Tuesday, July 31, 2018

@12:40, 7/31/18

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1
Science

Video: How Empathetic Is Your Dog?

An experiment involving 34 dogs of various breeds tested whether they would push through a magnetically sealed door to “save” their owners.

Text works better .

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/science/lassie-help-dog.html

It is worth the test.
Try it with selected samples.
Empathetic and solipsistic dogs should be different.
Training should also make a difference.

2
Style

How Do I Stop Wanting to Cheat?

A reader loves her boyfriend but misses other men. Is it better to come clean to her partner, or suppress her feelings forever?

Good advice.
"Talk helps."

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.

3
U.S.

Facebook Has Identified Ongoing Political Influence Campaign

Facebook has identified a coordinated political influence campaign that includes stoking division around white supremacy and the Abolish ICE movement.

FaceBook is a bad Idea.
It is a virtual flash mob.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd

"
"Flash Crowd" is a 1973 English-language novella by science fiction author Larry Niven,[1] one of a series about the social consequence of inventing an instant, practically free transfer booth.[2]
One consequence not foreseen by the builders of the system was that with the almost immediate reporting of newsworthy events, tens of thousands of people worldwide — along with criminals — would teleport to the scene of anything interesting, thus creating disorder and confusion. The plot centers around a television journalist who, after being fired for his inadvertent role in inciting a post-robbery riot in Los Angeles, seeks to independently investigate the teleportation system for the flaws in its design allowing for such spontaneous riots to occur. His investigation takes him to destinations and people around the world within the matter of less than 12 hours before he gets his chance to plead his case on television, and he encounters the wide-ranging effects of displacements upon aspects of human behavior such as settlement, crime, natural resources, agriculture, waste management and tourism."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob

4
Style

The Fight for the One-Piece Swimsuit Emoji

Why is the only bathing suit available in the emoji lexicon a polka-dot bikini? Two women have finally proposed an alternative. Not everyone is convinced.

"If you build it, they will come."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICkWjdQuK7Q&spfreload=5

5
Opinion

Video: Need a Lawyer? Better Call Rudy.

Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani took viewers of Fox and Friends and CNN on a wild ride Monday morning. Here’s his not-so-definitive guide to legal defense.

Collusion is the appearance of conspiracy.

Giullani is  not  helping.

6
New York

He Used Tinder to Hunt the Women He Raped and Killed, Police Say

Danueal Drayton, 27, strangled a nurse in Queens and raped others in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, investigators say. They are looking for other victims.

Some monsters think.
They are evil.


Movies

Review: ‘Nico, 1988’ Dramatizes the Singer’s Tormented Final Years

A biopic about the Velvet Underground vocalist thrums with nervous energy as it depicts her struggles with heroin and a jagged relationship with her suicidal son.

The general picture was enough.
I don't want the details now.

8
Business Day

How Companies Are Making Customers Pay for Trump’s Trade War

As second-quarter earnings pour in, executives are telling investors that they can raise prices to offset the impact of tariffs.

Fiduciary responsibility gives the companies no other choice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary

9
Arts

Alan Alda Reveals He Has Parkinson’s Disease

“I thought it’s probably only a matter of time before somebody does a story about this from a sad point of view; but that’s not where I am,” the M*A*S*H actor said.

Forty five years is a long time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M*A*S*H_%28TV_series%29

10
Arts

Three Shows to Watch This Week

Do you fancy television about crafts, murder or prison?

Off to explore us 17 and I86.  Back 8/6/18.

Taking a small computer and my cell phone.

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