What would happen if we all had clear information about current and future flood risks to our properties? First Street Foundation wants to answer that question. The Rainfall Map That Can Tell You If Your Home Is Doomed - Bloomberg
A pair of stars doing a cosmic dance are getting ready to explode. The two stars make up a binary called V Sagittae in the constellation Sagitta, and they have brightened 10-fold over the course of the last century. Two stars colliding in 2083 will outshine all the others in the sky ~ inter
In Manhattan, the homeless shelters are full, and the luxury skyscrapers are vacant. Such is the tale of two cities within America’s largest metro. Why Luxury Units in Manhattan Are Vacant - The Atlantic
Until recently, Hoan Ton-That’s greatest hits included an obscure iPhone game and an app that let people put Donald Trump’s distinctive yellow hair on their own photos. Then Mr. The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It - The New York T
Age may just be a number, but when it comes to the age of a home, it can be an indicator of its style, features, condition, or even help tell a story about where its located. Home construction, especially in modern building, comes in waves in areas with new developments spring up as a city grows. The Median Age of Homes in the United States
Phenomenal consciousness is seen as one of the top unsolved problems in science. Nothing we can—or, arguably, even could—observe about the arrangement of atoms constituting the brain allows us to deduce what it feels like to smell an orange, fall in love, or have a belly ache. The Mysterious Disappearance of Consciousness » IAI TV
One of science’s most challenging problems is a question that can be stated easily: Where does consciousness come from? In his new book Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness, philosopher Philip Goff considers a radical perspective: What if consciousness is not something Does Consciousness Pervade the Universe? - Scientific American
With advances in medical science, organ donation has become a reality. For many patients, organ donation might be the only viable treatment option for them. Organ Donation in Singapore (under HOTA, or For Science) | SingaporeLegalAd
When it comes to playing a game of fetch, many dogs are naturals. But now, researchers report that the remarkable ability to interpret human social communicative cues that enables a dog to go for a ball and then bring it back also exists in wolves. Scientists unexpectedly witness wolf puppies play fetch | EurekAlert! Scien
As soon as Friday, the Supreme Court could announce that it will hear Trump v. Pennsylvania and Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Supreme Court: The coming showdown over birth control and religion - Vox
Finland has been at the forefront of flexible work schedules for years, starting with a 1996 law that gives most employees the right to adjust their hours up to three hours earlier or later than what their employer typically requires. Finland's prime minister wants her country on a four-day workweek — Quartz
This article is based on a presentation I gave as part of AdevintaTalks in Barcelona on November 2019. I’m experimenting with this format: I went through the slides typing what I’d speak over them, edited the text, and added some of the most relevant slides inbetween paragraphs. Talk write-up: "How to build a PaaS for 1500 engineers"
Increasingly popular in the last couple of years, I think 2020 is going to be the year of “no code”: the movement that say you can write business logic and even entire applications without having the training of a software developer. The 'No Code' Delusion – Alex Hudson
Here’s one example: On this annotated Bill of Rights, a California textbook explains that rulings on the Second Amendment have allowed for some gun regulations. In the same place, the Texas edition of the textbook contains only a blank white space. Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories. - The New York Times
COLORADO SPRINGS — The sergeant in charge of one of the busiest Army recruiting centers in Colorado, Sergeant First Class Dustin Comes, joined the Army, in part, because his father served. Now two of his four children say they want to serve, too. Who Signs Up to Fight? Makeup of U.S. Recruits Shows Glaring Disparity - Th
This story is part of our continuing coverage of CES 2020, including tech and gadgets from the showroom floor. One quick swipe is all it takes for the Prinker S tattoo printer to ink you up. Prinker's Awesome Tattoo Printer Inks You Instantly, But Not Forever | Digi
Last week, Netflix dropped the trailer for Gwyneth Paltrow’s new show The Goop Lab. It is a six-episode docuseries launching on Jan. 24 that, according to the trailers, focuses on approaches to wellness that are “out there,” “unregulated” and “dangerous” (read: science-free). Gwyneth Paltrow's new Goop Lab is an infomercial for her pseudoscience busi
Seagate is set to increase the amount of storage it offers in a hard drive next year with not one, but two higher capacity drives. As AnandTech reports, Seagate has confirmed it plans to ship an 18TB hard drive in the first half of 2020 followed by a 20TB drive in the second half of the year. Seagate Will Ship 18TB and 20TB Hard Drives in 2020 | News & Opinion | PCMa
The best part of TPDb is movie poster collections! Many of our best contributing poster makers design collections for movie franchises and collections (genre, directors, actors, etc). The Poster Database
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. DUBLIN — When Valera Zaicev began working in Dublin as one of Facebook’s moderators a couple years ago, he knew he’d be looking at some of the most graphic and violent content on the internet. Facebook Is Forcing Its Moderators to Log Every Second of Their Days — Even
An emergency situation that turned out to be mostly a false alarm led a lot of schools in Los Angeles to install air filters, and something strange happened: Test scores went up. By a lot. And the gains were sustained in the subsequent year rather than fading away. Air filters create huge educational gains - Vox
When asked what they believe would be most helpful for a high school graduate to launch a career, Americans overwhelmingly recommend an internship at Google (60%) over a degree from Harvard (40%). Americans Rank A Google Internship Over A Harvard Degree
About 790,000 years ago, a meteor slammed into Earth with such force that the explosion blanketed about 10% of the planet with shiny black lumps of rocky debris. A meteor that crashed to Earth 790,000 years ago left a crater that eluded
Meet the woman from Perth whose super sense of smell could change the way Parkinson's disease is diagnosed. Joy Milne's husband, Les, died in June, aged 65. The woman who can smell Parkinson's disease - BBC News
A group of us in Google’s People Operations (what we call HR) set out to answer this question using data and rigorous analysis: What makes a Google team effective? We shared our research earlier today with the Associated Press, and we’re sharing the findings here, as well. re:Work - The five keys to a successful Google team
Fines arising from Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are getting bigger, more companies are being fined and more Supervisory Authorities in Europe are taking action. Total GDPR fines in 2019 reached a mind-boggling €417.5 million, almost 1,000 times higher than 2018. GDPR Fines and Lessons for Startups | Scaling Startups
Some state regulators are scrutinizing nonprofit Christian cost-sharing ministries that enroll Americans struggling to pay for medical care, but aren’t legally bound to cover their members’ claims. Eight-year-old Blake Collie was at the swimming pool when he got a frightening headache. It Looks Like Health Insurance, but It’s Not. ‘Just Trust God,’ Buyers Are
Australia is caught in a climate spiral. For the past few decades, the arid and affluent country of 25 million has padded out its economy—otherwise dominated by sandy beaches and a bustling service sector—by selling coal to the world. Australia's Fires Won't Stop Burning - The Atlantic
For generations, climate scientists have educated the public that weather is not climate, and climate change has been framed as the change in the distribution of weather that slowly emerges from large variability over decades1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Climate change now detectable from any single day of weather at global scal
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, yielding unprecedented long-term responses and survival. However, a significant proportion of patients remain refractory, which correlates with the absence of immune-infiltrated (“hot”) tumors. Intratumoral injection of the seasonal flu shot converts immunologically co
What is the Content Indexing API? # Using a progressive web app means having access to information people care about—images, videos, articles, and more—regardless of the current state of your network connection. Indexing your offline-capable pages with the Content Indexing API
A decade ago, we typed on computers. Now we talk with them. We used to take taxis. Now an app picks a stranger’s car to ride. The most-influental technologies of the 2010s - The Washington Post
It’s finally the 2020s. After 20 years of not being able to refer to the decade we’re in, we’re all finally free—in the clear for the next 80 years until 2100, at which point I assume AGI will have figured out what to call the two decades between 2100 and 2120. It's 2020 and you're in the future — Wait But Why
A revolt against elites. A revolt against liberal democracy. A revolt against the status quo. The seminal events of the 2010s felt like a collective “no” to the entire system. In 2014, a book called The Revolt of the Public was published without much fanfare. 2010s in review: A decade of revolt - Vox
Some new results from Samuele Marcora's "brain endurance training" protocol, funded by the British Ministry of Defence, have been declassified. Bradley Stulberg has a good article at Outside describing the findings. Brain Training Boosts Endurance | Runner's World
Starting on Jan. 1, anyone can legally remix George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, screen Buster Keaton’s silent films, or publish their own edition of Agatha Christie’s whodunnit The Man in the Brown Suit. List of copyrighted works entering the public domain in 2020 — Quartz