Seals can copy human speech and sing Star Wars theme tune, new study says Sky News. n=3
Raymond Frank "Ray" Mathew (14 April 1929 – 27 May 2002) was an Australian author. Mathew wrote poetry, drama, radio plays and filmscripts, short stories, novels, arts and literature criticism, and other non-fiction. He left Australia in 1960 and never returned, dying in New York where he had lived from 1968
Planning to stay at peak intellectual performance into old age? Odds are you won’t. Indeed, decline may already have set in
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Maarten van Doorn, via
Medium
Today,
everyone can get more information than ever. Paradoxically, this has made the
truth less — not more — accessible.
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Amy Cooper Hakim, via
LinkedIn
Here
are some easy tips to maintain your sanity and your job if you’re working for
an illogical boss.
I spy another masterpiece in The Atlantic
Deniss Metsavas, an Estonian
military officer convicted of spying for the Russian military. (Photo courtesy
of The Atlantic)
Somebody is going to make a movie out of Michael Weiss’s latest
in The Atlantic called “The
Making of a Russian Spy.” It’s the story of Deniss Metsavas, an Estonian
military officer who was recently convicted of spying for the GRU — the Russian
military intelligence service that hacked Democratic National Committee emails
before the 2016 presidential election.
This was the first time someone in the Western media was able to
interview a captured GRU operative. The piece also includes a 14-minute
documentary with new interviews with Metsavas and Estonian intelligence
officials.
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Using CRISPR to resurrect the dead
Science has already unraveled the DNA code of long-dead species such as the woolly mammoth, the passenger pigeon and Australia’s iconic Tasmanian tiger — and now, pioneering researchers are using CRISPR to remake modern-day descendants in the image of their ancient counterparts. Could we transform an Asian elephant into a woolly mammoth? We are marching toward that reality…”
