Friday, May 31, 2013

Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space

ALIENS DID NOT BUILD THE FUCKING PYRAMIDS.

Technically, the Hebrew slaves built the pyramids. And as the Hebrews came from a far-away land, led there to escape famine by Joseph, who made them promise to take his bones with them when they returned to Canaan... you could say that the Hebrews were aliens in Egypt. As for the fucking part, there must have been quite a lot of that going on as well, because they went from being 12 brothers and their families to the 600,000 men, besides women and children, who left Egypt in the exodus. Therefore:

Aliens Did Build the Pyramids
Some Fucking Required to Generate Sufficient Numbers to Accomplish the Task

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How a Supercomputer May Have Finally Unlocked a Way to Beat HIV

How a Supercomputer May Have Finally Unlocked a Way to Beat HIV

There's no easy answer for HIV; the sly virus uses our own immune cells to its advantage and mutates readily to shrug off round after round of anti-retrovirals. But thanks to the efforts researchers from the University of Illinois and some heavy-duty number crunching from one of the world's fastest petaflop supercomputers, we may be able to stop HIV right in its tracks.

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Apple vs. Android: The marketshare mentality, and why it's a mistake

Apple vs. Android marketshare, and

Last week Techpinions.com posted a really good editorial by John Kirk discussing how much of a joke it is to consider Android the winner in the smartphone space simply because they have the most market share. The very next day, Business Insider tech editor Jay Yarow pubished a post with a headline that read, ?Apple Should Be Furious That It Has Such A Tiny Sliver Of The Smartphone Market.? Here's John Gruber?s response at Daring Fireball. And here's my take...

John Kirk opens with a well known joke about two farmers buying watermelons. They pay $5 per watermelon and sell them for $4 each, obviously losing money. At the end of the day they realize they?ve lost money so their conclusion is they need to buy a bigger truck; they need to conduct more watermelon-selling business.

Kirk doesn?t agree with the common, deeply flawed, logic that Android is winning because it has more market share than Apple, or that market share alone is the key to success. I agree with him 100% on this. In theory anyone can dominate any industry simply by giving away product for free. But what really maters is a company?s success in turning market share into profit.

Most tech writers don?t seem to be able to learn from the past.

Most tech writers don?t seem to be able to learn from the past. People will make dumb comments about how Apple must be pissed off with its market share without noticing that the PC vs. Mac game has played out in the same manner already. History repeats itself and people don?t notice. Fortunately Horace Dediu over at Asymco noticed.

The graphic below is the result of Dediu?s own analysis of Q4 2012 profit share in the PC market. Apple commands an estimated 45% of the PC market?s profits. What is not shown? Apple has only 8% market share.

Why aren?t people writing about how mad Apple must be with its Mac market share? Why are we not seeing headlines about the failure of the Mac product line? Because this is old news. The PC market is an old game and the mobile industry is a new game. It?s analogous to watching live sports versus watching a recording of last year?s game.

I only wish John Kirk had spent more time talking about actual vendors rather than Android versus Apple. He points out that Android has 70% global market share and 29% profit share, whereas Apple has 18% market share and 57% profit share. Sure, this is correct. But I don?t see it as relevant. Android is an OS and Apple is a vendor. Android feeds Google?s advertising machine (and other developing business models). Apple is a fully integrated platform vendor.

In my opinion, Google has done an amazing job of succeeding with Android. The joke about selling watermelons at a loss does not apply here. Android is software that has no cost to distribute. It has a development cost and it brings in revenue through all the users who connect to Google services.

Google makes a ton of cash from iOS users, who overwhelmingly enjoy Google?s services on their iPads and iPhones.

Is Google winning? It depends on how you define the fight. Google is not competing head on with Apple. Google makes a ton of cash from iOS users, who overwhelmingly enjoy Google?s services on their iPads and iPhones.

Apple competes head on with other device manufacturers including Samsung. And there is no debate that Samsung, having leveraged Android, is raking in the cash. Samsung has 33% market share and 43% profit share according to Cannacord Genuity. It doesn?t take a rocket scientist to realize that pretty much all the other Android vendors aren?t making money.

This takes us to back to Business Insider. They suggest that bloggers writing about Apple?s dominance in profit share are simply defensive. They agree with the math but seems to think Apple should have the most market share and the most profit. Why? Because Tim Cook said Apple?s mission is to make the best products in the world and BI tacks on the idea that Apple should also ?get them in as many hands as possible?.

BI?s entire argument centers on the idea that Apple should want it?s great products to land in ?as many hands as possible?, and the only way to do this is by going after market share (not profit share).

Most people probably all agree Apple should get its products into as many people?s hands as possible, but we may not all agree on what that actually means.

I don?t think getting your product in as many hands as possible means you drop your prices through the floor in order to sell more stuff. Apple is still a business that is owned by shareholders, of which I?m one. Getting your products into as many hands as possible while maintaining the Apple premium should be the goal. Otherwise Apple should be spending its billions to give away iPhones, which would be stupid.

Bottom line: I think John Kirk and John Gruber have it right. Taken to the extreme, the idea that Apple should use its cash to give away phones to the planet in order to achieve 100% market share and win the game is ludicrous. Market share does not define winning. All we need to do is look back at the history of Apple?s domination of PC profitability to see how this really works.

    


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Landsat 8 satellite begins watch

Landsat 8 satellite begins watch [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-May-2013
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NASA transferred operational control Thursday of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D.

The event marks the beginning of the satellite's mission to extend an unparalleled four-decade record of monitoring Earth's landscape from space. Landsat 8 is the latest in the Landsat series of remote-sensing satellites, which have been providing global coverage of landscape changes on Earth since 1972. The Landsat program is a joint effort between NASA and USGS.

NASA launched the satellite Feb. 11 as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). Since then, NASA mission engineers and scientists, with USGS collaboration, have been putting the satellite through its paces -- steering it into its orbit, calibrating the detectors, and collecting test images. Now fully mission-certified, the satellite is under USGS operational control.

"Landsat is a centerpiece of NASA's Earth Science program," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in Washington. "Landsat 8 carries on a long tradition of Landsat satellites that for more than 40 years have helped us learn how Earth works, to understand how humans are affecting it and to make wiser decisions as stewards of this planet."

Beginning Thursday, USGS specialists will collect at least 400 Landsat 8 scenes every day from around the world to be processed and archived at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center in Sioux Falls. The newest satellite joins Landsat 7, which launched in 1999 and continues to collect images. Since 2008, USGS has provided more than 11 million current and historical Landsat images free of charge to users over the Internet.

"We are very pleased to work with NASA for the good of science and the American people," said U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in Washington. "The Landsat program allows us all to have a common, easily accessible view of our planet. This is the starting point for a shared understanding of the environmental challenges we face."

Remote-sensing satellites such as the Landsat series help scientists observe the world beyond the power of human sight, monitor changes to the land that may have natural or human causes, and detect critical trends in the conditions of natural resources.

The 41-year Landsat record provides global coverage at a scale that impartially documents natural processes such as volcanic eruptions, glacial retreat and forest fires and shows large-scale human activities such as expanding cities, crop irrigation and forest clear-cuts. The Landsat Program is a sustained effort by the United States to provide direct societal benefits across a wide range of human endeavors including human and environmental health, energy and water management, urban planning, disaster recovery, and agriculture.

With Landsat 8 circling Earth 14 times a day, and in combination with Landsat 7, researchers will be able to use an improved frequency of data from both satellites. The two observation instruments aboard Landsat 8 feature improvements over their earlier counterparts while collecting information that is compatible with 41 years of land images from previous Landsat satellites.

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301-286-1742
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA transferred operational control Thursday of the Landsat 8 satellite to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a ceremony in Sioux Falls, S.D.

The event marks the beginning of the satellite's mission to extend an unparalleled four-decade record of monitoring Earth's landscape from space. Landsat 8 is the latest in the Landsat series of remote-sensing satellites, which have been providing global coverage of landscape changes on Earth since 1972. The Landsat program is a joint effort between NASA and USGS.

NASA launched the satellite Feb. 11 as the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM). Since then, NASA mission engineers and scientists, with USGS collaboration, have been putting the satellite through its paces -- steering it into its orbit, calibrating the detectors, and collecting test images. Now fully mission-certified, the satellite is under USGS operational control.

"Landsat is a centerpiece of NASA's Earth Science program," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in Washington. "Landsat 8 carries on a long tradition of Landsat satellites that for more than 40 years have helped us learn how Earth works, to understand how humans are affecting it and to make wiser decisions as stewards of this planet."

Beginning Thursday, USGS specialists will collect at least 400 Landsat 8 scenes every day from around the world to be processed and archived at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center in Sioux Falls. The newest satellite joins Landsat 7, which launched in 1999 and continues to collect images. Since 2008, USGS has provided more than 11 million current and historical Landsat images free of charge to users over the Internet.

"We are very pleased to work with NASA for the good of science and the American people," said U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in Washington. "The Landsat program allows us all to have a common, easily accessible view of our planet. This is the starting point for a shared understanding of the environmental challenges we face."

Remote-sensing satellites such as the Landsat series help scientists observe the world beyond the power of human sight, monitor changes to the land that may have natural or human causes, and detect critical trends in the conditions of natural resources.

The 41-year Landsat record provides global coverage at a scale that impartially documents natural processes such as volcanic eruptions, glacial retreat and forest fires and shows large-scale human activities such as expanding cities, crop irrigation and forest clear-cuts. The Landsat Program is a sustained effort by the United States to provide direct societal benefits across a wide range of human endeavors including human and environmental health, energy and water management, urban planning, disaster recovery, and agriculture.

With Landsat 8 circling Earth 14 times a day, and in combination with Landsat 7, researchers will be able to use an improved frequency of data from both satellites. The two observation instruments aboard Landsat 8 feature improvements over their earlier counterparts while collecting information that is compatible with 41 years of land images from previous Landsat satellites.

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http://www.nasa.gov/landsat


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Kon-Tiki Directors Look Likely for Pirates 5

Joachim Rønning and Espen S Kon Tiki Directors Likely to Helm Pirates of the Caribbean 5

After learning that Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides director?Rob Marshall?s stint with the Pirates franchise would end after just one film, Disney went searching high and low for the franchise?s successor.

Last month, that search turned a wishlist into a shortlist, and as of Wednesday, the studio has finally decided who it wants to captain?Pirates of the Caribbean?5.

Deadline is reporting that Disney has selected the Norwegian directing team of?Joachim R?nning and Espen Sandberg from a shortlist that also included Fredrik Bond (The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman)?and Rupert Sanders (Snow White and the Huntsman). ?Though a deal has not been finalized, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and Captain Jack Sparrow himself, Johnny Depp, have approved the directing choice.

The duo may not be well known to U.S. audiences, but the fact that they already have one Oscar nomination under their belts ? for their 2012 historical drama Kon-Tiki ? shows they may be able to steer the Pirates ship in the right direction. Disney also probably liked that the directors have already displayed a knack for shooting on the high seas, as Kon-Tiki chronicled?Thor Heyerdal?s 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947.

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Of course, that film was made for almost nothing. This time around ? and for the first time in their careers ? R?nning and Sandberg will have a major blockbuster budget at their disposal. And since Pirates 5 is expected to be a standalone film, they won?t be restricted by previous entries and will (hopefully) be able to use their creative vision to explore new worlds with the franchise.

In terms of Pirates 5 becoming a box office hit, ultimately, it may not matter who is at the helm. Marshall?s film, On Stranger Tides, was considered by most to be the weakest entry in the series, and yet it brought in $1 billion worth of business worldwide. Though it?s unclear how many of those same folks would turn out for the fifth installment, it?s likely that a good chunk will be happy to see Captain Jack swashbuckling and drinking rum on the big screen again.

With a script in the works, Depp back on board and a directing team secured, it looks like Pirates of the Caribbean 5 is finally ready to set sail. Once?R?nning and Sandberg finalize their deal, they will begin prepping the film, which expects to begin production either later this year or early next year.

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Look for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 when it hits theaters on July 10th, 2015.

Source: Deadline?

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AP Exclusive: Soldier to admit Afghan massacre

(AP) ? The Army staff sergeant charged with slaughtering 16 villagers during one of the worst atrocities of the Afghanistan war has agreed to plead guilty in a deal to avoid the death penalty, his attorney told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales is scheduled to enter guilty pleas to charges of premeditated murder June 5 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle, said lawyer John Henry Browne. A sentencing-phase trial set for September will determine whether he is sentenced to life in prison with or life without the possibility of parole. The judge and commanding general must approve a plea deal.

Browne previously indicated Bales remembered little from the night of the massacre, but he said the soldier will give a full account of what happened before the judge decides whether to accept the plea.

Bales, an Ohio native and father of two from Lake Tapps, Wash., slipped away from his remote southern Afghanistan outpost at Camp Belambay early on March 11, 2012, and attacked mud-walled compounds in two slumbering villages nearby.

Most of the victims were women and children, and some of the bodies were piled and burned. The slayings drew such angry protests that the U.S. temporarily halted combat operations in Afghanistan. It was three weeks before American investigators could reach the crime scenes.

Bales was serving his fourth tour in a combat zone, and the allegations against him raised questions about the toll multiple deployments were taking on American troops. For that reason, many legal experts believed it that it was unlikely that he would receive the death penalty, as Army prosecutors were seeking. The military justice system hasn't executed anyone since 1961.

Nevertheless, the plea deal could inflame tensions in Afghanistan. In interviews with the AP in Kandahar in April, relatives of the victims became outraged at the notion Bales might escape the death penalty and even vowed revenge.

"For this one thing, we would kill 100 American soldiers," said Mohammed Wazir, who had 11 family members killed that night, including his mother and 2-year-old daughter.

"A prison sentence doesn't mean anything," said Said Jan, whose wife and three other relatives died. "I know we have no power now. But I will become stronger, and if he does not hang, I will have my revenge."

Three of Jan's other family members were wounded, including his 7-year-old granddaughter, who was shot in the head.

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Johnson can be reached at https://twitter.com/GeneAPseattle

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AP's special regional correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Kathy Gannon, contributed from Kandahar.

Associated Press

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New mathematical model links space-time theories

New mathematical model links space-time theories [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 30-May-2013
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Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe.

Professor Kostas Skenderis, Chair in Mathematical Physics at the University, comments: "One of the main recent advances in theoretical physics is the holographic principle. According to this idea, our Universe may be thought of as a hologram and we would like to understand how to formulate the laws of physics for such a holographic Universe."

A new paper released by Professor Skenderis and Dr Marco Caldarelli from the University of Southampton, Dr Joan Camps from the University of Cambridge and Dr Blaise Goutraux from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden published in the Rapid Communication section of Physical Review D, makes connections between negatively curved space-time and flat space-time.

Space-time is usually understood to describe space existing in three dimensions, with time playing the role of a fourth dimension and all four coming together to form a continuum, or a state in which the four elements can't be distinguished from each other.

Flat space-time and negative space-time describe an environment in which the Universe is non-compact, with space extending infinitely, forever in time, in any direction. The gravitational forces, such as the ones produced by a star, are best described by flat-space time. Negatively curved space-time describes a Universe filled with negative vacuum energy. The mathematics of holography is best understood for negatively curved space-times.

Professor Skenderis has developed a mathematic model which finds striking similarities between flat space-time and negatively curved space-time, with the latter however formulated in a negative number of dimensions, beyond our realm of physical perception.

He comments: "According to holography, at a fundamental level the universe has one less dimension than we perceive in everyday life and is governed by laws similar to electromagnetism. The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface, such as in the hologram on a credit card, but now it is the entire Universe that is encoded in such a fashion.

"Our research is ongoing, and we hope to find more connections between flat space-time, negatively curved space-time and holography. Traditional theories about how the Universe operates go some way individually to describing its very nature, but each fall short in different areas. It is our ultimate goal to find a new combined understanding of the Universe, which works across the board."

The paper AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme instability specifically explains what is known as the Gregory Laflamme instability, where certain types of black hole break up into smaller black holes when disturbed rather like a thin stream of water breaking into little droplets when you touch it with your finger. This black hole phenomenon has previously been shown to exist through computer simulations and this work provides a deeper theoretical explanation.

In October 2012, Professor Skenderis was named among 20 other prominent scientists around the world to receive an award from the New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology international grant competition. He received $175,000 to explore the question, 'Was there a beginning of time and space?''.

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The detailed paper AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme instability can be found here: http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v87/i6/e061502


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Contact: Glenn Harris
G.Harris@soton.ac.uk
44-023-805-93212
University of Southampton

Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe.

Professor Kostas Skenderis, Chair in Mathematical Physics at the University, comments: "One of the main recent advances in theoretical physics is the holographic principle. According to this idea, our Universe may be thought of as a hologram and we would like to understand how to formulate the laws of physics for such a holographic Universe."

A new paper released by Professor Skenderis and Dr Marco Caldarelli from the University of Southampton, Dr Joan Camps from the University of Cambridge and Dr Blaise Goutraux from the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Sweden published in the Rapid Communication section of Physical Review D, makes connections between negatively curved space-time and flat space-time.

Space-time is usually understood to describe space existing in three dimensions, with time playing the role of a fourth dimension and all four coming together to form a continuum, or a state in which the four elements can't be distinguished from each other.

Flat space-time and negative space-time describe an environment in which the Universe is non-compact, with space extending infinitely, forever in time, in any direction. The gravitational forces, such as the ones produced by a star, are best described by flat-space time. Negatively curved space-time describes a Universe filled with negative vacuum energy. The mathematics of holography is best understood for negatively curved space-times.

Professor Skenderis has developed a mathematic model which finds striking similarities between flat space-time and negatively curved space-time, with the latter however formulated in a negative number of dimensions, beyond our realm of physical perception.

He comments: "According to holography, at a fundamental level the universe has one less dimension than we perceive in everyday life and is governed by laws similar to electromagnetism. The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface, such as in the hologram on a credit card, but now it is the entire Universe that is encoded in such a fashion.

"Our research is ongoing, and we hope to find more connections between flat space-time, negatively curved space-time and holography. Traditional theories about how the Universe operates go some way individually to describing its very nature, but each fall short in different areas. It is our ultimate goal to find a new combined understanding of the Universe, which works across the board."

The paper AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme instability specifically explains what is known as the Gregory Laflamme instability, where certain types of black hole break up into smaller black holes when disturbed rather like a thin stream of water breaking into little droplets when you touch it with your finger. This black hole phenomenon has previously been shown to exist through computer simulations and this work provides a deeper theoretical explanation.

In October 2012, Professor Skenderis was named among 20 other prominent scientists around the world to receive an award from the New Frontiers in Astronomy and Cosmology international grant competition. He received $175,000 to explore the question, 'Was there a beginning of time and space?''.

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The detailed paper AdS/Ricci-flat correspondence and the Gregory-Laflamme instability can be found here: http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v87/i6/e061502


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Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

What do you Instagram? Food. Cupcakes. The beach. The beach with your sandy feet. Clouds. Dogs. Beer. Selfies. High heels. Forgotten Nights. TBTs. And maybe on some off chance, a blurry photo of a celebrity you saw on the street. Or on a magazine. Or in a movie. You're certainly not as hilarious as Peeje T. He perfectly photoshops celebrities into his Instagram. It's wonderful.

It's really wonderful work. The 25-year-old seamlessly splices himself into pictures of the rich and famous. Jay-Z, Beyonce, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, they're all friends with Peeje T. He gets creative with his work too, using popular images on the Internet and riffing off of it as best he can.

He told the Daily Dot that "it's gotten to the point where people expect me to make a picture when stuff starts to trend on Twitter" and that he hopes to use his graphic design and photo-editing skills to help a future company. You can see more of Peete J's work here (it's as hilarious as any portfolio you'll find and reminds me of Flora Borsi's work at splicing historical photos and Libby Cooper's Facebook cover photos).

Just check out Peeje T stealing Kanye West's seat next to Jay-Z, Beyonce and Kim Kardashian:

Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

Hilarious Guy Photoshops Celebrities into His Instagram Pictures

I just want to LeBron James bear hug him. [@PeejeT via Daily Dot]

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Good Reads: From Chinese dreams, to the Tsarnaevs, to a QWERTY challenger

This week's round-up of Good Reads includes a vague dream for the Chinese, the Boston bombers' connection to radical Islam, why Obama has been so slow to respond to Syria's civil war, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere not seen since the Pliocene era, and a new keyboard configuration for mobile phones.

By Gregory M. Lamb,?Senior Editor / May 16, 2013

A user tries out the QWERTY keyboard on a smart phone.

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China asks its citizens to dream

A nation confidently on its way?to becoming the biggest economy in the world ought to be chasing its own special dreams. So Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping has taken on promoting ?the Chinese dream? as his personal motto, and the Chinese character for ?dream? has been declared the ?character of the year? in China. But what do Chinese think about when they dream? In ?Chasing the Chinese dream,??The Economist?points out the term?s vagueness is both an advantage and a difficulty, a meme able to be fitted to many goals. Militarists see it as more than just an ?American dream? of middle-class prosperity; it?s their dream of a powerful China preeminent on the world stage. Democratic reformers see a move toward Western-style personal and political freedoms. US Secretary of State John Kerry recently tried to lasso the term in the service of better Sino-American relations, proposing that Chinese and American dreams merge into a vision of a ?Pacific Dream? that the two nations pursue together. But where it?s all headed is uncertain: When a people are allowed, even encouraged, to ?dream,? the process may set off a series of unintended consequences.

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How radical were the Tsarnaev brothers?

What caused Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to carry out their bombing of the Boston Marathon? We may never get a definite answer. But in ?The Bombers? World,??Christian Caryl in The New York Review of Books?digs for facts and theories and concludes that despite possible links to radical Islamists ?there are many other details of the Tsarnaev brothers? case that make it seem starkly unique, more of an outlier than something that can be easily slotted into a larger pattern.? Those particulars include the Chechen culture, which places a high value on family and ?honor? (and put immense pressure on Tamerlan, the older brother, to succeed when at the same time he was failing). Among the unanswered questions: Why was this particular Chechen family unable to assimilate into American culture when other Chechens have?

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

BlackBerry Q10 available for pre-order on Verizon, $200 with a two-year contract

BlackBerry Q10 available for preorder on Verizon, $200 with a twoyear contract

For those of you who wouldn't touch a tactile screen if we gave you one, Verizon's just put a smartphone up for pre-order that might be preferable: the Blackberry Q10. Big Red will carry the regular black model and has exclusive dibs on the dapper white Q10 we saw earlier, both of which are on pre-order for $200 with a two-year activation, or $600 sans commitment. On top of real QWERTY chiclets, you'll get a 3.1-inch, 720 x 720 Super AMOLED touch display, dual-core Qualcomm CPU, 2GB of RAM and Blackberry 10.0. As a bonus, Verizon's estimated ship date of June 6th might even line up nicely with the imminent arrival of a certain new version of the OS, too.

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