Topic: SCIENCE - on August 7, 2016 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
New particle hopes fade as LHC data 'bump' disappears
Hopes for the imminent discovery of a particle that might fundamentally change our understanding of the Universe have been put on hold. Results from the Large Hadron Collider show that a "bump" in the machine's data, previously rumoured to represent a new particle, has gone away. The discovery of new particles, which could trigger a paradigm shift in physics, may still be years away. All the latest LHC results are being discussed at a conference in Chicago. David Charlton of Birmingham University, leader of the Atlas experiment at the LHC, told BBC News that everyone working on the project was disappointed. "There was a lot of excitement when we started to collect data. But in the [latest results] we see no sign of a bump, there's nothing. "It is a pity because it would have been a really fantastic thing if there had been a new particle."
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 7, 2016 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
Celebrating 'Revolver': Beatles' First On-Purpose Masterpiece
1966: the most manic of the Beatlemania years. The lads get chased around the world, playing 25-minute sets that have nothing to do with the increasingly complex music they're exploring in the studio. A long-forgotten John quote about religion – "We're more popular than Jesus now" – gets dug up and creates a scandal in America. A Ku Klux Klan protest outside their Memphis show draws 8,000 people. The butcher cover gets censored. The drugs get heavier – Paul dabbles in cocaine, John dabbles in acid. George gets serious about Indian music and religion. Ringo starts a construction company called Bricky Builders. And in their spare time, the Beatles make the greatest rock album ever, Revolver, released on August 5th, 1966 – an album so far ahead of its time, the world is still catching up with it 50 years later. This is where the Beatles jumped into a whole new future – where they truly became the tomorrow that never knows.
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Topic: WEB - on August 7, 2016 at 5:05:00 PM CEST
Vor 25 Jahren: Das WWW taucht im Usenet auf
Das Internet feiert wieder einmal einen seiner vielen Geburtstage: Auf den Tag genau vor 25 Jahren stellte Tim Berners-Lee das Projekt WorldWideWeb in der Usenet-Gruppe alt.hypertext vor. Genau vor 25 Jahren antwortete der am Genfer CERN beschäftigte Informatiker und Physiker Tim Berners-Lee auf die in alt.hypertext gestellte Frage zum Entwicklungsstand bei Hypertext-Systemen mit einer kurzen Beschreibung des Projekts WorldWideWeb. Wenige Stunden später schickte er eine "Executive Summary" des Projektes an die Usenet-Gruppe, die mit info.cern.ch den Verweis auf die Ur-Website enthält, die am 13. November 1990 installiert worden war.
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Topic: POLITIK - on August 5, 2016 at 5:21:00 PM CEST
Law, Order and the Wall: Would Trump and Pence Fuel the Drug War?
Writing about what drug policy might look like under a Trump administration is not easy. Donald Trump's views on drugs have changed radically over the years, and the Republican nominee's rambling statements on the subject suggest that they are shaped by gut reactions and political opportunism, not ideology or a deep understanding of social currents and medical science. Trump's vice-presidential pick, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has a clearer track record on drug policy because he has actually held political office, but some of his positions are so archaic that the Trump campaign may wish to keep them off the national stage.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on August 5, 2016 at 5:18:00 PM CEST
Teil für den Garten
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 5, 2016 at 5:15:00 PM CEST
Watch charming grannies smoke weed for first time in Amsterdam
In a new British TV show called A Granny's Guide to the Modern World (Channel 4), three adorable ladies ages 73, 78 and 82 try weed for the first time when they visit a coffee shop in Amsterdam. One of the weed-tenders helps them out, showing them how to use a bong, roll a joint (a job that is given to the nimble-fingered granny who is an expert embroiderer), and introduces them to one of Amsterdam's famous "space cakes."
boingboing.net Achtung Canvas-Fingerprinting
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 5, 2016 at 5:13:00 PM CEST
Why Florida's Medical Marijuana System Is Ripe for Corporate Takeover
In June 2014, the disgraced former CEO of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) signed Florida’s medical marijuana bill into law. It was a fitting beginning to a regulatory process that has been marred by shadowy fraud in the selection of lucrative vertically integrated licenses in what could become one of the largest medical marijuana markets in the country. The state appears poised to double down upon the fraud, and in keeping with Governor Rick Scott’s legacy of putting healthcare profits before people, some of the new law’s provisions could shield corporate revenues at the expense of fragile patients. This is the picture painted by Freedom of Information Act requests, Sunshine Law requests and public reports pointing to perjury and fraud on the part of Alpha Foliage and its partner Surterra Therapeutics, one of only five nurseries granted oligopolic power over Florida’s entire medical cannabis market. The corruption may lead all the way to the governor’s office and it seems some of Florida’s powerful agricultural companies have wielded their influence over existing medical marijuana laws to add dangerous provisions in their financial favor.
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Topic: WEB - on August 5, 2016 at 5:10:00 PM CEST
Turkey and his recent coup. A short insight into 10GB of Twitter data: origin, fav. words, time series analysis.
The coup/attempt in Turkey kept me up from going to sleep after the two nice hours of “Back to the Future” on German television. So despite of the tragedy behind it: twitter was exploding as I watched the news coming in. I was interested in the timeline of tweets, locations and “everything”. I downloaded about 10Gb of twitter data and here is my analysis for everything ‘#turkey’ from Friday till Monday. When I first thought about it and trying to get tweets from the Twitter API I reached any limits quite soon. So how was it possible to get over 10GB of twitter data in just 8hrs?
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Topic: Space - on August 5, 2016 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
Get Ready For A Truly Spectacular Meteor Shower
If you’ve been waiting for a perfect summer evening to watch a meteor shower, then good news. Overnight from August 11 to 12 (that’s Sunday night to Monday morning this upcoming week), one of this year’s most visually impressive meteor showers, the Perseid meteors, will light up the night sky. And this year in particular, scientists say the Perseid peak could display an “outburst” of up to 200 meteors per hour shouting across the U.S. sky.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 5, 2016 at 5:07:00 PM CEST
Electron microscope slow-motion video of vinyl LP
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on August 4, 2016 at 5:44:00 PM CEST
Video explains Kubrick's use of innovative camera tech when shooting Barry Lyndon
Legendary director Stanley Kubrick was known to be obsessed with cameras and pushing the limits of cinematic technology, with much of his technical awareness stemming from his days as a stills photographer. A new video essay by the British Film Institute now explains his use of different lenses to create the movie Barry Lyndon, which won an Oscar for its cinematography.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on August 4, 2016 at 5:42:00 PM CEST
The 28-Year-Old Activist Who Took on Facebook. And Won
A new U.S.-European Union data-privacy accord that took hold this week could have been a reason to celebrate for Max Schrems, the 28-year-old whose successful landmark lawsuit against Facebook last year led to the new rules affecting more than 4,000 companies. Instead, he's saying the new rules should be thrown out as well. Schrems says the new framework is muddled, allowing mass amounts of data collected by American technology companies to continue making its way to U.S. national security agencies. He expects the new policy to be struck down again by courts, leaving global companies further in limbo. “Privacy Shield is the product of pressure by the U.S. and the IT industry – not of rational or reasonable considerations," Schrems said in a statement after the rules, which began Aug. 1, were passed by European lawmakers last month. "It is very likely to fail again."
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