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Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
Science & Futurism
* "Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes" (2019-05-16, cam.ac.uk/research/news/washable-wearable-battery-like-devices-could-be-woven-directly-into-clothes) [archive.fo/AHOTH]
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* "Accelerating quantum technologies with materials processing at the atomic scale" (2019-05-14, University of Oxford, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190514104100.htm) [archive.is/4adK0], summary: An emerging suite of information technologies based on fundamental quantum physics has been given a boost by researchers who have invented a method to engineer single atomic defects in diamond using laser processing.
* "Generating high-quality single photons for quantum computing; New dual-cavity design emits more single photons that can carry quantum information at room temperature" (2019-05-14, news.mit.edu/2019/single-photons-quantum-computing-0514) [archive.is/3VyzK]
* "Quantum world-first: researchers reveal accuracy of two-qubit calculations in silicon" (2019-05-23, via spacedaily.com/reports/Quantum_world_first_researchers_reveal_accuracy_of_two_qubit_calculations_in_silicon_999.html) [archive.is/mq546]
* "Fidelity benchmarks for two-qubit gates in silicon" (2019-05-13, via nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1197-0) [archive.is/fFlzc]
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* "New compact hyperspectral system captures 5-D images" (2018-08-28, phys.org/news/2018-08-compact-hyperspectral-captures-d-images.html) [https://web.archive.org/web/20180828181642/https://phys.org/news/2018-08-compact-hyperspectral-captures-d-images.html]
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Space News
* "Multiple former ice caps buried under Mars’s north polar ice" (2019-05-22, joint press release, news.agu.org/press-release/multiple-former-ice-caps-buried-under-marss-north-polar-ice/) [archive.is/L6bXy]
* "Massive Martian Ice Discovery Opens a Window into Red Planet’s History" (2019-05-22, news.utexas.edu/2019/05/22/massive-martian-ice-discovery-opens-a-window-into-red-planets-history/) [archive.is/BFzQC]
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* "Neptune's moon Triton fosters rare icy union" (2019-05-22, Gemini Observatory, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190522141752.htm) [archive.is/MKzQc], summary: Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune's largest moon Triton and observe, for the first time beyond the lab, an extraordinary union between carbon monoxide and nitrogen ices. The discovery offers insights into how this volatile mixture can transport material across the moon's surface via geysers, trigger seasonal atmospheric changes, and provide a context for conditions on other distant, icy worlds.
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* "18 Earth-sized exoplanets discovered; Scientists have used a new method to find small exoplanets, which previous surveys had overlooked" (2019-05-22, mpg.de/13505027/0522-aero-061986-18-earth-sized-exoplanets-discovered) [archive.is/ViW2X], summary: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), the Georg August University of Göttingen, and the Sonneberg Observatory have discovered 18 Earth-sized planets beyond the solar system. The worlds are so small that previous surveys had overlooked them. One of them is one of the smallest known so far; another one could offer conditions friendly to life. The researchers re-analyzed a part of the data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope with a new and more sensitive method that they developed. The team estimates that their new method has the potential of finding more than 100 additional exoplanets in the Kepler mission’s entire data set. The scientists describe their results in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
- image caption: Almost all known exoplanets are larger than Earth and typically as large as the gas planet Neptune. The 18 newly discovered planets (here in orange and green), for comparison, are much smaller than Neptune, three of them even smaller than Earth and two more as large as Earth. Planet EPIC 201238110.02 is the only one of the new planets cool enough to potentially host liquid water on its surface.
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* "Three exocomets discovered around the star Beta Pictoris" (2019-05-23, uibk.ac.at, via spacedaily.com/reports/Three_exocomets_discovered_around_the_star_Beta_Pictoris_999.html) [archive.is/aSgTM]
* "A transiting exocomet detected in broadband light by TESS in the β Pictoris system" (2019-03-26, arxiv.org/abs/1903.11071v1) [archive.is/BGJ7s]
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* "Stellar waltz with dramatic ending; Extremely rare fusion of two white dwarfs identified" (2019-05-21, by University of Bonn, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190521124538.htm) [archive.is/VcAgh], summary: Astronomers have identified an unusual celestial object. It is most likely the product of the fusion of two stars that died a long time ago. After billions of years circling around each other these so-called white dwarfs merged and rose from the dead. In the near future, their lives could finally end -- with a huge bang.
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Ancient News
Backbeat [archive.is/INMHk]
* "Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers" (2019-05-21, University of Cambridge, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190520115646.htm) [archive.is/kSzpc] [begin excerpt]: Hunter-gatherers in the Philippines who adopt farming work around ten hours a week longer than their forager neighbours, a new study suggests, complicating the idea that agriculture represents progress. The research also shows that a shift to agriculture impacts most on the lives of women.
For two years, a team including University of Cambridge anthropologist Dr Mark Dyble, lived with the Agta, a population of small scale hunter-gatherers from the northern Philippines who are increasingly engaging in agriculture.
Every day, at regular intervals between 6am and 6pm, the researchers recorded what their hosts were doing and by repeating this in ten different communities, they calculated how 359 people divided their time between leisure, childcare, domestic chores and out-of-camp work. While some Agta communities engage exclusively in hunting and gathering, others divide their time between foraging and rice farming.
The study, published today in Nature Human Behaviour, reveals that increased engagement in farming and other non-foraging work resulted in the Agta working harder and losing leisure time. On average, the team estimate that Agta engaged primarily in farming work around 30 hours per week while foragers only do so for 20 hours. They found that this dramatic difference was largely due to women being drawn away from domestic activities to working in the fields. The study found that women living in the communities most involved in farming had half as much leisure time as those in communities which only foraged.
Dr Dyble, first author of the study, says: "For a long time, the transition from foraging to farming was assumed to represent progress, allowing people to escape an arduous and precarious way of life.
"But as soon as anthropologists started working with hunter-gatherers they began questioning this narrative, finding that foragers actually enjoy quite a lot of leisure time. Our data provides some of the clearest support for this idea yet."
The study found that on average, Agta adults spent around 24 hours each week engaged in out-of-camp work, around 20 hours each week doing domestic chores and around 30 hours of daylight leisure time. But the researchers found that time allocation differed significantly between adults.
For both men and women leisure time was lowest at around 30 years of age, steadily increasing in later life. There was also a sexual division of labour with women spending less time working out-of-camp, and more time engaged in domestic chores and childcare than men, even though men and women had a similar amount of leisure time. However, the study found that the adoption of farming had a disproportionate impact on women's lives.
Dr Dyble says "This might be because agricultural work is more easily shared between the sexes than hunting or fishing. Or there may be other reasons why men aren't prepared or able to spend more time working out-of-camp. This needs further examination."
Agriculture emerged independently in multiple locations world-wide around 12,500 years ago, and had replaced hunting and gathering as the dominant mode of human subsistence around 5,000 years ago. [end excerpt]
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* "Angkor appreciated by Gen-Z Cambodians" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d7949444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/OQDm6]
* "Bokator is back in the history books; The Khmer martial art form is unique as every single part of the body can be used as a weapon, but it was almost wiped out in this generation" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d3445444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/WrZwj]
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* "Centuries-old knife-making craft faces preservation challenges" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414e7749444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/4BgR2]
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* "China's relic-rich city to build over 100 museums in 3 yrs" (2019-05-23, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d3159444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/uEymW]
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* "Ancient charm of China: Huangyao Ancient Town" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674e3541444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/iumyv]
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* "Nanhai One shipwreck: A time capsule of civilizations" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d3149444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/2ubny], video page (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/7745544f34494464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/qSP2o]
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* "Saudi underwater archaeologist unearths maritime links with China" (2019-05-23, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414e3259444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/86sfV]
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Science & Futurism
* "Washable, wearable battery-like devices could be woven directly into clothes" (2019-05-16, cam.ac.uk/research/news/washable-wearable-battery-like-devices-could-be-woven-directly-into-clothes) [archive.fo/AHOTH]
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* "Accelerating quantum technologies with materials processing at the atomic scale" (2019-05-14, University of Oxford, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190514104100.htm) [archive.is/4adK0], summary: An emerging suite of information technologies based on fundamental quantum physics has been given a boost by researchers who have invented a method to engineer single atomic defects in diamond using laser processing.
* "Generating high-quality single photons for quantum computing; New dual-cavity design emits more single photons that can carry quantum information at room temperature" (2019-05-14, news.mit.edu/2019/single-photons-quantum-computing-0514) [archive.is/3VyzK]
* "Quantum world-first: researchers reveal accuracy of two-qubit calculations in silicon" (2019-05-23, via spacedaily.com/reports/Quantum_world_first_researchers_reveal_accuracy_of_two_qubit_calculations_in_silicon_999.html) [archive.is/mq546]
* "Fidelity benchmarks for two-qubit gates in silicon" (2019-05-13, via nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1197-0) [archive.is/fFlzc]
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* "New compact hyperspectral system captures 5-D images" (2018-08-28, phys.org/news/2018-08-compact-hyperspectral-captures-d-images.html) [https://web.archive.org/web/20180828181642/https://phys.org/news/2018-08-compact-hyperspectral-captures-d-images.html]
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Space News
* "Multiple former ice caps buried under Mars’s north polar ice" (2019-05-22, joint press release, news.agu.org/press-release/multiple-former-ice-caps-buried-under-marss-north-polar-ice/) [archive.is/L6bXy]
* "Massive Martian Ice Discovery Opens a Window into Red Planet’s History" (2019-05-22, news.utexas.edu/2019/05/22/massive-martian-ice-discovery-opens-a-window-into-red-planets-history/) [archive.is/BFzQC]
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* "Neptune's moon Triton fosters rare icy union" (2019-05-22, Gemini Observatory, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190522141752.htm) [archive.is/MKzQc], summary: Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune's largest moon Triton and observe, for the first time beyond the lab, an extraordinary union between carbon monoxide and nitrogen ices. The discovery offers insights into how this volatile mixture can transport material across the moon's surface via geysers, trigger seasonal atmospheric changes, and provide a context for conditions on other distant, icy worlds.
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* "18 Earth-sized exoplanets discovered; Scientists have used a new method to find small exoplanets, which previous surveys had overlooked" (2019-05-22, mpg.de/13505027/0522-aero-061986-18-earth-sized-exoplanets-discovered) [archive.is/ViW2X], summary: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), the Georg August University of Göttingen, and the Sonneberg Observatory have discovered 18 Earth-sized planets beyond the solar system. The worlds are so small that previous surveys had overlooked them. One of them is one of the smallest known so far; another one could offer conditions friendly to life. The researchers re-analyzed a part of the data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope with a new and more sensitive method that they developed. The team estimates that their new method has the potential of finding more than 100 additional exoplanets in the Kepler mission’s entire data set. The scientists describe their results in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
- image caption: Almost all known exoplanets are larger than Earth and typically as large as the gas planet Neptune. The 18 newly discovered planets (here in orange and green), for comparison, are much smaller than Neptune, three of them even smaller than Earth and two more as large as Earth. Planet EPIC 201238110.02 is the only one of the new planets cool enough to potentially host liquid water on its surface.
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* "Three exocomets discovered around the star Beta Pictoris" (2019-05-23, uibk.ac.at, via spacedaily.com/reports/Three_exocomets_discovered_around_the_star_Beta_Pictoris_999.html) [archive.is/aSgTM]
* "A transiting exocomet detected in broadband light by TESS in the β Pictoris system" (2019-03-26, arxiv.org/abs/1903.11071v1) [archive.is/BGJ7s]
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* "Stellar waltz with dramatic ending; Extremely rare fusion of two white dwarfs identified" (2019-05-21, by University of Bonn, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190521124538.htm) [archive.is/VcAgh], summary: Astronomers have identified an unusual celestial object. It is most likely the product of the fusion of two stars that died a long time ago. After billions of years circling around each other these so-called white dwarfs merged and rose from the dead. In the near future, their lives could finally end -- with a huge bang.
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Ancient News
Backbeat [archive.is/INMHk]
* "Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers" (2019-05-21, University of Cambridge, via sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190520115646.htm) [archive.is/kSzpc] [begin excerpt]: Hunter-gatherers in the Philippines who adopt farming work around ten hours a week longer than their forager neighbours, a new study suggests, complicating the idea that agriculture represents progress. The research also shows that a shift to agriculture impacts most on the lives of women.
For two years, a team including University of Cambridge anthropologist Dr Mark Dyble, lived with the Agta, a population of small scale hunter-gatherers from the northern Philippines who are increasingly engaging in agriculture.
Every day, at regular intervals between 6am and 6pm, the researchers recorded what their hosts were doing and by repeating this in ten different communities, they calculated how 359 people divided their time between leisure, childcare, domestic chores and out-of-camp work. While some Agta communities engage exclusively in hunting and gathering, others divide their time between foraging and rice farming.
The study, published today in Nature Human Behaviour, reveals that increased engagement in farming and other non-foraging work resulted in the Agta working harder and losing leisure time. On average, the team estimate that Agta engaged primarily in farming work around 30 hours per week while foragers only do so for 20 hours. They found that this dramatic difference was largely due to women being drawn away from domestic activities to working in the fields. The study found that women living in the communities most involved in farming had half as much leisure time as those in communities which only foraged.
Dr Dyble, first author of the study, says: "For a long time, the transition from foraging to farming was assumed to represent progress, allowing people to escape an arduous and precarious way of life.
"But as soon as anthropologists started working with hunter-gatherers they began questioning this narrative, finding that foragers actually enjoy quite a lot of leisure time. Our data provides some of the clearest support for this idea yet."
The study found that on average, Agta adults spent around 24 hours each week engaged in out-of-camp work, around 20 hours each week doing domestic chores and around 30 hours of daylight leisure time. But the researchers found that time allocation differed significantly between adults.
For both men and women leisure time was lowest at around 30 years of age, steadily increasing in later life. There was also a sexual division of labour with women spending less time working out-of-camp, and more time engaged in domestic chores and childcare than men, even though men and women had a similar amount of leisure time. However, the study found that the adoption of farming had a disproportionate impact on women's lives.
Dr Dyble says "This might be because agricultural work is more easily shared between the sexes than hunting or fishing. Or there may be other reasons why men aren't prepared or able to spend more time working out-of-camp. This needs further examination."
Agriculture emerged independently in multiple locations world-wide around 12,500 years ago, and had replaced hunting and gathering as the dominant mode of human subsistence around 5,000 years ago. [end excerpt]
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* "Angkor appreciated by Gen-Z Cambodians" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d7949444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/OQDm6]
* "Bokator is back in the history books; The Khmer martial art form is unique as every single part of the body can be used as a weapon, but it was almost wiped out in this generation" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d3445444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/WrZwj]
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* "Centuries-old knife-making craft faces preservation challenges" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414e7749444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/4BgR2]
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* "China's relic-rich city to build over 100 museums in 3 yrs" (2019-05-23, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514d3159444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/uEymW]
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* "Ancient charm of China: Huangyao Ancient Town" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674e3541444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/iumyv]
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* "Nanhai One shipwreck: A time capsule of civilizations" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d3149444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/2ubny], video page (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/7745544f34494464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/qSP2o]
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* "Saudi underwater archaeologist unearths maritime links with China" (2019-05-23, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414e3259444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/86sfV]
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* "Mass movement: Scientists adopt new kilogram definition" (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514f3341444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/magM6]
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Curiata
* "Mexicans left without shadows thanks to peculiar solar phenomenon" (2019-05-27, rt.com/news/460378-peculiar-solar-phenomenon-mexico-shadows/) [archive.is/G3Exs]
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* "China's Indigenous Religion: Taoism emphasizes harmony between humanity and nature" video page (2019-05-21, news.cgtn.com/news/3341544f34494464776c6d636a4e6e62684a4856/index.html) [archive.is/kCRYe]
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* "A visit to the Holy See of Vietnam’s homegrown religion" (2019-05-22, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d314d444f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/BfH4g]
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* "First known white-colored panda spotted in China" (2019-05-26, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e7a45544f34457a6333566d54/index.html) [archive.is/jK8lR]
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