I wanted to check the statistics on a previous post, and discovered how racist the world is.
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Google is racist
I wanted to check the statistics on a previous post, and discovered how racist the world is.
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Blue Origin's slightly weird landing video
Cooooool.... apart from the crappy CGI in the middle. But the landing sequence is awesome !
Originally shared by Jenny Winder
Watch Blue Origin’s surprise rocket launch and safe landing
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28539-watch-blue-origins-surprise-rocket-launch-and-safe-landing/
Originally shared by Jenny Winder
Watch Blue Origin’s surprise rocket launch and safe landing
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28539-watch-blue-origins-surprise-rocket-launch-and-safe-landing/
Take that, SpaceX !
Bezos have arguably just trumped Space X by vertically landing a rocket after a flight to 100 km altitude. Not an orbital flight though.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34909713
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34909713
Monday, 23 November 2015
The right response to terrorism
THIS. This is how you respond to terrorism.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34897645
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34897645
Housing the homeless by... giving them homes !
"Tsemberis soon received $500,000 in federal funding, which he used to track what happened to 139 chronically homeless people who were immediately housed and offered counseling. In 1997, the results arrived. The small team couldn’t believe it. It showed a retention rate of nearly 85 percent. The next best model’s retention rate? Sixty percent."
Forget your ideology and anecdotes about the homeless. Focus on the statistics. This actually works. Yes, there will always, always be some freeloaders who will exploit the system : any system. This model, however, minimizes that.
Originally shared by Adam Liss
No matter how averse you are to simply giving things to the people who need them most, you can't argue against the facts and data. It turns out that the best way to fight homelessness—the least expensive, with the highest long-term success rate—is to put homeless people in homes. Follow up with whatever mental health, addiction, or other issues they need to surmount, but first give them a safe, stable place to live. Then help them to thrive.
We need to revisit much of what we think we know;. Traditional ideas are often based on poor research, or on no research at all; they just sound right intuitively. But they often are just plain wrong. The philosophy of giving people what they need, unconditionally, is proven every time it's tried. They're indigent? Give them money. They're homeless? Give them homes. They're bigoted, racist, and selfish? Introduce them to the people they great and hate.
They're against expensive social programs that take money out of their own pockets? Have them give directly and protectively. It's both cheaper and more effective.
Via Piaw Na
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/05/06/meet-the-outsider-who-accidentally-solved-chronic-homelessness/
Forget your ideology and anecdotes about the homeless. Focus on the statistics. This actually works. Yes, there will always, always be some freeloaders who will exploit the system : any system. This model, however, minimizes that.
Originally shared by Adam Liss
No matter how averse you are to simply giving things to the people who need them most, you can't argue against the facts and data. It turns out that the best way to fight homelessness—the least expensive, with the highest long-term success rate—is to put homeless people in homes. Follow up with whatever mental health, addiction, or other issues they need to surmount, but first give them a safe, stable place to live. Then help them to thrive.
We need to revisit much of what we think we know;. Traditional ideas are often based on poor research, or on no research at all; they just sound right intuitively. But they often are just plain wrong. The philosophy of giving people what they need, unconditionally, is proven every time it's tried. They're indigent? Give them money. They're homeless? Give them homes. They're bigoted, racist, and selfish? Introduce them to the people they great and hate.
They're against expensive social programs that take money out of their own pockets? Have them give directly and protectively. It's both cheaper and more effective.
Via Piaw Na
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/05/06/meet-the-outsider-who-accidentally-solved-chronic-homelessness/
Saturday, 21 November 2015
Science funding in the political arena
This is a nice, detailed article which is ruined by the BBC's stupid habit of writing sequences of short, one-sentence "paragraphs". Come on. My high school English teacher wouldn't have put up with that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34871075
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34871075
Pigeon-based cancer detectors
Forget worrying about whether technology will put us all out of work, the real threat is from our feathered "friends".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34878151
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34878151
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