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Ancient Babylonian Clay Tablet Holds the First Trigonometric Table

Ancient Babylonian Clay Tablet Holds the First Trigonometric Table

August 26, 2017 By Clayton Meason

The CDC Draws Attention To The Spike In Cyclosporiasis Cases

The CDC Draws Attention To The Spike In Cyclosporiasis Cases

August 11, 2017 By Troy G. Bennett

Travis Kalanick Resigns from His Position as Uber’s CEO

Travis Kalanick Resigns from His Position as Uber’s CEO

June 22, 2017 By Troy G. Bennett

Amazon Refunds Parents Whose Children Made Purchases Without Permission

Amazon Refunds Parents Whose Children Made Purchases Without Permission

June 2, 2017 By Clayton Meason

McDonald’s Has Been Quietly Altering Its Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

McDonald’s Has Been Quietly Altering Its Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

May 21, 2017 By Jennifer Licata

Washington Post Will Be Expanding Its Newsroom

Washington Post Will Be Expanding Its Newsroom

December 28, 2016 By Troy G. Bennett

Factom Appoints Jacob Dienelt as New Head Treasurer

April 5, 2015 By Troy G. Bennett

Factom Appoints Jacob Dienelt as New Head TreasurerJacob Dienelt, investment manager at Morgan Stanley, was hired as the new head treasurer of Factom, a bitcoin technology company. He co-founded Lazzerbee, a company for paper bitcoin wallet, while he was working at Morgan Stanley, where he worked for almost ten years. Most recently, he managed the bank’s private wealth business team of futures specialists.

He said that he was glad of finding a home in space after two years of working and  traveling for mining, bitcoin conferences and managing a paper wallet firm. (Mining is the term used to refer to the use of sophisticated software for solving mathematical problems in exchange for a bitcoin, a kind of virtual currency, requiring no intermediary for web transactions.

He is one of the living examples of bitcoin companies getting skilled talents from the Wall Street. These companies are called Bitcoin 2.0, as they’re finding ways of using bitcoin technology referred as blockchain beyond its main purpose.

A significant innovation—it is how the Bank of England called this latest technology, according to a report last fall. Meanwhile, the genius and business-minded in the Silicon Valley and the Wall Street have started finding ways of repurposing.

Filed Under: Business, Technology

Fun Science Nights Break the Ice for Serious Scientists in DC

April 4, 2015 By Troy G. Bennett

Fun Science Nights Break the Ice for Serious Scientists in DCOn Washington DC’s poetry night, the joke  as to which of the white coats would take the stage” became the talk of the night. It was delivered by a stand-up act, Robert Mac. The event was attended by   him, science aficionados and scientists themselves at the District Bier Baron Tavern, some Fridays ago. Mac delivered it while he was performing during the Science Comedy Night, which was produced and presented by the DC Science Comedy. When the event’s organizer told Mac that he was more likely to be killed by bees, hornets and wasps than sharks, he said not because he was in the water.

On April 20, the scientists, will, again, be in spotlight, as another group of socializing scientists, DC Science Café, holds  the “Versed in Science (and Math): An Evening of Poetry” (Busboys and Poets, 5th and K Streets, NW). The said event highlights Rick Mullin, who is an editor at the “Chemical and Engineering News” and also the author of a sonnet’s book that is based on the travels and adventures of Charles Darwin. It also features blogger, poet and mathematician, JoAnne Growney. Aside from prominent figures, the event will also open the microphone for poets and scientists from the audience.

Filed Under: Science

Lack of Social Trust, Evident to People Laid Off

April 4, 2015 By Troy G. Bennett

Lack of Social Trust, Evident to People Laid Off 2What is the cost of recession? This is the study that James Laurence, a research fellow and sociologist at the University of Manchester is looking into.  He studied it using a sample of 7,000 people in the United Kingdom in order to investigate the psychological effects of being laid off from a job.

Based on the question on what the respondents would say if most people could be trusted or if they would be too careful dealing with these people. Their answers revealed that most people can’t be trusted; others answers they couldn’t be too careful; and the rests said it would vary.  The respondents were asked the same question when they were 33, and then after 17 years, when they are 50.

Laurence discovered that the people who had been laid off were at 4.5 percent less likely to trust people even after 17 years. This rate was even higher for those who placed a huge value on their career and jobs, at seven percent. He, therefore, concluded that responses are more likely to be based on someone’s work centrality.  Their social trust is more dependent on how they value work.

Well, so, do you agree? Would your judgment on people in terms on how you trust them influenced by being laid off?

Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Social Trust

Zooming Contact Lens Unveiled in Geneva

March 29, 2015 By Troy G. Bennett

Zooming Contact Lens UnveiledScientists in Geneva have recently introduced a new line of futuristic contact lenses that allow one to switch between magnified focus to normal field view with a number of winks and eye gestures.

The first version, previously released in 2013 has been improved upon to service and to better provide clear eyesight to those who have low vision and macular degeneration. The new model holds a lot of promise to its new users as it integrates new and better features.

The contact lens, made by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland works with a rigid but breathable contact lens in partner with smart glasses that is operated with winks and is programmed to ignore the blinks. This advanced contraption couples the use of technological and biological advancement.

This will be uncovered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Jose, California.

Let’s stay tuned for more of this story only here.

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