Why do dogs look sad?

Why do dogs look sad?

A paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that dogs’ faces are structured for complex expression in a way that wolves’ aren’t, thanks to a special pair of muscles framing their eyes. For the study, a team at the University of Portsmouth’s Dog Cognition Centre looked at two muscles that work together to widen and open a dog’s eyes, causing them to appear bigger, droopier, and objectively cuter. The retractor anguli oculi lateralis muscle and the levator anguli oculi medialis muscle (mercifully known as RAOL and LAOM) form two short, straight lines, which connect the ring of muscle around a dog’s eye to either end of the brow above.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

JExcel – JavaScript spreadsheet web component – Open source

JExcel – JavaScript spreadsheet web component – Open source

jExcel is a lightweight vanilla javascript plugin to create amazing web-based interactive tables and spreadsheets compatible with Excel or any other spreadsheet software. It was created to be an easy javascript data input tool for users and it was created inspired on the Handsontable and the Microsoft Excel.This software is free and was created to be a light alternative to Handsontable javascript spreadsheet. You can manipulate the jExcel javascript spreadsheet data with JSON, CSV or simple arrays, so it will be easy to integrate jExcel to any of your applications.

Source: bossanova.uk

Georgia Guidestones (2010)

Georgia Guidestones (2010)

They carry a tablet in front proclaiming, “Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason.” They are written in eight different languages, English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Russian, and among other commandments preach to:

– Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. However, if the past thirty years are any indication, we may never know who built them besides what is engraved on the guidestones itself: “Sponsors: A Small Group of Americans Who Seek The Age Of Reason”

Source: www.atlasobscura.com

People care more about privacy than they think

People care more about privacy than they think

Still, the internet is held together with duct tape, and if you’re serious about security, it’s good to know the risks up front. Its end-to-end encryption offers a reliable amount of security that no third parties will be listening in (but again, it’s worth repeating that you can never control who might be in the other room on the other end of the device). For exchanging messages back and forth, end-to-end encrypted chat apps offer protection from third parties but can’t protect you from a partner who might screenshot the content.

Source: www.nytimes.com

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

Within the movement it commonly refers to individuals, though the personal characteristics and activities of those to whom it is directed may differ widely: An individual, as an individual can never be an elitist, because the only proper application of the term “elite” is to groups. Because people are friends, because they usually share the same values and orientations, because they talk to each other socially and consult with each other when common decisions have to be made, the people involved in these networks have more power in the group than those who don’t. If there are two or more such networks of friends, they may compete for power within the group, thus forming factions, or one may deliberately opt out of the competition, leaving the other as the elite.

Source: www.jofreeman.com

Distrotest: A selection of operating systems to test online

Distrotest: A selection of operating systems to test online

We are working to resolve the problem. Click here to get more information During high usage, the website can be temporarily offline.We are working to resolve the problem. On our website you will find a selection of operating systems,which you can test online without installation in the simplest way.There are no restrictions here:You can use all functions of the system,Uninstall and install software, test installed programs andeven delete or format the hard disk or system files…Here is a overview of all installed and working operating systems:

Source: distrotest.net

WireGuard for Windows Pre-Alpha Is Available

WireGuard for Windows Pre-Alpha Is Available

WireGuard requires Linux ≥3.10, with the following configuration options, which are likely already configured in your kernel, especially if you’re installing via distribution packages, above. For enabling the above options, select these items in :

When building as an out of tree module, it is probable that one needs set as well. Rather than building as an external module, if you would like to build WireGuard as a module or as built-in, directly from within the kernel tree, you may use the script which creates a patch for adding WireGuard directly to the tree or the script which links the WireGuard source directory into the kernel tree:

Then you will be able to configure these options directly:

These are selectable easily via , if and are also selected:

Source: www.wireguard.com

Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market forever

Mozilla and Firefox could be about to change the VPN and privacy market forever

News that Mozilla could release a suite of privacy focused tools and services to complement its popular Firefox browser sent tongues wagging across the security and privacy industry. Harold Li, VP at , welcomed the news, saying that ExpressVPN “is pleased to call Mozilla a partner in offering VPN services across many markets through Firefox Lite, and glad to see that they share our view that VPNs are an essential online privacy and security tool.” “Mozilla has a lot of marketing and upsell opportunities as it has a large user base,” agreed Kaz Par, CEO of VPN provider, .

Source: www.techradar.com

Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients

Robocalls are overwhelming hospitals and patients

Administrators at other hospitals, cancer centers and medical research organizations around the country share Tufts’s robocall concerns. [The FCC allows ATT, Verizon and other carriers to block more suspected robocalls]
“These calls to health-care institutions and patients are extremely dangerous to the public health and patient privacy,” said Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (N.J.), the Democratic chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, who has put forward legislation to try to clamp down on robocalls. As thousands of robocalls bombarded Tufts Medical Center last year, it had its own share of problems with Windstream, its telecom carrier.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind? (2015)

Wouldn’t you like to know what’s going on in my mind? (2015)

Matthew argues that the only plausible repositories for quantum information in the brain are the Phosphorus-31 nuclear spins in phosphate ions. If the phosphate molecules remain unbound, this entanglement will decay in about a second, but it is a different story if the phosphate ions group together quickly enough into Posner clusters, allowing the entanglement to survive for a much longer time. The melting rate depends on the spin state of the six P-31 nuclei within the cluster, so that entanglement between clusters in different cells may induce nonlocal correlations among different neurons, which could be quite complex if entanglement is widely distributed.

Source: quantumfrontiers.com