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Hello my fellow Politiores Troglodytes. This Blog is a collection of Posts, Poems, & Short Stories that I write on a daily basis. If you find it entertaining, informative, and controversial, then I have done my job properly. Thank goodness too, because Karma has been on my case of late. I'm supposed to bring fifty people into the fold or I'll have to give back the part of Einstein's brain I inherited. No, I'm not one of the Scientists who got a piece of his brain when he died. Karma said, "Eat this knowledge. It'll make you smarter!" The bargain I made with Karma was, if I could change fifty people into Politiores Populos, I would be rewarded with my very own Lamborghini. So, that's my story and I'm sticking to it! Like what you're reading, then read on. P.S. Populo is Latin for people. Politiores is Latin for educated. Troglodytes is English for troglodytes. And Einstein's brain was stolen by Thomas Stoltz Harvey after his death in 1955 and eventually divvied up into 240 pieces. If you just read that last sentence, then you have just learned something and I'm just that much closer to fulfilling my commitment to Karma!

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Geek Saturday

I haven't been keeping up on my
Geeky Tech Talks
on
Saturdays
like I used to,
so I believe today is the day to revive those types of
Posts.
Especially this first story.
Since my kids,
grand-kids,
relatives,
friends,
and neighbors all use this
App
to try to talk to me.
Even though I have never once personally used it.

By Jason Murdock for on MSN.com/News
"Hackers are now using Facebook Messenger to circulate malicious links in an attempt to trick unsuspecting victims into downloading various forms of adware. It remains unclear how fast it is spreading – but experts believe it could be the result of stolen passwords, hijacked web browsers or a technique known as clickjacking. This was spreading via Facebook Messenger, serving multi-platform malware/adware, using tons of domains to prevent tracking, and earn clicks. The code is advanced and obfuscated, said David Jacoby, an expert at cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab. The Facebook message used typical social engineering tactics to trick users into clicking a link – meaning the content was designed to appear personalized. In this instance, it came in the form of a short message with the victim's name, a shocked face emoji and a shortened Bit.ly link to a blurred out video."
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More proof that using
Facebook
is really detrimental to your health!

By Brooks Hays for UPI 
"Two separate teams of researchers have found half of the universe's hidden matter, partially solving a mystery that has long troubled astronomers. When it comes to the search for missing matter, dark matter -- the mysterious, invisible material accounting for roughly 80 percent of the mass of the universe -- hogs the headlines. But astronomers have also struggled to find a lot of visible matter, too. Now, a pair of research teams have found the missing matter. The matter is made up of particles called baryons, heavy subatomic particles made up of three quarks. Astronomers discovered the missing baryons among strands of hot, diffuse gas linking the universe's galaxies together -- the faintest portions of what's known as the cosmic web."
 I am still looking forward to
Dark Matter.
Because it matters!

By Suraj Radhakrishnan for on MSN.com/News
"Imagine a small nanobot injected into your bloodstream that travels through organs, identifies dead or dying cells, and eliminates them, effectively curing a disease. Does that sound too far-fetched? Researchers have recently taken significant steps in implementing nano-science in medicine. The scientists from the University of Colorado, Boulder, have engineered nano-particles, which can produce chemicals that make drug-resistant bacteria more susceptible to antibiotics, shortening the length of treatment. These bots are fundamentally quantum dots, which are capable of producing a chemical that makes the pathogen more reactive to the tried and tested antibiotics. This study, published in the journal, Science Advances, could help combat super-bugs that tend not to respond to a standard antibiotic treatment, increasing the treatment time and severity of methods of treatment."
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 There you have it.
Some of the stories I have been reading
and find fascinating.
As
Spock
would say.

This is,
Always Willing To Learn,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
- Isaac Asimov -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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