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Friends, a new world is waiting for all of us. It is a world without want, where every need is satisfied by boundless resources. It is a world of friendship, where war does not exist. And when we get there, we'll achieve immortality. I'm not talking about Heaven, Nirvana, or some other religious tenet - I'm talking about the future according to Singularity University. But is it really as close as the Singularity folks say? 
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Evidence persists in the psychological literature that people's bodies sometimes unconsciously "predict" unpredictable future events. These visceral responses don't appear to be the result of sheer chance.
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How Thomson Reuters analyst David Pendlebury makes impressively accurate predictions of who will win.
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Being overly optimistic in life puts us at risk. In addition, people who show cheerful, optimistic personality traits during childhood, have a shorter life expectancy than their more serious counter parts. On the other hand, optimists are more psychologically resilient, have stronger immune systems, and live longer on average than more reality-based opposites. So who’s better off in life; the optimist or the pessimist? And who’s reality comes closest to the truth?
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A group of Japanese scientists have surprised themselves by being able to predict the success or failure of blockbuster movies at the box office using a set of mathematical models.
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Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more. Astronomers no longer have any doubt: Our Milky Way Galaxy will have a head-on collision with Andromeda.
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In a new study, a team of physicists has used concepts from statistical physics to identify some characteristic behaviors of pre-bankrupt stocks that differ significantly from stocks that don't become bankrupt. The approach may eventually help investors forecast stock bankruptcies weeks or months in advance.
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Why we tend to predict rosy times ahead... A new study from the January issue of Psychological Science may explain why we are all so optimistic about what’s to come. The authors report that people tend to remember imagined future scenarios that are happy better than they recall the unhappy ones. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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Along with predicting our future behaviors, brain scans can guess when we’re about to make a cognitive error, mis-processing a math problem because we’re thinking too hard. Like a dashboard widget watching your computer’s RAM, brain wave patterns can be used to detect when the brain is approaching its limits of processing power, according to new research. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Forty years after its initial publication, a study called The Limits to Growth is looking depressingly prescient. Commissioned by an international think tank called the Club of Rome, the 1972 report found that if civilization continued on its path toward increasing consumption, the global economy would collapse by 2030. Population losses would ensue, and things would generally fall apart.
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A University of California, Riverside professor and several other researchers have developed a model that uses data from Twitter to help predict the traded volume and value of a stock the following day. Articles about ECONOMY http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=economy
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The linguist G. K. Zipf discovered that the frequencies of words in a language are distributed according to a power-law. They fall into an L-shaped curve with a tall spine containing a large number of rare words (like deliquesce, kankedort, and apotropaic) and a long tail containing a small number of extremely common ones (like the, be, and of). In any corpus of language, a small number of the most common words account for a large proportion of word tokens. The physicist and psychologist Lewis F. Richardson discovered that the frequencies of wars between 1815 and 1952 are distributed according to a power-law.
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Science, government and private enterprise are asking if they can predict future events by creatively crunching massive amounts of data made available by you, the individual. As people post more and more information online, computers are getting better at extracting and analyzing data to predict crime rates, stock market fluctuations, the spread of disease, political elections, revolutions and more. Professor Johan Bollen, who developed a method of using Twitter to predict market changes, describes the information revolution as 'a gold rush'. What's the Big Idea?
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future.In just two we...
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Einstein didn't like quantum mechanics because it wasn't able to make perfect predictions... but science is not about what you like, it's about what's true!
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Climate change is likely to increase the frequency of wildfires in most of Europe and North America within the next 30 years.
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In a 1934 book titled, The Treaties on Documentation, Belgian entrepreneur Paul Otlet conceived of a system for requesting and retrieving massive amounts of information. Calling it a “radiated library,” Otlet’s device would allow users to retrieve all the world’s information—books, magazines, film, music—with a single phone call. Did he invent the Internet? Here, Alex Wright, director of user experience at The New York Times and discoverer of Otlet’s lost opus, explains at the 2012 World Science Festival program, Internet Everywhere, just how close Otlet had come to creating the world’s first information-networking system.
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Reality TV goes to Mars! Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp is leading a group visionaries and businesspeople who want to send four humans to Mars by 2023, and they say they can achieve their goal at an estimated cost of $6 billion USD. How can they do it? By building it into a global media spectacle. And oh, by the way, this will be a one-way trip.
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We can predict by analyzing their language, who will go on a date — who will match — at rates better than the people themselves.
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Retail investors' are not as unsophisticated as many think: they can actually predict future stock returns.
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At a time when obesity has become epidemic in American society, scientists have found that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans may be able to predict weight gain. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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As any high school senior staring down the SAT knows, when the stakes are high, some test-takers choke. A new study finds that activity in distinct parts of the brain can predict whether a person will remain cool or crumble under pressure. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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Researchers from Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with the Kiel Institute of World Economy in Germany, have developed a market "seismograph" — a new methodology that measures the interconnections between stock markets across the globe. It has the potential to serve as an early warning system and provide measures to manage and mitigate the spread of financial crisis.
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Last year came to an exciting end with the discovery of an Earth-like planet, Kepler-22b, orbiting a sun-like star outside of our solar system.
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