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Like weather predictions of 30% chance of rain at 2 pm, did it actually rain 30% of the time?

That sort of research is done all the time. Usually it's on far more specific parts of weather models than the overall model. Weather models are ridiculously complicated, and scientists spend a lot of time on minor components of them like modeling aerosols better since they form the nuclei of clouds and thus rain, or the vertical humidity profile, or boundary layer dynamics. There are so many minor processes that make up weather that most of the research effort goes into things that 99.9% of the population never will even know even exist. In conjunction, all of these things will be what predict rain or temperature at a certain time.

However, once in awhile someone revisits the models as a whole, and you get something like this: http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~pu/...

For hurricanes in particular: http://science.sciencemag.org/...
(If you want the pop journalism coverage of that article: https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...)

Right away I noticed this report talking about a decline in certain species yet generalized it to a risk for seafood dependent diets so I figured I should look to see which species are winning in the new environment.

According to this Science magazine article, the changing temperatures and increasing acidity of oceans is a boon for Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish.
https://www.sciencemag.org/new...

While I believe wee may see increased prices and decreased consumption of certain species, I am certain other to-be-determined species will thrive in the changed environments as well, and that like Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish, we will find them both delicious and nutritious.

Please do provide an example of a chemical combination that doesn't "work together", thus reducing the number of bits per codon.

Sure, third paragraph.

(troll detected)

Are you admitting to trolling?

It's been tested to work thousands of times better than traditional CPUs at simulated annealing operations; however, research leveraging DWave offerings have been slow to come out. You can reach an article where researchers used DWave technology to conduct their experiments. In addition, there are numerous published papers leveraging DWave tech including application in ML and optimization tasks (traffic).

But, healthy skepticism should setup a box around our confidence in any published research until it's verified--preferably on non-DWave systems, something which is pretty damn difficult today.

Really? People fled TO the Ukraine.

Where did they come from? Elbonia?

Actually, they do. The electron-electron interaction of a Cooper pair has energies on the order of 10E-3 eV. The "high temperature superconductors" assume that somehow you can compensate the random heat movement (kT) and (also random) electric repulsion (order of eVs) by interactions in the crystal lattice.

This is a bit disingenuous. First of all, the critical temperature of a superconductor is proportional to the pairing energy, so trying to find a high-temperature superconductor is synonymous with increasing this energy scale. Having a pairing energy of ~1meV is typical for a good low-temperature superconductor (like Nb), where the pairing is caused by phonons. Compensating the random heat movement (~kT) would happen precisely by increasing the pairing energy proportionally. Note also that we don't really know how most high-temperature superconductors work (cuprates), but some theories actually invoke the electric repulsion you brought up as a possible mechanism for superconductivity.

Since the main question was whether high-temperature superconductors break any known laws of physics, you might also be interested to know that we already have near-room-temperature superconductors. After the discovery of superconductivity at 203K (-70C) in sulfur hydride (SH3) a couple of years ago, the record was recently pushed to 250K (-23C) in lanthanum hydride (LaH10). The caveat is that these materials require millions of atmospheres of pressure to function at these temperatures, so they're not that useful for practical applications. But they do demonstrate that room-temperature superconductivity is not prohibited by any physical laws; for instance, a high-pressure hydride would still be subject to the same thermal (~kT) and electron repulsion (~eV) conditions you referred to, but they still work. Secondly, if one is able to replicate the conditions inside these crystals chemically instead of via external pressure (e.g. via the "pressure" between atomic layers in a crystal), they could in principle be made more useful.

As for the article itself: I agree that it sounds unlikely. I'll believe it when I see a published paper replicating the effect, and eliminating other possible explanations of the observations. There are bogus papers claiming to discover high-temperature superconductivity all the time, such as this obvious fraud that made some headlines last year.

How is that a "crank" thing? Take a large mass, spin it around. There you go.

Sounds like *YOU* are the crank. You think you know, but you don't.

And you don't even stop to think that you might be wrong.

https://www.sciencemag.org/new...

Are you a doctor? You fit the profile.

You will now dig in your heels and resist.

"You're also a moron, sorry."
You're entitled to your deluded opinion.

You wrote "Convincing dumbasses isn't the point of studying something"
I wrote "convincing others" is the point of a study.
You then wrote "They convinced the educated in-field people who were in a position to read it" (which is "convincing others", or are "educated in-field people" not a subset of "others" somehow?).

So lets see, who is in a position to read it?
Anyone with internet access because they published this as an open access paper.
http://advances.sciencemag.org...

And who did they convince? You don't know yet you're suggesting it is "the educated in-field people who were in a position to read it".
I suggest that the paper is much more widely read than that (you know it is - otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion), and I don't know who they convinced or not.

You don't know, nor can you infer my or anyone else's intelligence through the meager, fleeting interactions on /.. Lol. Keep trying though. I'm sure it's an ego boost for you.

That said:
1. I have whatever say left I choose to have. Try and stop me.
and
2. You're homophobic.

Funnily enough I am gay. I'll be here waiting for you with arms wide open my dear homophobic bigot. You obviously need a hug.

"Kill yourself or don't, that's the only actual say you have left."
If you believe this (I don't), then you've greatly decreased your options in replying to me. I.e. you can't say shit without being a hypocrite.

Good luck, I'm waiting for your hypocritical homophobic reply with bated breath.

Here is the full article: STEM faculty who believe ability is fixed have larger racial achievement gaps and inspire less student motivation in their classes

Being a teacher, this kind of thing is important to me. And this article irritates me, because I think they get things exactly backwards. The article specifically examines the performance of two groups of students: white/asian vs. black/latino/native-american. The latter group is implicitly assumed to be disadvantaged by the fact that their average, group intelligence is lower than the first group. The hypothesis being that, if your teacher thinks you're less intelligent, you will do more poorly in class that you should.

Interestingly: the article states that there was no discernable grouping amongst the teachers. Teachers and their beliefs were evenly distributed across all ethnicities, genders, ages, etc.. So this isn't a claim of racism or genderism, but simply a claim that teachers with particular views are poorer teachers. This is measured by the fact that their students received poorer grades.

I think this is the critical flaw in the study: Those grades are assigned by the teachers themselves. There is no objective measure of student capability. Teachers with "tough" courses will, on average, give out lower grades. And lower still to the less capable students.

I teach introductory courses - filter courses - at my university. An essential part of my job is to fail students who are unlikely be unable to complete the course of study. Hence, I give lower grades than instructors in other courses later in the program, after the incapable students have been eliminated. I've been doing this a long time, and I have come to the view that students either have certain aptitudes, or they don't. I submit that I have come to this "fixed mindset" view by observation: teaching thousands of students, failing those who cannot develop the necessary skills, and passing those who can. My role as a teacher is precisely that: to help them develop skills. If they are incapable of doing so despite my best efforts? Then they are in the wrong program of study.

In other words, it's not a "fixed mindset" that causes an instructor to hand out poor grades, but the other way around: someone who teaches teaches tough courses will come to recognize that student aptitudes are largely inherent. There are exceptions: I've seen talented students fail through laziness, and marginal students get through with sheer grit and determination. Those exceptions, by their very rarity, serve to underscore the general pattern.

Finally, one must comment on the student evaluations. Students in courses that handed out better grades were more likely to have liked the course. That's not a surprise, that comes close to a law of nature. However, the study misses a great opportunity here. The authors admit that my theory (about tough courses being the root cause) might be true:

"It is possible that faculty who endorse fixed mindset beliefs create more demanding coursesâ"requiring students to spend more time studying and preparing for their course. If this is true, then differences in studentsâ(TM) performance and psychological experiences might be explained by the demands of these courses (instead of professorsâ(TM) mindset beliefs)."

One of the questions in student evaluations ("how much time did this course require?") would have been a good indication of course difficulty. Unfortunately, the study does not seem to have tested this hypothesis, or at least, the paper makes no mention of it. A cynic might wonder if they did do the analysis, but perhaps it didn't support the desired results. After all: "tough courses lead to lower grades" would hardly be a conclusion worthy of publication.

I wish every weather service published a graph that showed the progress of the correlation between their 1 to 7 day forecasts and what actually happened, somewhat like the graph for hurricane tracks in the referenced article. Published confidence levels would also help to know how locked-in a prediction was.

My experience has been that forecasts a day or two ahead are amazingly accurate, but that you can't rely on forecasts a week out for scheduling an important event.

until you factor in the inevitable greed variable from the Pharmaceutical Cartel.

No surprise here, especially considering that this one is really a study by Cortexyme, Inc that is developing treatments for Alzheimer's and other degenerative disorders.

The list of authors and affiliations should be enough to give anyone pause: of the 13 authors the corresponding one (i.e., the one who got the study published) is Stephen S. Dominy from Cortexyme, Hatice Hasturk is affiliated with The Forsyth Institute "reinventing oral and overall health through pioneering biomedical research and transformational healthcare practices", and most of the others come from departments of oral immunology, dental medicine, periodontology, etc.

This alone should be enough to make anyone very suspicious but, in the event it isn't, the introduction clearly states:

"Infectious agents have been found in the brain and postulated to be involved with AD, but robust evidence of causation has not been established
[...]
P. gingivalis lipopolysaccharide has been detected in human AD brains, promoting the hypothesis that P. gingivalis infection of the brain plays a role in AD pathogenesis.
[...]
We developed and tested potent, selective, brain-penetrant, small-molecule gingipain inhibitors in vivo. Our results indicate that small-molecule inhibition of gingipains has the potential to be disease modifying in AD."

So, according to the author(s) there is "no robust evidence" that P. gingivalis is really the cause of AD, but Cortexyme will be happy to sell you something that may (or may not) work. In other words, the article is just another press release in disguise.

RT.

https://www.sciencemag.org/new...

The article makes a decent case for global warming as the culprit

It really doesn't. What insect that thrives at 27 degrees practically disappears at 29 degrees? Or maybe the recent hurricane had more to do with it?

and yet here you are disputing this guy's research

I'm not disputing his research, I'm disputing his conclusion. Although now that you mention it, his research does raise eyebrows. 98% of the insects are gone? This is a study I would double-check before using it for anything important.

To also quote the person who found and documented the error

However, after correction, the Resplandy et al. results do not suggest a larger increase in ocean heat content than previously thought.

https://judithcurry.com/2018/1...

The original paper is at http://advances.sciencemag.org..., and is Bronze Open Access with the PDF at http://advances.sciencemag.org...

A skim read (because I'm more interested in the mineralogy than the politics that is obsessing most commenters) tells me :

In addition, although the importation of this expensive foreign pigment into medieval Europe is first materially attested in the 10th century (15), its presence in an otherwise unremarkable womenâ(TM)s community in northern Germany powerfully testifies to the expansion of long-distance trading circuits during the 11th-century European commercial revolution. [...]
Female biological sex was confirmed using both osteological and genetic methods (16)[...]
To isolate the blue particles for further study, we first sought to demineralize the surrounding dental calculus using a dilute HCl solution (0.05 M), as is typically performed during microbotanical analysis. However, we found that this procedure led to color instability and loss (fig. S3); by comparing colors of the acid-demineralized calculus to reference pigments, we confirmed that using an acid as a decalcifying agent is detrimental to color stability and particle size in lapis lazuli, azurite, malachite, and vivianite (fig. S4; see the Supplementary Materials). We then tested an alternate approach on a second dental calculus sample from the same individual, decontaminating the calculus surface and then disrupting the calculus structure by sonication in ultrapure water. Calculus fragments and mineral particles released by this procedure were transferred to a microscope slide without mounting media or coverslip and allowed to dry under controlled conditions. Inspection under light microscopy revealed more than 100 particles of deep blue color (Fig. 2), many of which were observed in situ still encased within fragments of dental calculus (Fig. 2B). [...]
(The colour intensity in the supplied figures is remarkable. I've not seen lapis lazuli under a microscope for decades, but vivianite is a little more common, and is just dull in comparison. )
With the exception of lazurite (the dominant blue mineral in lapis lazuli), all blue pigments that were available and used during the medieval period contain metal (copper, cobalt, or iron) as a major element in their composition [...]
The archaeological blue particles lack copper, cobalt, and iron, thereby excluding pigments containing these metals as major elements, but they closely resemble the elemental composition of lazurite, the sulfur-containing tectosilicate that gives lapis lazuli its dark blue color.

The original paper is at http://advances.sciencemag.org..., and is Bronze Open Access with the PDF at http://advances.sciencemag.org...

A skim read (because I'm more interested in the mineralogy than the politics that is obsessing most commenters) tells me :

In addition, although the importation of this expensive foreign pigment into medieval Europe is first materially attested in the 10th century (15), its presence in an otherwise unremarkable womenâ(TM)s community in northern Germany powerfully testifies to the expansion of long-distance trading circuits during the 11th-century European commercial revolution. [...]
Female biological sex was confirmed using both osteological and genetic methods (16)[...]
To isolate the blue particles for further study, we first sought to demineralize the surrounding dental calculus using a dilute HCl solution (0.05 M), as is typically performed during microbotanical analysis. However, we found that this procedure led to color instability and loss (fig. S3); by comparing colors of the acid-demineralized calculus to reference pigments, we confirmed that using an acid as a decalcifying agent is detrimental to color stability and particle size in lapis lazuli, azurite, malachite, and vivianite (fig. S4; see the Supplementary Materials). We then tested an alternate approach on a second dental calculus sample from the same individual, decontaminating the calculus surface and then disrupting the calculus structure by sonication in ultrapure water. Calculus fragments and mineral particles released by this procedure were transferred to a microscope slide without mounting media or coverslip and allowed to dry under controlled conditions. Inspection under light microscopy revealed more than 100 particles of deep blue color (Fig. 2), many of which were observed in situ still encased within fragments of dental calculus (Fig. 2B). [...]
(The colour intensity in the supplied figures is remarkable. I've not seen lapis lazuli under a microscope for decades, but vivianite is a little more common, and is just dull in comparison. )
With the exception of lazurite (the dominant blue mineral in lapis lazuli), all blue pigments that were available and used during the medieval period contain metal (copper, cobalt, or iron) as a major element in their composition [...]
The archaeological blue particles lack copper, cobalt, and iron, thereby excluding pigments containing these metals as major elements, but they closely resemble the elemental composition of lazurite, the sulfur-containing tectosilicate that gives lapis lazuli its dark blue color.

The "case" against him is out of pure vengeance for exposing fallibility.

No matter how many times you repeat that it doesn't make it true. Everything they supposedly "expose" was already well known. For example:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
https://www.nature.com/article...
http://science.sciencemag.org/...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

and so on and so forth.

He demonstated crappy journals exist (well known). He demonstrated that peer review is not robust to fraud (well known). He demonstated that journals accept crappy papers (well known).

What they then did was found that with a lot of work targeting known vulnerabilities, he could get 1/3 of his papers accepted. Fom that he concluded not that there was a problem with the jounals but that the whole field was junk.

Notice how they didn't try to do the same thing in a field they think isn't junk, in other words theyy jumped to conclusions with no control.

This one simple trick a woman discovered in her lab!

Um, no. She's the second author in the paper so it's rather "the woman they interviewed since the the first author was a man." And working on this for several years means it's a group effort, likely also somewhat based on work from previous post-docs of the professor involved (last author typically) that are not listed. Hint: post-doc programs are rather shorter than the stated 5 years - do more than 2 years in one place and you blow your chances to move up.

That's kind of amazing seeing as the cost of Iter alone is 20 billion +
https://www.sciencemag.org/new...

and the NIF was nearly 4 Billion
https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/...

Pretty sure there's been more than 2 projects.

because math allows it. But not everything is real what math allows. Just look at the epic failure of SUSY or read "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" from theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder.

"However, studies have shown that the force driving the accelerating expansion of the universe is relentlessly constant."

And there are several studies which claim that the accelerating expansion of the Universe is an illusion. I think it would be simpler(?) to explain the galactic rotation problem and/or the Bullet Cluster without dark matter with a model. And if that model also says something about the expansion of the Universe which matches the observations that would be an extra. But no model should be built upon solely on the accelerating expansion of the Universe.

"It therefore appears that a simple minus sign may solve one of the longest standing problems in physics."

I have read a study which claimed that the bending of light around a galaxy was consistent with the velocity of the stars around the galaxy. That means space-time is really curved with the right amount since there cannot be any repulsive force which bends light.

A precise extragalactic test of General Relativity
http://science.sciencemag.org/...

Re: "Dark matter is absolutely needed to explain the structure of the universe at the largest scales. Supercomputer simulations of the evolution of the visible universe only produce anything that resembles the large scale structure of the universe when using Lambda-CDM (i.e. cold dark matter) models. Those same models also produces the elements in the abundances we see today."

Notice that you completely ignored the fact that the jets we observe connected to AGN's exhibit this peculiar counter-rotation. These are cylinders of moving charge which contain yet more cylinders of charge moving in the opposite direction. How in the world are you going to explain concentric counter-rotating, counter-flowing electric currents with a gravitationally-driven source?

A 2014 Science article adds additional weight to that claim by noticing that the energy of the AGN jets appears to be around 10x the energy which the accretion disc could provide:

Plotting the luminosity of the accretion disks against the gamma ray power of their jets, the team reports online today in Nature that there is a clear linear relationship between the two. The brighter the disk, the more powerful the jets—cementing the idea that accretion disks and jets are linked. But in terms of total power being beamed out into space, Ghisellini says, most of the jets were producing 10 times that of their accretion disks. “There must be another engine, not just the gravitational energy [of accreting matter falling toward the black hole].”

So, is there a gravitational "black hole" driving each of these electromagnetic jets, or are the jets forming a network which then along certain points along the transmission line spin up galaxies?

That latter possibility is the question you refuse to ask even though the data is suggesting it.

You gotta be careful what type of milkweed you plant. The kind you buy from nurseries isn't native to North America, and its differences may be doing more harm than good.

By pop-sci media you mean multiple computer scientists who questioned DWave's claims of performance You didn't answer the question: How can DWave's be actually 1000+ bit quantum computers if multiple encryption schemes that the world uses would be broken?

https://www.sciencemag.org/new...

It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively.

or FOOF

"Satan's kimchi"

[the]Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don’t think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this – ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves 'em right. Morons"

It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively.

or FOOF

"Satan's kimchi"

[the]Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don’t think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this – ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves 'em right. Morons"

I would like to remind everyone that the Italian legal system is the same one that tried to put geologists in jail for an earthquake, and tried Amanda Knox for murder despite already convicting another person for that crime.
Let me know when another country reaches the same findings, because I don't have confidence in Italian courts.

Exactly.

The Italians are notoriously corrupt and quite frankly, a little stupid, when it comes to their politics and courts.

Not that they have a stranglehold on those problems, especially in these days of Trump; but they seem to have more experience at it...

I would like to remind everyone that the Italian legal system is the same one that tried to put geologists in jail for an earthquake, and tried Amanda Knox for murder despite already convicting another person for that crime.

Let me know when another country reaches the same findings, because I don't have confidence in Italian courts.

Switching to a plant based diet will reduce your carbon footprint by less than one ton/year. Having one fewer child will reduce it by _60_ tons per year.

Source: http://www.sciencemag.org/news...

The CO2 impact of children is the equivalent of burning a 55 gallon drum of oil, per week, per child.

You can be net zero carbon emissions.
You could Googleit but here, I've done the hard work for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://fortune.com/2018/10/08/...
https://croakingcassandra.com/...
http://science.sciencemag.org/...
http://www.onlyzerocarbon.org/...

You'll have to actually read these and you may have to change some habits but I know you can do it if you're at all interested.

This is correct - additionally, food crops grown in increased levels of CO2 have been found to contain less nutrients (rice, for example) which is already having an impact on nutrition in poorer countries.

...not anymore. The problem with QI is that it is based on Unruh radiation. This Unruh radiation is supposed to replace dark matter and responsible for the peculiar velocities of stars in spiral galaxies.

Now, here's a problem:
A precise extragalactic test of General Relativity
http://science.sciencemag.org/...

According to this study the rotational velocities of the stars are consistent with the bending of light around the galaxy. That means space-time is curved with the right amount which causes the velocities of the stars.

So, Unruh radiation cannot be responsible for these velocities since Unruh radiation is light and light cannot "bend" light. Actually, our current understanding is that nothing can "bend" light this way, only space-time curvature. This means there is something there which causes this "extra" space-time curvature (eg. dark matter).

I do not believe dark matter exists, but it won't be QI which solves these kind of problems.

> (We're still trying to figure out how Stradivarius made his violins.)

I'm still trying to figure out why it's taking so long for people to understand that there is nothing particularly special about Strads when they are tested in rigorous, double-blinded tests.

I remember an article in Scientific American when I was a kid (decades ago) that described cement research. The one idea that stuck with me is that cement failure is precipitated by mechanical imperfections -- that much isn't so suprising -- which in cement are air bubbles. Remove the air bubbles and cement becomes as strong as aluminum, albeit considerably heavier. They demonstrated this remarkable property by making car springs out of void-free cement!

Yes, concrete is a fascinating substance. They've figured out what makes Roman opus caementicium concrete so strong http://www.sciencemag.org/news...

The secret was aluminum tobermorite, which is what was formed in situ by seawater dissolving the volcanic ash and forming the tobermorite, was what did the trick. Being a silicate also, these might just be sharing the same mechanism in this modern version of concrete?

Anyhow, a fun bit of research for a Thursday morning.

With renberth's missing heat?

Gee, I could have sworn we already HAD the AI craze back in the late 80s. Or was it early 90s?

It was the 1980s. It had faded long before 1990.

But there was an earlier AI craze in the 1960s, based on perceptrons. That faded by 1970.

The 1980 AI hype cycle was driven by "expert systems" and "Lisp machines".

The latest cycle started in 2006 with the publication of the seminal paper on deep learning, and has so far lasted far longer than any previous AI hype cycle.

You don't understand the science at all. Increases in CO2 alters the chemistry of plant growth...which means that they store a lot less nutrients.

You don't understand the amount that CO2 is actually affecting nutrients in the STUDY (singular, the one that all other scaremongering references).

If you actually look at the study the plants diminish in protein about 10%. That is not a LOT, and is more than made up for literally millions of acres of land that can grow more food.

Not to mention this study ONLY looks at rice, and even then qualifies that there need to be more strains of rice considered to say what even happens to rice!!! They aren't even willing to say that the study properly covers rice and you are extrapolating this result to every plant across the world.... now THAT is ignoring the science, and engaging in truly deep scaremongering.

You an easily tell when someone is trying to scare you - just watch for words like "a lot" or belting you. That along with the lack of links and real data usually means they don't know what the hell they are talking about.

I'm not disputing your main point, but SS numbers are particularly terrible due to the fact that it is relatively easy to guess them. The details are explained here. A method that makes it harder to guess your id number would be at least less bad.

Dimethyl Mercury killed a leading reaserxher when a trivally small amount absorbed through a latex glove and then her hand. Its toxic enough such that 4 lab workers have died handling it. The researcher in the article kept getting higher and higher blood mercury test readings right up to her death half a year later. Thimerisol breaks down primarily into ethyl mercury which almost completely clears your system in 6-9 weeks it drops to half in two and a half weeks. It's toxic yes, that's the idea as it is used as a preservative - but it's not like the methyl group compounds that stay with you far longer and cause problems - that was settled 20 years ago with research.

Is it possible that a lax review policy is also a contributor to the less than rigorous science they publish.

Nuts. Let me try that again: Hughes, T. P. et al. (2018) Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene. Or go here for the PDF: https://repository.kaust.edu.s...

How much is normal? How often would you say this happens?

Severe coral reef bleaching is now ‘five times more frequent’ than 40 years ago, with climate change playing a significant role in the rise.

The longest-lasting recorded global bleaching event began in 2014 and continues to affect coral reefs worldwide. Few areas in the Southern Hemisphere escaped bleaching in the recently ended summer; surveys of the Great Barrier Reef suggest that more than 90 percent of it has been affected by bleaching.

Scientists first recorded a mass coral bleaching, one which affects entire reef systems and not just a few individual corals, in 1979. Sixty recorded events occurred between 1979 and 1990. Global coral bleaching events are mass bleaching across all three tropical ocean basins—the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. The first global event took place from 1997 to 1998, with at least 15 percent of global reefs dying, and the second occurred in 2010. Number three, still happening today, looks on track to be the worst ever, affecting 38 percent of the world’s reefs.

An EU court has already ruled that things made with CRISPR must follow the same guidelines as GMOs. Short form -- No GMOs in EU

Perhaps, since an EU member has money in the game, this will be reviewed

“To classify gene-edited crops as GMOs and equivalent to transgenic crops is completely incorrect by any scientific definition,” said Nick Talbot, a molecular geneticist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. “Precise modern gene-editing technologies allow accurate, predictable changes to be made in a genome.” http://www.sciencemag.org/news...

Translation:

"No, no, no, no. It's not a new number. It's--it's--it's just a changed number. See? It's not different. It's the same, just...changed."

Survey says:

"A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques (i.e., a genetically engineered organism)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The question was not about the precision of the modification. It was about it being modified. You've altered the genetic material, it means you've modified it! Hand back your degree.

The original paper in Science: http://science.sciencemag.org/...
Space.com: https://www.space.com/41272-ma...
Science News: https://www.sciencenews.org/ar...
CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25...

... at this guy's blog as a training data set. And then watch it reply to a query.

Be careful what you feed it.

Spare me your bullshit. The "peaceful" natives of the Americas were constructing literal towers of skulls, adults and infants alike. The Aztec Empire had been farming its neighbors for a century, by pushing them onto marginal land, then challenging the survivors to combat. The slaves they collected from these flower wars fed their cannibalistic cult of genocide.

There is no way to negotiate with a society like that. For the sake of humanity, it must be shattered and blown to the wind. Had they not wallowed in their technological slump, they would have brought forth a reign of terror that would have make Genghis Khan look like a hippie. Thank God that Cortez was able to destroy the Aztec Empire.

This article says that China has sent entangled particles from ground to a satellite: http://www.sciencemag.org/news...

How about 3d-printed steel instead?

Strength problem solved.