Women's March... On the world

https://nyti.ms/2kcyuO7

The Verge: CES 2017: What to expect at the biggest tech trade show of the year

The Verge: CES 2017: What to expect at the biggest tech trade show of the year. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwm664gDM

Koons

A profile of a survivor of the attack at the Bataclan:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/12/surviving-bataclan-you-have-to-live-life-to-the-full-for-all-the-people-who-died

Commemorative sculpture :

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/22/jeff-koons-sculpture-tribute-paris-attacks-bouquet-of-tulips

The American Post Modernist artist Koontz is creating a sculpture to commemorate the terrorist massacre at the Bataclan in France. I was struck be the vapidity of it and to learn more I found the following critique of an earlier work that shed a lot of light on his work. 

"So, when Koons says his work has no meaning, it's because he believes it shouldn't, and that's what makes it good. This kind of hardline Postmodernism has been discredited as overstating the case to the point of stupification and vapidity, partly for the irony of trying to appear more profound by denying profundity exists. I would have understood his art better, and sooner, if I'd had a lobotomy before looking at it. "

From: https://artofericwayne.com/2013/11/21/how-to-understand-jeff-koons-paintings-and-why-they-are-an-attempt-at-original-art-includes-a-top-ten-list-of-his-key-features/

If all that people see is a bunch of cartoon flowers, I'm not sure the message of hope and solidarity is going to come thru. 

Donald Trump’s locker room

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/12/donald_trump_s_locker_room.html

"When the tape came out, Trump dismissed it as "locker-room talk." But what you have to understand about Trump—what you see on that tape, in his meeting with the Times, and in the arena in Cincinnati—is that he's always in the locker room. He's always trying to endear himself to some people by insulting others. If you're in the room, he's your buddy. If you're not, you're just another pussy."

Trump May Have Gotten Carrier To Keep 1,000 Jobs, But Manufacturing Jobs Aren't Coming Back : NPR

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/01/503987418/carrier-will-keep-1-000-jobs-but-trump-faces-a-much-tougher-jobs-problem

""Old-fashioned production and clerical jobs that paid reasonably well to people with only a high school diploma or less, those are disappearing rapidly," said Harry Holzer, professor of public policy at Georgetown University.

In 1973, more than two-thirds of jobs were held by people with a high school diploma or less, according to a 2014 report by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown. By 2020, they project, that will be flipped; just over one-third of jobs will require a high school diploma alone or less; two-thirds will call for some kind of postsecondary education."

New York Daily News: KING: Even Frosted Flakes dumps Breitbart — because they’re hate

New York Daily News: KING: Even Frosted Flakes dumps Breitbart — because they're hate. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwmNys9Sk

"This is completely and utterly despicable. It's dangerous. A man whose work is too hateful to be affiliated with Frosted Flakes or Allstate Insurance or Vanguard Mutual Funds is somehow good enough for the White House.

Every company should absolutely follow the lead of these other companies and remove their advertising dollars from Breitbart, but the deeper point remains – the man who made it into the hateful platform it is, will now be crafting the direction of our country.

It's an embarrassment to our nation, yes, but it is a normalization of bigotry unlike anything I've ever seen in my lifetime."

Universe has 2 trillion galaxies, astronomers say | Science | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/13/hubble-telescope-universe-galaxies-astronomy

Now it REALLY seems unlikely that we're the only lifeforms in the universe. Go back and read all the evidence for Roswell. Roll the dice 2 trillion times. Which could result in a few crazy different lifeforms. Some of them living in concurrent times and able to reach each other...

"To begin with, there is only part of the cosmos where light given off by distant objects has had time to reach Earth. The rest is effectively beyond our reach. And even within this "observable universe", current technology only allows us to glimpse 10% of what is out there, according to the new findings."

Hua Qiang Bei

https://shift.newco.co/what-50-buys-you-at-huaqiangbei-the-worlds-most-fascinating-electronics-market-f0384d9fca32#.zbvuu65g1

Jeff Lynne

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/6753789/interview-jeff-lynne-revives-elo-grammys-ed-sheeran-traveling-wilburys

"What song has made you the most money?

Probably "Mr. Blue Sky." It has been in a lot of films, and they pay fortunes. When I wrote it [in a [in a Swiss chalet] it had been mist and fog, and I was up in the mountains. I couldn't see bugger all for a week and didn't come up with any songs. Then the sun came out, and I wrote "Mr. Blue Sky" as kind of a joke. It turned into a really nice song."

How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/news/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-super-smart-children-1.20537

"Follow-up surveys — at ages 18, 23, 33 and 48 — backed up his hunch. A 2013 analysis5 found a correlation between the number of patents and peer-refereed publications that people had produced and their earlier scores on SATs and spatial-ability tests. The SAT tests jointly accounted for about 11% of the variance; spatial ability accounted for an additional 7.6%.

The findings, which dovetail with those of other recent studies, suggest that spatial ability plays a major part in creativity and technical innovation. "I think it may be the largest known untapped source of human potential," says Lubinski, who adds that students who are only marginally impressive in mathematics or verbal ability but high in spatial ability often make exceptional engineers, architects and surgeons. "And yet, no admissions directors I know of are looking at this, and it's generally overlooked in school-based assessments.""

How Khizr Khan Helped Democrats Take Back Religious Liberty

"the government can neither discriminate against certain religions nor license certain religions to discriminate against others"

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/07/29/khizr_khan_helped_democrats_take_back_religious_liberty.html

Gizmodo: New Simulation Extends Possible Crash Site of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370

Gizmodo: New Simulation Extends Possible Crash Site of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwoIbWzCw

Super Typhoon Nepartak approaches Taiwan, threatening flooding

"Thanks to Nepartak's large size and Taiwan's unique geography, some parts of the island could see as much as 52 inches (1,330 mm) of rainfall over the next day or so."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/07/super_typhoon_nepartak_approaches_taiwan_threatening_flooding.html

NYTimes: A Reading List of Tell-Alls, Strategic Plans and Cautionary Tales in Finance

Here's a story from The New York Times I thought you'd find interesting:

Books to get you caught up on influential deal makers, activist shareholders, the failings of the modern economy and the habits of highly successful people.

Read More: http://nyti.ms/29rBrdi

NYTimes.com: Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence in Muslim Countries

From The New York Times:

In Europe and the West, Islamic State operatives have been instructed to kill at random, but more care is seemingly taken to plan attacks in majority-Muslim nations like Bangladesh.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/world/middleeast/isis-muslim-countries-bangladesh.html

""It's a very stark difference in approach," says Thomas Joscelyn, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who studies jihadist groups. "Al Qaeda wants Muslims to believe that its terrorism is morally justifiable, whereas the Islamic State argues that only its followers have moral legitimacy.""

The Parasite Underground (NYT)

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/magazine/the-parasite-underground.html

"In the early 2000s, some multiple-sclerosis patients at a neurology clinic in Buenos Aires began showing up with parasite infections. Aware of the potential for parasites to help inflammatory disease, the presiding neurologists proposed an experiment: Don't treat the parasites, and see what happens. Twelve patients agreed, and for nearly five years the doctors monitored them. Disease progression, as measured by brain scans, slowed significantly. Blood work showed an elevation of "suppressor" cells that prevent autoimmune diseases. And when, more than five years later, the doctors dewormed four patients who complained of malaise, those suppressor cells disappeared, and the disease started up again."

Exposure to pathogens early in life is beneficial to the education and development of the human immune system

""We believe that E. coli, which lives in the infant gut in all three countries, might be one of the immune educating bacteria responsible for training the immune system early in life. But, we found that if you mix Bacteroides with E. coli it can actually inhibit the immune-activating properties of E. coli, and we suspect this might have consequences on the development of the immune system," Vatanen explains.

"In the Finnish and Estonian infants, where Bacteroides dominates, the gut microbiome is immunologically very silent," Kostic adds, and continues, "We believe that, later on, this makes them more prone to strong inflammatory stimuli."

The researchers suspect that the LPS immune activation by E. coli seen in the Russian Karelian infants is reflective of the relationship humans developed with microbiota over the course of human evolution. The prevalence and dominance of Bacteroides, in contrast, is a more recent phenomenon related in some way to improved sanitation and standard of living."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160429095038.htm

NYTimes: How China Won the Keys to Disney’s Magic Kingdom

"Plans for the $5.5 billion Shanghai Disney Resort, which opens Thursday, were in limbo until Disney dialed back its demands to the Communist Party."

There are 300 million people within a 3 hr train or bus ride of the Shanghai Park, whereas there are "only" 22 million people in Southern California.

Read More: http://nyti.ms/1UrYwf8

Yes, There Have Been Aliens - NYTimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/opinion/sunday/yes-there-have-been-aliens.html

"Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first."

Cell phones still cause teen crashes. Can they prevent them, too? - CSMonitor.com

http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2016/0601/Cell-phones-still-cause-teen-crashes.-Can-they-prevent-them-too

"teen drivers were distracted in the six seconds before an accident in 59 percent of crashes. In 15 percent of those, drivers were distracted by passengers; teens who talked, texted or browsed on their phones made up 12 percent of the crashes."