Why do so many politicians get into trouble? – Whether it’s Argentinean affairs and Ponzi schemes or personal battles with obesity and drug addiction, people regularly give in to greed, lust and self-destructivebehaviors. This is partly because we believe we have more self control than we actually have.
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Over the years, we’ve written many articles about communities all over the world where people are being driven crazy by mysterious humming noises. Now there may be a new cause for this problem: Wind farms.
In the August 2nd edition of the Independent, Margareta Pagano reveals that living too close to the low frequency hum give off by wind turbines can cause heart disease, tinnitus, vertigo, panic attacks, migraines and sleep deprivation. She quotes US pediatrician Nina Pierpont as saying, “It has been gospel among acousticians for years that if a person can’t hear a sound, it’s too weak for it to be detected or registered by any other part of the body. But this is no longer true. Humans can hear through the [ear] bones.”
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The secret is out: US scientists monitoring shrinking glaciers in Washington and Alaska are warning that a major glacier meltdown is under way. Glaciers worldwide are melting faster than anyone had predicted they would, which will lead to rapidly rising ocean levels along the coasts. Major cities may drown, and since this news is so sudden and unexpected, many of them will be caught unawares.
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If we use robots in the future, we have to make sure they behave. Scientists are now enmeshed in philosophical discussions about this.
When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the “Three Laws of Responsible Robotics,” he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers to start creating robots. They have a more realistic attitude about the machines they are creating, so they have rewritten robot “laws.”
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