Temple Mount
King David’s Descendents Making Case to Reclaim Ownership of Temple Mount breakingisraelnews
While their claim is legally sound and verifiable, it faces significant political hurdles. One of the suit’s beneficiaries, who claims descent from the Davidic Dynasty, is ready for the legal battle but cautiously pragmatic.
Archeology
3,000-year-old thread found in UK cbsnews
The fragile fiber objects appeared during the excavation of a Bronze Age village near what is now Petersborough, in eastern England. The location, known as Must Farm mustfarm, is thought to have been abandoned suddenly after a fire decimated the settlement thousands of years ago. Many everyday objects were left behind, and are now being discovered and brought to light for the first time.
Environmental
The drought no one is talking about in the southeastern United States washingtonpost
Farmers in northern Georgia, northeast Alabama, southeast Tennessee, western North Carolina and northwestern South Carolina are desperate for rain as harvest time nears. Combined with above average heat this summer, the corn crop in numerous counties has already been wiped out.
Research
Researchers Debut Programmable Quantum Computer fortune v
UMD’s Joint Quantum Institute jqi.umd.edu describes it as the first re-programmable quantum computer ever, and a major advance over previous demonstrations of quantum computing, which have generally been static devices designed to run only one type of operation.
Physics
Particles that Travel Faster than the Speed of Light interestingengineering v
Since first described as the universal limit, physicists have since discovered special entities that can reach superluminal (faster than light) speeds which still abide by the universal rules set by special relativity.
Robots
How this high school dropout built a 'Robot Wars' fighting machine in his bedroom businessinsider
His creation is so dangerous, it is one of the reasons the show’s producers have had to encase the battle arena in bulletproof glass to protect the studio audience.
AI
Taking Aim at Retail’s $40B Annual Non-Scanning Losses enterprisetech
Everseen everseen, of Cork, Ireland, is emerging from stealth mode after seven years of development with a cloud-based system combining AI, deep learning and analysis of video from in-store cameras that the company says notifies retail store staff of non-scanned items within three seconds. In pilot projects at five of the world’s 10 largest retail companies in the world – all of them grocery chains, four of them in Europe and one of them in the U.S. – Everseen claims a 90 percent success rate detecting items that have not been scanned.
Go to the company website (see link in commenst) for a kinda creepy promotional video of AI, ever watching...
Society
If pedophilia is a sexual orientation, now what? dennyburk
In [his recent] book, Kershnar questions whether pedophilia should be considered a mental disorder and/or morally wrong. His argument is that it can only be considered a mental disorder if and only if two conditions are met: (1) if the condition causes harm and (2) if the harm results from a dysfunction in a mental mechanism. Kershnar contends that pedophilia is a “natural function” with an “evolutionary explanation.” Thus it does not meet the second criterion. He further argues that pedophilia doesn’t harm the pedophile and that it does not necessarily harm a “willing” child. So pedophilia doesn’t clearly violate the first criterion either (pp. xviii-xix).
Religious Freedom
Medieval festival shuns [Canadian] Christian preacher’s street church lifesitenews
Faire coordinator Barbara Matson set the tone for the event when she rejected a request from Art Pawlowski, controversial pastor of Calgary’s Street Church streetchurch.ca, in an e-mail on May 31. “It is the Brooks Medieval Faire Society's decision that you are not welcome to vend at our Faire.”
I don't know anything about Street Church other than a quick look through their site. Use discernment :)
Crazy Tech
You can now print full color 3D holograms with regular inkjet printers 3ders.org
This is especially remarkable because the holographic effect is usually only created with special lenses or with materials that are placed on top of the photo. But Lumii lumiidisplay does so with nothing else than an inkjet printer and a custom algorithm. The resulting ‘light field prints’ even future true 3D parallax movement in all directions...meaning you can view a 3D image from every single angle.
And I thought holograms were magical before...
War
Japan orders military to be ready for North Korea missile launch at any time reuters
Up to now, Japan has issued temporary orders when it had indications of an imminent North Korean missile launch that it has canceled after a projectile had been launched.
Russia-Iran
Leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia focus on boosting trade washingtonpost
The Kremlin also says the summit will focus on the transport corridor, particularly construction of a railroad between Iran and Azerbaijan.
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