[Amazing] Link25 (196) – The Harambe and Cincinnati Zoo Edition
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For those of you that are new around here, every weekend we bring you 25 of the week’s best links, articles, images, and videos from all over the web in a list we refer to as “Link25″. This week, you’ll find everything from groundbreaking Ferraris to an insightful perspective of the the Cincinnati Zoo and Harambe situation, so get ready because this is Link25 (196) – The Harambe and Cincinnati Zoo Edition.
Last week, Warner Bros. issued a DMCA takedown notice to the video streaming website Vimeo. The notice concerned a pretty standard list of illegally uploaded files from media properties Warner owns the copyright to — including episodes of Friends and Pretty Little Liars, as well as two uploads featuring footage from the Ridley Scott movie Blade Runner.
Just a routine example of copyright infringement, right? Not exactly. Warner Bros. had just made a fascinating mistake. Some of the Blade Runner footage — which Warner has since reinstated — wasn’t actually Blade Runner footage. Or, rather, it was, but not in any form the world had ever seen.
Instead, it was part of a unique machine-learned encoding project, one that had attempted to reconstruct the classic Philip K. Dick android fable from (click on the title to read the full article)
Over the Memorial Day weekend, a four year-old boy climbed over a barrier and fell into a gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo. The episode ended with Harambe, a male lowland gorilla, shot dead by the zoo’s dangerous animal response team. Harambe was part of the zoo’s captive breeding program for the critically-endangered Western lowland gorilla. (Click on the title to read the full article).
King Tutankhamun, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, was entombed with a dagger made from metal mined from a meteorite, according to a new scientific study.
The iron dagger was discovered within Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus, whose famous unearthing in Luxor in 1922 prompted a wave of global interest in the history and grandeur of one of the world’s oldest civilizations. The young king died at age 19 in the 14th century B.C. (Click on the title to read the full article).
On the Fourth of July last year, pilot David Quinones flew a camera drone in Coney Island, Brooklyn while the famous Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating contest was going on.
His drone caught the attention of the New York Police Department, which tossed him in jail for five hours.
Three months later, he became the first and so far only person to have his manned aircraft license suspended by the Federal Aviation Administration for flying a drone.
“I was right there on the beach over private property—at the same time, they had their hot dog thing going on a block or two away,” Quinones, a cofounder of the New York City-based aerial photography company SkyCamUSA, told me. “I did not fly over their hot dog thing or anywhere near it. But because it was (Click on the title to read the full article).
IT’S one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same: We marry the wrong person.
Partly, it’s because we have a bewildering array of problems that emerge when we try to get close to others. We seem normal only to those who don’t know us very well. In a wiser, more self-aware society than our own, a standard question on any early dinner date would be: “And how are you crazy?”
Perhaps we have a latent tendency to get furious when someone disagrees with us or can relax only when we are working; perhaps we’re tricky about intimacy after sex or clam up in response to humiliation. Nobody’s perfect. The problem is that before marriage, we (click on the title to read the full article).
Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the National Institutes of Health, Rutgers University- New Brunswick and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have characterized a new CRISPR system that targets RNA, rather than DNA.
The new approach has the potential to open a powerful avenue in cellular manipulation. Whereas DNA editing makes permanent changes to the genome of a cell, the CRISPR-based RNA-targeting approach may (click on the title to read the full article).
The order came from the Sultan of Brunei’s nephew. It was 1994, and Prince Abdul Hakeem, then 20 years old, had inherited two things: access to a $40 billion fortune, and his family’s penchant for spending it.
In the ‘80s and ‘90s, the monarchs of this tiny, oil-rich nation in the South China Sea bankrolled a fleet of special custom vehicles, ordering the most coveted cars in the world by the half-dozen or more. Their notorious collection — located in nondescript concrete garages, surrounded by razor wire, and patrolled by armed Nepalese soldiers known as (click on the title to read the full article).
Deadly flooding has inundated parts of northern Europe this week, prompting the closure of roads, businesses and museums and leaving people wondering when the dirty water will finally recede.
The situation is particularly bad along the Seine River in Paris, where a French river-monitoring group has issued an orange alert for river flooding. This means large river overflow is possible, which could have a significant impact on surrounding areas and the safety of nearby residents.
The Seine is expected to crest around 21 feet on Friday afternoon — the highest crest since 1955, the BBC reports. Water levels along the Loing, a tributary of the Seine, have already toppled record crests from the major flood event in 1910. (Click on the title to read the full article).
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Just a routine example of copyright infringement, right? Not exactly. Warner Bros. had just made a fascinating mistake. Some of the Blade Runner footage — which Warner has since reinstated — wasn’t actually Blade Runner footage. Or, rather, it was, but not in any form the world had ever seen.
Instead, it was part of a unique machine-learned encoding project, one that had attempted to reconstruct the classic Philip K. Dick android fable from (click on the title to read the full article)
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Well played ferret, well played.
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The iron dagger was discovered within Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus, whose famous unearthing in Luxor in 1922 prompted a wave of global interest in the history and grandeur of one of the world’s oldest civilizations. The young king died at age 19 in the 14th century B.C. (Click on the title to read the full article).
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His drone caught the attention of the New York Police Department, which tossed him in jail for five hours.
Three months later, he became the first and so far only person to have his manned aircraft license suspended by the Federal Aviation Administration for flying a drone.
“I was right there on the beach over private property—at the same time, they had their hot dog thing going on a block or two away,” Quinones, a cofounder of the New York City-based aerial photography company SkyCamUSA, told me. “I did not fly over their hot dog thing or anywhere near it. But because it was (Click on the title to read the full article).
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Partly, it’s because we have a bewildering array of problems that emerge when we try to get close to others. We seem normal only to those who don’t know us very well. In a wiser, more self-aware society than our own, a standard question on any early dinner date would be: “And how are you crazy?”
Perhaps we have a latent tendency to get furious when someone disagrees with us or can relax only when we are working; perhaps we’re tricky about intimacy after sex or clam up in response to humiliation. Nobody’s perfect. The problem is that before marriage, we (click on the title to read the full article).
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How to get a six pack
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The new approach has the potential to open a powerful avenue in cellular manipulation. Whereas DNA editing makes permanent changes to the genome of a cell, the CRISPR-based RNA-targeting approach may (click on the title to read the full article).
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In the ‘80s and ‘90s, the monarchs of this tiny, oil-rich nation in the South China Sea bankrolled a fleet of special custom vehicles, ordering the most coveted cars in the world by the half-dozen or more. Their notorious collection — located in nondescript concrete garages, surrounded by razor wire, and patrolled by armed Nepalese soldiers known as (click on the title to read the full article).
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Floods suck...but this...this is awesome.
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The situation is particularly bad along the Seine River in Paris, where a French river-monitoring group has issued an orange alert for river flooding. This means large river overflow is possible, which could have a significant impact on surrounding areas and the safety of nearby residents.
The Seine is expected to crest around 21 feet on Friday afternoon — the highest crest since 1955, the BBC reports. Water levels along the Loing, a tributary of the Seine, have already toppled record crests from the major flood event in 1910. (Click on the title to read the full article).
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Until next week.
