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Decreases in global #beer supply due to extreme drought and heat | Nature Plants
▻https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-018-0263-1
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On avait déjà eu ça :
World wine production just hit a 56-year low. That’s not even the worst part.
Caitlin Dewey, Washington Post, le 27 octobre 2017
►https://seenthis.net/messages/640409Global wine production plummeted to an almost six-decade low this year — and that isn’t even the worst news.
Thanks to the ravages of climate change, experts say that these sorts of bad harvests, once considered historic, will likely grow more common in the future.
This week, the International Organization of Vine and Wine, a Paris-based scientific and technical group, announced that production would fall by roughly 3 billion bottles this year, a drop of more than 8 percent from 2016 and the lowest level seen since 1961. The losses were driven by a trio of extreme weather events in Italy, France and Spain; the most-affected regions include those that produce Bordeaux, Rioja and Chianti.
Autre lien sur le WaPo est en paywall :
▻https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/24/global-wine-production-predicted-to-slump-to-50-year-lowSi seulement ça pouvait permettre une prise de conscience... On ne va même pas pouvoir se bourrer la gueule pendant la fin du monde !
On l’ajoute à la troisième compilation :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/680147#effondrement #collapsologie #catastrophe #fin_du_monde #it_has_begun #Anthropocène #capitalocène
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Article de vulgarisation :
Study : Decreases in Global Beer Supply Due to Extreme Drought, Heat
KTVN, le 15 octobre 2018
▻http://www.ktvn.com/story/39287703/study-decreases-in-global-beer-supply-due-to-extreme-drought-heatA new study says climate change may leave people crying in their costlier beer.
The international study says bouts of extreme heat waves and drought will cut production of barley, a key ingredient of beer.
When that happens, beer prices on average could double. In countries like Ireland, prices could triple.
Previous studies have detailed how chocolate, coffee and wine will be made scarcer and more expensive because of human-caused climate change.
Steve Davis of the University of California, Irvine, says the beer research was partly done to drive home the not-that-palatable message that climate change is messing with all sorts of aspects of our daily lives.
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Malaysian government using fake news law to crush freedom of speech - CNET
▻https://www.cnet.com/news/malaysian-government-passing-fake-news-lawsThe bill makes not only creating fake news illegal, but also sharing it. A Malaysian citizen could be punished, then, for simply retweeting fake news. If found guilty, Malaysians can be sentenced to prison for up to six years and fined up to 500,000 Malaysian ringgit (which roughly converts to $130,000). Plus, it’s not a domestic law — it applies to those outside the country who are responsible for fake news.
“This legislation is problematic on so many different levels,” David Kaye, clinical professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, said to CNET. “The definition of fake news is so broad it seems like the government could decide anything could be fake news. On top of that, it has these extraordinarily harsh penalties.”
Case study: A scandal erupted in 2015 around Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak when the Wall Street Journal reported that around $700 million in funds were transferred from a state-owned company to his personal bank accounts. Over 10 sites were taken down for reporting on this, according to EFF.
With the new fake news law, journalists who wrote those stories and citizens who shared them online could face legal punishment and even jail time. That includes international journalists.
“[The new law] applies to non-Malaysian citizens internationally if ’fake news’ published overseas involves Malaysian citizens,” said a Khairil Yusof, team coordinator at Sinar Project, an organization that defends digital rights of citizens in Malaysia. “For example the WSJ journalists that broke the story [that alleged Prime Minister Razak’s corruption] face the possibility of being jailed and fined when visiting Malaysia.”
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Cultural Anthropologist Mimi Ito on Connected Learning, Children, and Digital Media - YouTube
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuV7zcXigAIAjoutée le 4 août 2011
Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist and expert in the field of digital media and learning, focusing on children and youth’s changing relationships to media and communications. She recently completed the Digital Youth Project, a landmark study supported by the MacArthur Foundation of the ways youth use new media. In September 2010, she was appointed as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning at UC Irvine.
Ito emphasizes the need to put aside prejudices against new media in order to harness their potential as learning tools: “I think there’s a more general perception in the culture around new media [...] that it is inherently a space that is hostile to learning. And that’s a perception that I think we really need to work against.” (4:46) “We know that the learning outside of school matters tremendously for the learning in school. [...] The question is: how can we be more active about linking those two together?” she adds. (5:33)
Mimi Ito is a Professor in Residence at the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and serves as Research Director of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub in the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute. To find out more about the Connected Learning focus of the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, please visit ▻http://connectedlearning.tv/what-is-c....
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Minority Groups Lose When They Collaborate with Power - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/minority-groups-lose-when-they-collaborate-with-powerCailin O’Connor—a philosopher, scientist, and mathematician—may not enjoy tense situations, but they fascinate her. Last year, in a Huffington Post article titled “Game Theory and The Walking Dead,” she wrote that the zombie show’s “plot lines are rich with strategic tension.” She goes on to analyze three of what she calls “the most strategically compelling scenes,” and seems to relish in the fact that the characters—since they so often die—aren’t great game theorists. (Game theory, as she sometimes has to remind her students at the University of California, Irvine, isn’t really about games, but about predicting rational behavior.) Recently, she’s brought this sort of scrutiny on the behavior of her fellow academics. In a recent paper, she analyzes how they strategically cooperate and bargain at a (...)
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#théorie_des_jeux #minorités #recherche #femmes #effacement #effet_matilda #invisibilisation_des_femmes #historicisation #femmes #domination_masculine #discrimination #sexisme
(…) “The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship,” where they looked across academic collaboration and showed that in a lot of disciplines women tend not to have the most prestigious author positions. They tend not to be first and last author, which requires some explaining.
There’s another set of empirical results showing that in a number of disciplines, women and sometimes people of color tend to collaborate less often, are less likely to be on collaborative papers, and when they do collaborate, are more likely to collaborate with their in-group. Women are more likely to collaborate with other women.
Part of the question I wanted to ask is, “Is there some norm developing where women are getting less and less credit, or possibly doing more work on academic papers, and is that maybe dis-incentivizing them from collaborating?”
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In our model, resources translate directly into power again. In a new scenario, as norms of bargaining emerge, they’re going to get more and more resources. It’s not just that inequity emerges easily, it’s that once it’s there, it’s self-perpetuating. You see social dynamical factors kind of pushing to more and more inequity. That’s another aspect of this. We can’t just fix it, and then it’s over. But, rather, whenever we have social groups, inequity emerges, and then it can perpetuate itself and get worse.
Dr. Kiki Sanford holds a Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology from U.C. Davis, and is a specialist in learning and memory. She is also the founder and host of the radio show This Week in Science.
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Does a Cartoon Penguin Make Math Education Great Again? - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/does-a-cartoon-penguin-make-math-education-great-againMatthew Peterson is a pretty inspirational guy. As a dyslexic child he found math class difficult, so as an adult he resolved to totally change the way math is taught. After completing his studies in biology, electrical engineering, and Chinese language and literature at the University of California, Irvine, Peterson co-founded the nonprofit MIND Research Institute and set about developing “Spatial Temporal (ST) Math,” a computer game-based method of teaching that doesn’t rely on language as a medium. Instead it uses spatial-temporal reasoning—the ability to move stuff around in your mind and work out how it fits together. Proponents point to recent findings in neuroscience and education research—showing that early music training can enhance spatial-temporal reasoning, for example—as (...)
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Ringing in the ears plagues nearly one in 10 U.S. adults - Business Insider
▻http://www.businessinsider.com/r-ringing-in-the-ears-plagues-nearly-one-in-10-us-adults-2016-7About 10 percent of U.S. adults have a sensation of ringing in their ears, and the noise in their daily lives may be to blame, according to a new study.
People who experience the annoying condition, known as tinnitus, are not alone, said researcher Dr. Harrison Lin from the University of California, Irvine.
Several studies “point to noise exposure as a probable contributor to tinnitus,” he told Reuters Health.
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About 27 percent of tinnitus sufferers in the study reported having the condition for more than 15 years. More than a third of respondents reported nearly constant symptoms.About 7 percent said their tinnitus symptoms were big or very big problems, while about 42 percent said they were small problems.
People exposed to loud noises at work or during recreational activities were more likely to have tinnitus, researchers found.
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Martian Colonists Could Be Genetically Engineered for Democracy - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/martian-colonists-could-be-genetically-engineered-for-democracyIt sounds like science fiction: A citizenry genetically engineered to be democratic. It’s not implausible. Last month, the National Academy of Sciences issued a report touting the promise of a biological engineering technique called gene drive—particularly for dealing with public health problems such as the Zika virus, malaria, and dengue fever. Last year, Anthony James, a biologist at the University of California, Irvine, led a team that used the gene drive to genetically fashion mosquitos with an immune system that inhibits the spread of the malaria-causing parasite. “Quite a few people,” he told STAT, “are trying to develop a gene drive for population-suppression of Aedes”—Aedes aegypti, the mosquito carrying the Zika virus. But officials at the National Academy Sciences say it’s best to (...)
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The collaboration curse
▻http://www.economist.com/news/business/21688872-fashion-making-employees-collaborate-has-gone-too-far-collaboratA growing body of academic evidence demonstrates just how serious the problem is. Gloria Mark of the University of California, Irvine, discovered that interruptions, even short ones, increase the total time required to complete a task by a significant amount. A succession of studies have shown that multitasking reduces the quality of work as well as dragging it out. Sophie Leroy, formerly of the University of Minnesota (now at the University of Washington Bothell) has added an interesting twist to this argument: jumping rapidly from one task to another also reduces efficiency because of something she calls “attention residue”. The mind continues to think about the old task even as it jumps to a new one.
A second objection is that, whereas managers may notice the benefits of collaboration, they fail to measure its costs. Rob Cross and Peter Gray of the University of Virginia’s business school estimate that knowledge workers spend 70-85% of their time attending meetings (virtual or face-to-face), dealing with e-mail, talking on the phone or otherwise dealing with an avalanche of requests for input or advice. Many employees are spending so much time interacting that they have to do much of their work when they get home at night. Tom Cochran, a former chief technology officer of Atlantic Media, calculated that the midsized firm was spending more than $1m a year on processing e-mails, with each one costing on average around 95 cents in labour costs. “A free and frictionless method of communication,” he notes, has “soft costs equivalent to procuring a small company Learjet.”
Mark Bolino of the University of Oklahoma points to a hidden cost of collaboration. Some employees are such enthusiastic collaborators that they are asked to weigh in on every issue. But it does not take long for top collaborators to become bottlenecks: nothing happens until they have had their say—and they have their say on lots of subjects that are outside their competence.
The biggest problem with collaboration is that it makes what Mr Newport calls “deep work” difficult, if not impossible. Deep work is the killer app of the knowledge economy: it is only by concentrating intensely that you can master a difficult discipline or solve a demanding problem. Many of the most productive knowledge workers go out of their way to avoid meetings and unplug electronic distractions. Peter Drucker, a management thinker, argued that you can do real work or go to meetings but you cannot do both. Jonathan Franzen, an author, unplugs from the internet when he is writing. Donald Knuth, a computer scientist, refuses to use e-mail on the ground that his job is to be “on the bottom of things” rather than “on top of things”. Richard Feynman, a legendary physicist, extolled the virtues of “active irresponsibility” when it came to taking part in academic meetings.
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#attention_résiduelle #digital_labor
The more junior the knowledge worker is, the more likely he is to spend his time doing things that are easy to measure rather than engaging in more demanding but nebulous work.
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SOS ! On se demande encore si on peut corréler le QI avec des scan du cerveau ! Et on fait des tests manifestement publiables dans Nature...
°°Scientists can now predict how intelligent you are with a brain scan - but could the technology be misused?°°
If a brain scan could be used to check your intelligence, could that information one day be used against you?▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-can-now-predict-how-intelligent-you-are-with-a-brain-scan-
"As it says in the report, “functional connectivity profiles can be used to preduct the fundamental cognitive trait of fluid intelligence in subjects.”"
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“Todd Constable, one of the authors of the study, told WIRED magazine that one day in the future, employers could scan job applicants’ brains to see whether they would be suited for the position.
And Richard Haier, an intelligence researcher at the University of California, Irvine, said that schools could scan students’ brains to see what kind of education would suit them, or prisons could scan inmates to see whether they were prone to violence or addiction.”
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Social networks of #mobile #money in #Kenya
▻http://www.experientia.com/blog/social-networks-of-mobile-money-in-kenyaSibel Kusimba, Harpieth Chaggar, Elizabeth Gross, & Gabriel Kunyu
Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion
University of California, IrvineWith mobile money technologies, people use mobile phones to send money to friends and relatives, connect to bank accounts, and make payments. This research examines the role of mobile money in Kenyans’ social and economic networks. Research reported was conducted in Bungoma and Trans-Nzoia Counties in Kenya, and among Kenyans living in Chicago, Illinois in the summer of 2012.
#m-pesa signalé par @confluences_
