturbation, collapses.

Jacob Appel, Undark
One of the most upsetting illnesses any psychiatrist encounters is Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome (WKS). Caused by a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1), it results in devastating impairment of muscle control and memory. Able-bodied men and women develop a severe and irreversible amnesia that wipes clean their pasts and prevents them from forming new memories.

David Bressan, Forbes
In late January of 1959 a group of nine students of the Ural Polytechnical Institute and an older ski instructor departed from the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) on an expedition to Otorten Mountain in the northern Urals. Lead by Igor Dyatlov, an experienced mountaineer, the group proceeded as planned.

Jessica Leigh Hester, Atlas Obscura
The Moon is not an easy place to be a living thing. The little cotton seeds that germinated on the far side of the Moon recently, aboard China's Chang'e-4 lander, died soon after. The water, oxygen, soil, and heat source inside their cozy biosphere were no match for the Moon's version of nighttwo weeks of darkness and temperatures reportedly dipping down to -310 degrees Fahrenheit.

Emma Bryce, Anthropocene
We currently farm 550 aquatic species for food around the world, and octopus is about to become the newest addition to that list. But a concerned team of international researchers write that farming these cephalopods at industrial scales will dramatically intensify the environmental impact of aquacultureand put us in ethical hot water, too.

Jokic's 25th career triple-double helps Nuggets hang on to beat Towns, Timberwolves 107-106

Johanna Miller, Physics Today
At my family Christmas gathering, I was sitting at the dinner table across from my uncle, a retired geologist, when the conversation turned to my job. He knows basically what I do; I've been at Physics Today for 12 years now, and we'd talked about it before. On this occasion, he was wondering about the specifics of where we get our feature articles. Do people just submit them for publication? he asked.

Henry Miller, Pundicity
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has created what may be the most bewildering, least cost-effective regulation ever.In July 2016, Congress passed a law mandating that all food containing genetic material that has been modified with recombinant DNA or "gene-splicing" techniques bear labels clearly identifying it as "bioengineered."

TEHRAN, Feb. 03 (MNA) – The spokesman for the Iranian Parliament's Energy Commission said the development of Iran's oil industry could not be stopped.

Hundreds of summer job vacancies waiting to be filled in Vantaa News Now Finland Jobs are usually available for between one and three months.

Ed Yong, The Atlantic
In the fall of 2010, Rowan Barrett was stuck. He needed a piece of land, one with plenty of mice, and after days of futile searching, he found himself at a motel bar in Valentine, Nebraska, doing what people do at bars: telling a total stranger about his problems.

Ryan Mandelbaum, Gizmodo
Scientists have characterized the quantum behavior of buckminsterfullerene molecules, also known as buckyballs, with the hope of perhaps one day turning them into miniature quantum computers.Buckyballs are the Nobel Prize-winning molecules that consist of sixty carbon atoms arranged in a closed, soccer ball-shape.

Vanderbilt coach Bryce Drew talks about his team’s loss to Missouri. … Click to Continue »

Like any new mum, Ami Summers longed to tell the world about her beautiful daughter Arla.

Melvin Konner, The Atlantic
When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With typical graduate-student arrogance, I pronounced it too many ideas chasing too little data.

Erik Gustafsson scored his second goal of the game 1:19 into overtime to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Wild

Roni Dengler, Discover
Massive volumes of water circulate throughout the Atlantic Ocean and serve as the central drivers of Earth's climate. Now researchers have discovered that the heart of this circulation is not where they suspected.

Eric Berger, Ars Technica
On Thursday night, SpaceX founder Elon Musk shared photos of Raptor rocket engines that recently left the company's factory in Hawthorne, Calif., headed out to be tested at its facility near McGregor, Texas. "Preparing to fire the Starship Raptor engine," he said by way of a caption on Twitter.

Tottenham have the belief in themselves to be Premier League champions, insisted manager Mauricio Pochettino after his side beat Newcastle.

France to Take Back ISIS Fighters, Reversing Policy in Wake of U.S. Withdrawal from Syria

France to Take Back ISIS Fighters, Reversing Policy in Wake of U.S. Withdrawal from Syria by James McAuley and Michael Birnbaum – Washington Post

The version with comments. A teacher at South Division High School punched by a student. The video shows a student punching a teacher several times in the head. That student, not just in trouble with the school...but also with police. A confrontation between a student and a teacher--escalates to violence. The circumstances around the fight aren't known. Police say the student was arrested at the school and faces possible charges of battery. A Milwaukee Public School spokesman says the district is cooperating with the investigation.

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga actor Anil Kapoor walked the ramp with Janhvi Kapoor at the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai. Actor Ranveer Singh cheered them from among the audience before joining the duo for some fun.

LOS ANGELES, USA – Milwaukee's Most Valuable Player candidate Giannis Antetokounmpo made all 17 of his free throws on the way to 37 points in the Bucks' 131-115 victory over the Washington Wizards in the NBA on Saturday, February 2 (Sunday, February 3, Manila time).

Nach der Einfuhr von mutmaßlich mangelhaftem Rindfleisch aus Polen haben die französischen Behörden nach eigenen Angaben die gesamte Lieferung zurückverfolgen können. "Die verbliebenen 145 Kilogramm wurden identifiziert in Fleisch, das von Großhändlern, Fleischereien oder Restaurants vermarktet wurde", teilte das Landwirtschaftsministerium in Paris am Samstag mit.

New caf near UC to offer volunteer, employment opportunities The News Record The soon-to-open Peace Caf near the University of Cincinnati's uptown campus aims to combine affordable, nutritious fo