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China Launches “Hackproof” Satellite – Soon to Be Hacked (Open Thread)
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China Launches “Hackproof” Satellite – Soon to Be Hacked (Open Thread)

UnkaWillbur - Aug 15, 2016

Today, China launched Micius, supposedly the world's first communications satellite to use quantum encryption and billed has "hack-proof." However, claims about the non-hackability of quantum exncription, like…

Monday Morning Link Roundup (Open Thread)
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Monday Morning Link Roundup (Open Thread)

UnkaWillbur - Aug 15, 2016

"Welcome to the working week, I know it don't thrill you, I hope it don't kill you!" - Elvis Costello Here's some of what's going on... Meet…

Post Climate Change Dining (Evening Open Thread)
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Post Climate Change Dining (Evening Open Thread)

UnkaWillbur - Aug 14, 2016

As climate change alters the very fabric of how humans are living, we will all be forced to radically alter what we eat. It looks like this…

Our Lips Are Sealed (Morning Open Thread)
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Our Lips Are Sealed (Morning Open Thread)

UnkaWillbur - Aug 14, 2016

From Rolling Stone: The Go-Go's began as a comically inept all-girl punk novelty act, but within a few years they had made a #1 debut album that…

The Science of Persuasion (Evening Open Thread)
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The Science of Persuasion (Evening Open Thread)

UnkaWillbur - Aug 13, 2016

Professor Robert Cialdini has been studying how people are influenced, using psychological compliance techniques for decades.  These techniques are universal and unconscious and extremely difficult, even impossible…

Farewell Fidgit, Kenny Baker Dead at 81.
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Farewell Fidgit, Kenny Baker Dead at 81.

UnkaWillbur - Aug 13, 2016

Kenny Baker, one of the most prolific and beloved Little Person actors of the last 100 years passed away today, after a long illness. Perhaps best-known by…

12 To The Moon on “Saturday Sci Fi” (Open Thread)
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12 To The Moon on “Saturday Sci Fi” (Open Thread)

UnkaWillbur - Aug 13, 2016

"Twelve To The Moon" is one of those films. It's built on a total lack of understanding of what we already knew about space, at the time…

Who Am I Again? (Evening Open Thread)
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Who Am I Again? (Evening Open Thread)

UnkaWillbur - Aug 12, 2016

Now in the middle of its second season, the SciFi Channel series "Dark Matter" has proven to be a remarkably good piece of TV science fiction. Perhaps…

Do You Want To Touch It? (Morning Open Thread)
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Do You Want To Touch It? (Morning Open Thread)

UnkaWillbur - Aug 12, 2016

[twitter_video id="763491037218078720"] Voice actor, Billy West, is known for such famous characters as Ren Höek on Ren & Stimpy and Phillip J. Fry on Futurama, as well…

Where Everybody Knows You Name (Evening Open Thread)
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Where Everybody Knows You Name (Evening Open Thread)

UnkaWillbur - Aug 12, 2016

Anyone who lived through the 80s probably knows this song by heart. Or, at least they think they do. When you listen to the whole thing, you…