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![[:es]Study Finds Women and Minorities in STEM Are Discriminated Against, to the Shock of No One[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2018/01/1515536145041-shutterstock_400221685.jpeg)
[:es]Study Finds Women and Minorities in STEM Are Discriminated Against, to the Shock of No One[:]
Diversity efforts in science and technology aren’t successfully combating discrimination, finds Pew Research Center.
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![[:es]Someone Programmed an Arduino Board with a Worm’s Brain[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/10/1507148647509-Caenorhabditis_elegans_DAPI.jpeg)
[:es]Someone Programmed an Arduino Board with a Worm’s Brain[:]
302 simulated roundworm neurons running on a cheap hobbyist hardware platform.
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![[:es]Study That Claimed AI Could Determine a Person’s Sexuality Is Under Ethical Review[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/09/1505226978780-Screen-Shot-2017-09-12-at-103427-AM.jpg)
[:es]Study That Claimed AI Could Determine a Person’s Sexuality Is Under Ethical Review[:]
The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology is reexamining a Stanford study after it received significant backlash.
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![[:eu]Today’s Kids Could Live Through Machine Superintelligence, Martian Colonies, and a Nuclear Attack[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/05/1495724500073-1165px-Concept_Mars_colony.jpeg)
[:eu]Today’s Kids Could Live Through Machine Superintelligence, Martian Colonies, and a Nuclear Attack[:]
If humanity realizes the best possible future, we could quite possibly usher in an era of unprecedented human flourishing, happiness, and value. But if the great experiment of civilization fails, our species could meet the same fate as the dinosaurs.
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![[:eu]Monster Icebergs Crowding Canada’s Coast Are Likely Harbingers of Climate Change[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/04/1492635709207-15209575.jpeg)
[:eu]Monster Icebergs Crowding Canada’s Coast Are Likely Harbingers of Climate Change[:]
They’re a beautiful sight, and a looming reminder of our changing planet.
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![[:eu]Can We Turn Our Intuition Into a Real-Life Superpower?[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/03/1489790985512-shutterstock_396756052.jpeg)
[:eu]Can We Turn Our Intuition Into a Real-Life Superpower?[:]
US military scientists are trying to identify where “gut feelings” come from in an effort to create the perfect soldiers.
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![[:eu]This Kaleidoscopic Visualization Maps Earth’s Mysterious Magnetic Anomalies[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/03/1490115926776-cover.jpg)
[:eu]This Kaleidoscopic Visualization Maps Earth’s Mysterious Magnetic Anomalies[:]
Our planet is sculpted by hidden magnetic flourishes.
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![[:eu]NASA Will Create the Coldest Spot in the Known Universe Onboard the ISS[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/03/1489404482401-image01.jpeg)
[:eu]NASA Will Create the Coldest Spot in the Known Universe Onboard the ISS[:]
This summer, NASA scientists will create the chillest zone in the known universe inside of cooler-sized payload, appropriately named the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL). The small suite of instruments is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in August, on SpaceX CRS-12 mission, where it will leverage the station’s microgravity environment to create…
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![[:eu]The Real Threat Is Machine Incompetence, Not Intelligence[:]](https://katedra.eus/app/uploads/2017/02/1486337640879-sdi-image02.jpeg)
[:eu]The Real Threat Is Machine Incompetence, Not Intelligence[:]
There is a real AI threat, but it’s not human-like machine intelligence gone amok. Quite the opposite: the danger is instead shitty AI. Incompetent, bumbling machines.