This week, we have articles on how to become comfortable with your own thoughts, new safer cancer treatments and how AI is helping autistic children. On a lighter note, check out the cool official Tokyo Olympics posters, some films to watch in 2020 and the rise of xenobots!
Finally, have a read of my latest personal blog: “What Famous Writers Say About Your Age”
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This week, we have articles on how to become comfortable with your own thoughts, new safer cancer treatments and how AI is helping autistic children. On a lighter note, check out the cool official Tokyo Olympics posters, some films to watch in 2020 and the rise of xenobots!
Finally, have a read of my latest personal blog: “What Famous Writers Say About Your Age”.
Enjoy!
Bilal
Why We Are Hard-Wired To Worry, And What We Can Do To Calm Down (The Conversation, 5 mins) Some people prefer electric shocks to being left alone with their thoughts. – because It’s easy to ruminate over the past or get anxious over the future. Mindfulness and detachment from thoughts is a way to ease anxieties– simply stop and observe your breath for a few minutes while noticing the present world around.
Childhood in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (WebMD, 5 mins) Robots and AI can be used to teach children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) better social and verbal skills, improve gaze behaviour (ability to make eye contact with others) and better predict which young students might struggle with ADHD and other learning disabilities.
What Are The Most Important Lessons For Dominic Cummings?(Marginal Revolution, 10 mins) More than a hundred funny, insightful and critical comments on the recent Dominic Cummings blog post aimed at hiring some ‘misfits and weirdos’ into No. 10.
Study Finds Losing A Night Of Sleep May Increase Blood Levels Of Alzheimer’s Biomarker (Uppsala University, 4 mins)So if you lose sleep in younger days, it increases your odds of Alzheimers
Targeted Ultrasound Destroys Cancer Cells: Study (WebMD, 5 mins)Already used for tumours, but could now work for cancer cells. Safer than other approaches.
The Gym Of The Future Will Be Virtual, Gamified, And Totally Immersive (Fast Company, 8 mins) This decade you can expect gyms to become much more integrated into your daily errands. While there will be higher demand for instructors that truly inspire and entertain, the tech involved might also know precisely the type of muscle massage you need to book after your ‘all-in’ sessions.
These “Xenobots” Are Living Machines Designed By An Evolutionary Algorithm (MIT Technology Review, 1 min) US scientists have managed to transform frog embryos into tiny robots. They can move through water while carrying small loads along with them. They are considered almost alive; preliminary versions are now “live” for 10 days.
Google Says New AI Models Allow For ‘Nearly Instantaneous’ Weather Forecasts (The Verge, 2 mins) Google has developed machine learning solutions that calculate in a matter of minutes what will happen in the next six hours – albeit using less sophisticated methods versus traditional forecasting.
Brazil Is Emerging As A World-Class AI Innovation Hub (VentureBeat, 2 mins) With a tech savvy population and an increasingly strong network of AI labs, South America’s largest economy recently entered the top five countries in the world in terms of AI hiring.
A Japanese Mega-Collector Is Giving Away $9 Million to His Twitter Followers to See If Money Makes People Happy (Artnet, 2 mins) The 44-year-old billionaire hopes that academics, especially economists, will study the outcomes of what he calls “a serious social experiment”.
Artists Unveil Official Posters for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics(Spoon & Tamago, 3 mins) A first look at some of the approved posters for the Olympics and Paralympics for this summer’s games – check them out for some beautiful manga, complex geometric displays and mathematical patterns – they bring some true Japanese spirit.
20 Affordable Trips Around the World to Take in 2020 (Outside, 5 mins) Including Watamu Marine National Park in Kenya, the colourful rural towns of Colombia and even an 11-day Antarctica Explorer trip.
2020 Movies: The 11 Things We’re Most Excited to See (GQ, 3 mins) Includes the new Pixar movie Onward, Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
How 200 Historic Hollywood Backdrops Were Saved From The Dumpster (Los Angeles Times, 6 mins) In the early days, most film scenes were filmed with the help of a backdrop – a large, painted canvas. Now most films use digital images and special effects. However, 200 old backdrops were recently surprisingly discovered.
Ian McKellan’s 1999 Lord of the Rings Blog (Kottke, 1 min) A unique 1999 diary-blog by Ian McKellan on his experience playing Gandalf in Lord of the Rings. It takes the reader on a journey from his early casting days, through filming adventures and his thoughts and worries along the way.
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