Day's Headlines: Boy Guides; Polygamy Unheard; TPP Down; The Gospel Preserved; Missile Accident; F25 AI; Hard Mining; Bendable Screens; and Memory Block

Monday, January 23, 2017

Boy Guides; Polygamy Unheard; TPP Down; The Gospel Preserved; Missile Accident; F25 AI; Hard Mining; Bendable Screens; and Memory Block

Society

Boys who think they are girls allowed to join [UK] Guides for first time telegraph.co.uk

Adult men who also identify their gender as female could become leaders too under radical new proposals to the traditional single-sex policy of girlguiding girlguiding.org.uk.

U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear ‘Sister Wives’ polygamy case fox13now

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes' office had no comment Monday. Polygamists that FOX 13 spoke with were disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision, but vowed to push the Utah State Legislature for decriminalization.

Economy

Trump signs executive order to formally withdraw the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal cnbc v

Fulfilling a campaign pledge to end American involvement in the 2015 pact, Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office pulling the United States from the 12-nation TPP.

Reformation

The Reformation Rescued the Gospel thegospelcoalition.org

No doctrinal dispute has ever been contested more fiercely or with such long-term consequences as the one over justification.

Military

No.10 admits Theresa May did know about nuclear test where missile 'veered towards America' independent.co.uk

Her spokeswoman described repeated questions about allegations that the unarmed missile went astray as “minutiae and specifics”.

Also see British nuclear missile flies in wrong direction to the United States in failed test cnbc

A Big Upgrade to the F-22 & F-35 Stealth Fighters Is in the Works (As in Artificial Intelligence) nationalinterest.org

F-35s, F-22s and other fighter jets will soon use improved “artificial intelligence” to control nearby drone “wingmen” able to carry weapons, test enemy air defenses or perform intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions in high risk areas, senior Air Force officials said.

Space

Asteroid Mining Sounds Hard, Right? You Don’t Know the Half of It wired

The commercial space industry pushes a particular brand of optimism. Its urge to inspire manifests as soaring soundtracks to three-minute mission-promo videos, press releases with words like “humanity,” and slick graphics of spacecraft that don’t exist yet but could any day now. In the particular case of asteroid mining, business leaders are selling a future in which materials plucked from space rocks make up for Earth’s shortfalls and support a thriving civilization. Everyone is rich, all are happy, and no one wants for anything. O pioneers! We are them!

Research

Jellyfish and coral unlock the secret to eco-friendly, 3D printed LED screens 3dprintingindustry t

Research at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) fau.eu in Germany is using 3D printing to embed glowing proteins into LED screens.

Brain’s connections which keep related memories distinct from each other, identified in new study bristol.ac.uk

The team found that one pathway from the hippocampus controlled the ‘temporal’ aspects of the memory such as those which enable a subject to remember when they had encountered an object, while a separate pathway enabled subjects to remember an object’s location.

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