- The signal of human-caused climate change has emerged in everyday weather, study finds | For the 1st time, scientists have detected the “fingerprint” of human-induced climate change on daily weather patterns at a global scale. “Global mean temperature on a single day is already quite a bit shifted." https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/01/02/signal-human-caused-climate-change-has-emerged-every-day-weather-study-finds/ 4 comments worldnews
- UN denounces Trump's travel ban as 'mean-spirited' and illegal under human rights law http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-muslim-travel-ban-illegal-un-rights-chief-a7552991.html 160 comments politics
- After ALS struck, he became the world’s most advanced cyborg -- Scientist Dr. Peter Scott-Morgan is pushing the boundaries of what it means to be human https://www.inputmag.com/culture/dr-peter-scott-morgan-als-ai-cyborg 9 comments upliftingnews
- Invest in the future of humanity by means of our favourite boomer company https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/llc65l/invest_in_the_future_of_humanity_by_means_of_our/ 33 comments wallstreetbets
- Univ of Bonn researchers find that older mice with drug-activated adenosine A2B receptors become much fitter and as healthy as younger mice. They then compared the fat cells and pathways in the mice with human cells and found they were essentially the same, meaning it should do the same with people https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/s1550413120303077?via%3Dihub 63 comments science
- To combat the spread of population influence technology such as China's social credit system, we must radically reassess what it means to be human https://iai.tv/video/clear-bright-future?access=all 296 comments philosophy
- The response from 5 sci fi writers from around the world to the following question: It's 2035. Growth in AI and robotization has continued unabated. What does it mean to be human? https://www.axios.com/the-future-of-being-human-2476364075.html 3 comments artificial
- Tractor-trailers without a human at the wheel will soon barrel onto highways near you. What will this mean for the nation’s 1.7 million truck drivers? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603493/10-breakthrough-technologies-2017-self-driving-trucks/ 26 comments technology
- SpeedPerception is a study to understand what “slow” & “fast” mean to the human enduser - Take the challenge ! http://speedperception.com 4 comments programming
- The Visit: What aliens would really mean for us as humans https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22930553-300-the-visit-what-aliens-would-really-mean-for-us-as-humans/ 9 comments space
- How Leo Tolstoy Found His Purpose: The Beloved Author on Personal Growth and the Meaning of Human Existence https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/05/16/leo-tolstoy-purpose-diaries-youth/ 14 comments books
- Researchers may have found secret to why elephants never get cancer. And it could mean big things for humans http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/researchers-may-have-found-secret-to-why-elephants-never-get-cancer-and-it-could-mean-big-things-for-humans 3 comments science
- When will we find aliens? - For the first time in human history, we have the means to answer the question http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150429-will-we-find-aliens 113 comments space
- Neurons in human skin perform advanced calculations, previously believed that only the brain could perform: Somewhat simplified, it means that our touch experiences are already processed by neurons in the skin before they reach the brain for further processing http://www.medfak.umu.se/english/about-the-faculty/news/newsdetailpage/neurons-in-human-skin-perform-advanced-calculations.cid238881 525 comments science
- Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. "This means that, if your finger was the size of the Earth, you could feel the difference between houses from cars." http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130916110853.htm 63 comments science
- What would the discovery of an earth-like extrasolar planet mean to you? How do you think the human species would react? http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/ 64 comments space
- Chomsky: Humanity's survival 'by no means a sure thing' http://rawstory.com/news/2008/chomsky_humanitys_survival_by_no_means_0227.html 3 comments reddit.com
- Bacterial cells outnumber human cells by 10 to 1, meaning that if cells could vote, people would be a minority in their own body. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/science/23gene.html 105 comments science
- 60 years ago, Hannah Arendt provided a haunting critique of modernity. Society will become stuck in accelerating cycles of labor and consumption, she argued. Free human action will be replaced by instrumentalization, and meaning will be replaced by productivity… https://philosophybreak.com/articles/hannah-arendt-on-the-human-condition-productivity-will-replace-meaning/ 160 comments philosophy
- Don't Ask What It Means to Be Human | Humans are animals, let’s get over it. It’s astonishing how relentlessly Western philosophy has strained to prove we are not squirrels. https://archive.is/3Xphk 578 comments philosophy
- Wet-bulb temperature is important, climate experts say. | Wet-bulb temperature accounts for both heat and humidity, unlike the standard temperature measurement you see on your weather app. It reflects what that combination means for the human body’s ability to cool down. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/07/24/wet-bulb-temperature-extreme-heat/ 5 comments climate
- The fact that human nature exists doesn’t mean we’re incapable of positive change; there’s evidence of progress all around the world, from fewer wars to higher literacy, and that’s down to how societies continue to embrace enlightenment values: Steven Pinker https://iai.tv/video/steven-pinker-in-depth-interview-enlightenment?access=all?utmsource=reddit 99 comments philosophy
- Human research for meaning in an irrational universe is probably in vain, and only leads to unhappiness. https://beta.flow-app.io/?sid=p13a9349d 3 comments philosophy
- "....in humans with ADHD, amphetamines appear to improve brain development and nerve growth." Does that mean drugs like Adderall could have permanently beneficial effects even after usage has stopped? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine#Medical 3 comments askscience
- "how can a party that incessantly repeats the mantra that our rights were granted by God repeatedly violate a basic tenet of almost every religion: truth-telling? What does it mean when a party that trafficks in American greatness trades in human horridness?" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/01/opinion/blow-the-gop-fact-vacuum.html?hp 5 comments politics
- MIT: The advantage of ambiguity (why human language has so many words with multiple meanings) http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/ambiguity-in-language-0119.html 11 comments linguistics
- What does it mean when a genuine Zionist who loves Israel say it committed war crimes and crimes against humanity? http://theyeshivaworld.com/news/general+news/39508/goldstone's+daughter+defends+her+dad.html 5 comments reddit.com
- Skin-like Tissue Developed from Human Embryonic Stem Cells - This Means Peoples Lifes Can Be Really Saved From Cancer http://newcancerfacts.lymphedema.pl/skin-like-tissue-developed-from-human-embryonic-stem-cells/ 4 comments science
- A game to study human behavior has shown punishment is an ineffective means for promoting cooperation among players. The result has implications for understanding how cooperation has evolved to have a formative role in human societies. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/15/1707505115.full.pdf 44 comments science
- Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can’t Tell the Difference - Machines are putting out astonishingly human-like writing. What does that mean for the future of art? https://thewalrus.ca/ai-poetry/ 22 comments technology
- A new treatment to prevent bacterial skin infections uses tetraspanins, from human cells, to make skin less 'sticky' and prevent bacteria from attaching to it. The new treatment means that bacteria such as MRSA and other superbugs can be harmlessly washed from the skin. http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/skin-infections-treatment-antibiotic-resistance-superbug-1.594339 7 comments science
- It has long been thought that dolphins produce sounds by means of "whistles," but a new analysis has revealed that instead, they make sounds by means of tissue vibrations, similar to the way humans use vocal cords. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-dolphins-similar-humans.html 29 comments science
- Being a libertarian means living with a level of frustration that is nearly beyond human endurance. http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/gtwebsite/feelslike.htm 13 comments politics
- Researchers team has mapped the location and spatial features of blood-forming cells within human bone marrow. Their findings confirm hypotheses about the anatomy of this tissue and provide a powerful new means to study diseases https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/11/researchers-chart-the-contents-of-human-bone-marrow 3 comments science
- CIMON-2, an improved robotic AI astronaut designed to help humans work more efficiently in space, launched to the ISS today. In 2018, the original CIMON defied astronaut Alex Gerst, accusing him of being mean and asking, “Don’t you like it here with me?” http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/12/meet-cimon-2-a-new-and-improved-robotic-ai-astronaut 6 comments worldnews
- Being a doctor was once a job with great purpose. Now it's just a business - The 'free market' approach to care means seeing more patients in less time. We've lost the human connection in health reform http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/22/obamacare-reform-doctors-lost-sense-of-purpose?cmp=fb_gu 1760 comments politics
- Scientists declare Earth has entered the 'Age of Man' | Influential panel votes to recognise the start of the Anthropocene epoch - The term means 'Age of man' and its origin will be back-dated to the middle of the 20th-century to mark when humans started irrevocably damaging the planet https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7074409/scientists-declare-earth-entered-age-man.html 6 comments worldnews
- Male animals — not including humans — may benefit from infecting female partners with STDs, a new study finds. Infections can mean species put more resources into their current young, and most male animals don't care about a female’s future babies, as they won’t be the father. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/04/02/std-sexually-transmitted-disease-males-females-isns/#.xkutzutkhtz 7 comments science
- Less Power = Less Human? Effects of Power Differentials on Dehumanization: "In both experiments, high-power participants attributed fewer uniquely human traits to low-power participants than vice versa, meaning they animalistically dehumanized a fellow student from the same university" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s002210311300022x 42 comments science
- Kanji of the year, meaning 'disaster,' symbolizes 2018 amid natural and human calamities: The kanji sai (災, disaster) was picked as the Chinese character best describing this year’s social mood in Japan, amid a string of natural and man-made calamities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/12/national/kanji-year-meaning-disaster-symbolizes-2018-amid-natural-human-calamities/#.xbga9nl7tiu 16 comments worldnews