Day's Headlines: Blocked MS Law Remains; Preventing US $ to Israeli; The Social Third Temple; Chinese Satellite; Hypersonic Hybrid; Kashmir Can't Hear You Now; Mousy Images; Parasitic Hobby; Firefighter's Angel; and Sushi-Bot

Saturday, August 13, 2016

Blocked MS Law Remains; Preventing US $ to Israeli; The Social Third Temple; Chinese Satellite; Hypersonic Hybrid; Kashmir Can't Hear You Now; Mousy Images; Parasitic Hobby; Firefighter's Angel; and Sushi-Bot

Society

[Mississippi] ‘Religious freedom law’ will remain blocked during appeal, court rules sunherald

HB 1523 billstatus.ls.state.ms.us, passed by the Legislature and signed by Bryant, specifically protected three beliefs: Marriage is only between a man and a woman; sexual relations should take place only inside marriage; and a person’s “immutable biological sex” is determined at birth.

Israel

Lawsuit claims US aid to Israel violates nuclear pact timesofisrael

Grant Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, who filed the lawsuit Monday with a Washington DC court, said the United States has given Israel an estimated $234 billion in foreign aid since Congress in 1976 passed the International Security Assistance and Arms Export Control Act, with its stipulation regarding countries that did not sign the NPT, according to Courthouse News.

The third Jewish Temple is coming to your Facebook feed jta.org

“It’s time to build,” reads the tagline of the Temple Institute’s templeinstitute.org latest YouTube video. The phrase encapsulates the group’s controversial mission to rally Jews to reconstruct the temple that was the heart of their religion until its destruction 2,000 years ago.

China

China says new satellite will help safeguard interests at sea reuters

The "Gaofen 3" satellite that was launched on Wednesday has a radar system that captures images from space with a resolution down to 1 meter (3 feet) and can operate in all weathers, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence told the newspaper.

China's Hybrid Spaceplane Could Reset the 21st Century Space Race popsci

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation spacechina is beginning advanced research on a high tech, more efficient successor to the retired Space Shuttle, with hybrid combined cycle engines that can takeoff from an airport's landing strip and fly straight into orbit. The hybrid space plane's combined cycle engines would use turbofan or turbojet engines to takeoff horizontally from a landing strip. Once airborne, the engine then shifts to ramjet propulsion and, as speed increases, adjusts into a scramjet engine with supersonic airflow. At the scramjet stage, the hybrid spaceplane would enter hypersonic flight in 'near space', the part of the atmosphere between 20km to 100km above sea level. Finally, the hybrid spaceplane would use its rocket motors to push out of near space and into orbit.

Censorship

Broadband internet services suspended till Aug 15 in Kashmir hindustantimes

Broadband internet services were suspended on Saturday.across Kashmir, except in some areas housing government offices and residences of officials, while mobile internet services remained suspended in the Valley for the 36th consecutive day.

Research

Scientists believe they may have implanted an image in the mind of a mouse independent.co.uk

The researchers now plan to develop a behavioural study in an attempt to prove that the image – whatever it is – was implanted into the mouse’s brain.

Creatures

Why I'm Fascinated By Parasitic Worms npr.org w!

As a college undergraduate, I fell in love with parasitic worms. I was studying evolutionary biology, and I got caught up in the idea of organisms that made their world out of other organisms. I was stunned by their ornate life cycles, and the complex biology required to get from host to host, and to live successfully inside those hosts, without being wiped out by the hosts' immune system and without wiping the hosts out and ending the free ride (not to mention the free lunch). The world, I realized, is full of worms.

Overlook the evolutionary assumptions :)

AI

A.I. could be a firefighter's 'Guardian Angel' phys.org

Firefighters have only their wits and five senses to rely on inside a burning building. But research developed in part by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory jpl.nasa.gov, Pasadena, California, may change that, introducing artificial intelligence (AI) that could collect data on temperatures, gases and other danger signals and guide a team of first responders safely through the flames.

Robots

This Sushi-Making Robot Is the Future We Deserve gizmodo

Is it time for Jiro [some famous sushi chef] to finally retire? Not quite yet. These robots appear to be simply assembling the sushi components. And wasabi from a tube? Jiro would never stand for that at Sukiyabashi Jiro. But it’s a start, and one day you might have an appliance in your kitchen that makes Michelin three-star sushi, instead of you having to settle for grocery store sushi because you’re too tired to cook.

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