We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads, Zeynep Tufekci [TED talk]

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Experiments show that what the algorithm picks to show you can affect your emotions. But that’s not all. It also affects political behavior.

Sperms Destroy Cancer Cells by Chemical Injection

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A study recently published by Haifeng et al. demonstrated the use of sperms guided by a magnetic source (so called spermbots) to deliver chemical injections to cervical cancer cells. A video of this demonstrations (see below) has been published by New Scientist.

via: New Scientist

Cognitive Biases visual

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Nearly Naked Black Hole

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Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the Advanced Visualization Laboratoy at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

Quickly find a LaTeX symbol

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via: TeX @ SO