Briana Brownell

Tech entrepreneur. Data scientist. Lover of art, music, travel, food, wine, and improbable shoes. Narrowly avoided living with a leopard in SoMA. www.leopardless.com

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Japan
Japan Approves Scientist's Plan to Create World's First Humanimals
Gizmodo
For the first time, a government is supporting a plan to create animal embryos with human cells and bring them to term, resulting in a type of …
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Tech Industry
Learn to love your regulated future: A message from Wall Street to Silicon Valley
VentureBeat - Mazy Dar, OpenFin
Move fast and break things: It’s a philosophy that many in the tech world have adopted as their mantra, long after Mark Zuckerberg immortalized it as the unofficial motto of Silicon Valley. Innovation
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Cancer
Graphic Medicine and the Limits of Biostatistics
American Medical Association
Increasing reliance on statistics for treatment and clinical risk assessment not only leads to the reductive interpretation of disease but also …
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Health
AI in health care: Capacity, capability, and a future of active health in Asia
MIT Technology Review - MIT Technology Review Insights
To address a critical gap in health-care resources, the region is becoming a center of innovation in health-care artificial intelligence, robotics, …
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Culture
Simone Biles Is Mathematically the Best Gymnast in History After This Weekend
GQ - Luke Darby
The 22-year-old broke the world record for most gymnastics medals two times in one day. This weekend Stuttgart, Germany, hosted the World Gymnastics Championship, and while it's nominally a venue for best
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Moon
Do we owe our existence to the Moon?
Salon - Keith A. Spencer
The far side of the moon as pictured with Earth in the background; taken from the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft. (NASA/NOAA) Science fiction can be oddly prescient. Though "Star Trek," "Star
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Artificial Intelligence
Sunday Reading: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
The New Yorker
We’re living through an extraordinary moment in technological history. In the past decade, the rise of artificial intelligence (both in theory and in practice) has revolutionized computer science and workplace.
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Exoplanets
This exoplanet challenges our understanding of planet formation
TNW - The Conversation
The discovery of yet another exoplanet is no longer news. More than 4,000 planets around other stars have now been found since the detection of the first one in 1995. As astronomers long suspected, or
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Universe
The astrophysicist searching for the Universe’s ‘dark stars’
BBC Future
The suspect is the basic matter that makes up as much as 25% of the Universe. It is part of the very web of all that we live in. And yet because it is not made of even the most basic building blocks of
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Arizona State University
Why Everything Is Getting Louder
The Atlantic - Bianca Bosker
The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can’t adapt. Karthic Thallikar first noticed the noise sometime in late 2014, back when he still enjoyed taking walks around his neighborhood. He’d
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Neurophilosophy
Minibrains Grown In The Laboratory Produce Brainwaves. Now What?
Forbes - Elizabeth Fernandez
It’s hard to study the human brain. It is the most complex in the animal kingdom with its massive collection of neurons, 80-100 billion to be exact, three times more than chimpanzees. Research relating
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Energy
Black holes might not crush you after all—they could be even weirder than that
SYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne
Just when you thought one of the most bizarre things in space was something that eats massive amounts of light and energy and would probably shred …
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Mathematics
With Category Theory, Mathematics Escapes From Equality
Quanta Magazine - Kevin Hartnett
Two monumental works have led many mathematicians to avoid the equal sign. Their goal: Rebuild the foundations of the discipline upon the looser …
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Moon
The First Photograph of the Dark Side of the Moon from 1959
kottke.org - Jason Kottke
With the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the Soviet Union kicked off the Space Race and for the first several years (arguable up until the Moon landing in …
October 2
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Personalization
Consumers Are Wary About Personalization in Retail, but Open to It
Adweek - Diana Pearl
Shoppers in the United Kingdom may be increasingly comfortable with personalization in retail, but they still have reservations, a new study …
October 2
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Science
Recession: how unstable economic times take a physical toll on your brain
Inverse - Emma Betuel
Brain scans show how income instability is linked to "unhealthy aging" "This poor performance is greater than what is normally seen due to one year in …
October 2
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Science
The Biggest Quantum Breakthrough Yet—Literally
Popular Mechanics - By Jennifer Leman
For the first time ever, physicists tested the phenomenon of quantum superposition using molecules. That's a big deal. Physicists have long struggled with a perplexing conundrum: How do we reconcile what
October 2
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Jokes
Hey computer, tell me a joke: the problem of teaching AI humour
sciencefocus.com - Arthur I. Miller
Artificial intelligence can learn the structure of a knock knock joke easily enough. But will it ever understand what makes us laugh? Have you heard …
October 2
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Painting
Energetic Cityscapes Recreated as Pixelated Palette Knife Paintings
My Modern Met - Emma Taggart
British artist Jason Anderson creates colorful abstract paintings composed of pixelated swatches of pastel-toned oil paint. Up-close, the artist’s paintings look like blocky layers of shapes and color;
October 2
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NASA
NASA is now officially accepting proposals for landers to take people to the Moon
The Verge - Loren Grush
NASA is now officially accepting proposals for lunar lander designs that can carry humans to the surface of the Moon. The space agency issued a final call to the commercial space industry today, with due
October 1
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Charles Darwin
Curious Kids: how do scientists know evolution is real?
theconversation.com - Jenny Graves
If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. How do scientists know that evolution is real? – …
October 1
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Mathematics
Infinite Powers: The Story Of Calculus
Forbes - GrrlScientist
Calculus is one the most profound inventions in human history. It underlies most modern technologies such as radio, television, radar, GPS navigation, cell phones, and MRI imaging. It informs meteorology,
October 1
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Mars
When -- or if -- NASA finds life on Mars, the world may not be ready for the discovery, the agency chief says
CNN - By Scottie Andrew, CNN
(CNN) — NASA's next mission to Mars will be its most advanced yet. But if scientists discover there was once life -- or there is life -- on the Red Planet, will the public be able to handle such an extraterrestrial
October 1
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George Smith
Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero
National Geographic - Francisco del Rio Sanchez
A self-taught scholar was responsible for finding the world’s first epic myth hidden among broken clay tablets in the British Museum. Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets
September 30
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Physics
Is It a Wave or a Particle? It's Both, Sort Of.
space.com - Paul Sutter
Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." …
September 30
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Programming
Learn to “Think Like A Coder” with our new series
ted.com
Curious about coding? Want to build your programming skills? Or perhaps you just love a good problem-solving challenge? We’re thrilled to announce our …
September 30
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Indie Music
Why music has such profound effects on the brain
pbs.org - Megan Thompson
Have you ever wondered why you sometimes get a tingling feeling when you hear a certain piece of music? We did, and we thought we could ask a …
September 30
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Space
Space Photos of the Week: The ISS is Out of This World
WIRED - Condé Nast
The International Space Station is a football-field-sized science laboratory that orbits some 250 miles above Earth. Usually between three to nine …
September 29
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The Brain
What a New Theory of Attention Says About Consciousness
The Atlantic - Jordana CepelewiczQuanta
Filtering out distractions might be more important for the brain than highlighting important information. We can pick out a conversation in a loud room, amid the rise and fall of other voices or the hum
September 29
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Mathematics
A Big Question About Prime Numbers Gets a Partial Answer
WIRED - Condé Nast
On September 7, two mathematicians posted a proof of a version of one of the most famous open problems in mathematics. The result opens a new front …
September 29