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Researcher in neuroscience, psychology, pharmacology, and the intersections therein. Dabbler of cybersecurity and data/internet privacy. Document editor extraordinaire.
Joined Apr 2019
Review | Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week.
Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/21/google-chrome-has-become-surveillance-software-its-time-switch/
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11 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out in late June https://t.co/OVaOCXUiZ2 https://t.co/5ZXgmtM5O0
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Another dark day for science.
New restriction on fetal tissue research ‘was the president’s decision’
New restriction on fetal tissue research ‘was the president’s decision’
https://wapo.st/2IrbKHY
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US State Department begins social media screening for nearly all visa applicants
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/01/u-s-state-department-begins-social-media-screening-for-nearly-all-visa-applicants/
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The German Ministry of the Interior wants to force WhattsApp, Threema and Apple to decrypt encrypted messages. But a backdoor for the "good guys" only is impossible. While this draft would not affect #Tutanota, we will fight it. #Fight4Privacy
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/encrypted-message-no-encryption-backdoor/
I cannot say how many time I've had to debunk the myth of multitasking. Here's a good breakdown for all crowds.
https://goodmenproject.com/guy-talk/smart-people-dont-multitask-fiff/
"My hope is that not just scientists, but people with opinions and political stakes in general, can seriously consider the fact that people who don’t share their political viewpoints have something valuable to say—and even if they don’t have something valuable to say about a particular political topic, that their different experience and perspective has likely given them access to other kinds of information that will be valuable and new to you."
http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/wikipedia-and-the-wisdom-of-polarized-crowds
A first in many cases: The allocation of funds to attack the problem of consciousness and the first (to my knowledge) structured adversarial collaboration between scientists proposing opposing theories that are both quantifiable.
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Protecting the right to record police officers is essential to local journalism and civilian oversight of police activity. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/eff-tenth-circuit-first-amendment-protects-right-record-police
Blue Brain solves a century-old neuroscience problem - Neuroscience News
A mathematical algorithm developed by the Blue Brain Project can objectively classify different shapes of neurons in the brain. The algorithm has already helped researchers objectively identify 17 types of pyramidal neurons in the somatosensory cortex of a rat.
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Physically marking a tire without a warrant is a violation of the Fourth Amendment –– the amendment that protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures –– a federal appeals court has ruled.
https://n.pr/2KU4sRv
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A federal judge in a class action suit says UnitedHealth Group wrongly refused to pay mental health treatment costs for tens of thousands of customers in order to protect its bottom line.
Here are some of the patients' stories: (via @MPRnews)
http://bit.ly/2XzaxUV
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The Sunni-Shia divide is a conflict most people have heard about: Two sects of Islam, with Sunni being in the majority and Shia the minority.
But how did it start?
@throughlineNPR went through 1400 years of history to find out:
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Maryland lawmakers recently became the first in the U.S. to approve a statewide ban on Styrofoam food containers — and a local Baltimore celebrity may have had something to do with it. (via @hereandnow)
https://wbur.fm/2Xh3bp1
Remember Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" album? Well now you can listen to it in a painting. The entire album was stored on synthetic DNA and loaded into a can of spray paint.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/technology-47372219/massive-attack-album-stored-in-a-painting-using-dna
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Smartphone Apps Are Filled with Trackers You Know Nothing About
https://onezero.medium.com/the-app-privacy-crisis-apple-and-google-need-to-fix-now-4e3590f2fc52?sk=12d73f8b09e058d3ab8f5a4b02cf8619
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Anger (and other emotions) are contagious. Here's how to stop the spread with non-complementary behavior.
An intriguing premise. The conception and possible shortcomings of "willpower."
Researcher in neuroscience, psychology, pharmacology, and the intersections therein. Dabbler of cybersecurity and data/internet privacy. Document editor extraordinaire.
Joined Apr 2019
