Schools in England Introduce a New Subject: Mindfulness

“The mindfulness practice in elementary school comes out after a survey commissioned by the National Health Service found that one in eight children in England between the ages of 5 and 19 suffered from at least one mental disorder at the time of their assessment in 2017.
The practice includes teaching kids to learn relaxation techniques, such as breathing exercise and various basic emotional regulation techniques.”

I’m excited when I saw the news that finally some government started addressing students’ mindfulness issue and practiced it at such an early age. Patients suffering mental issues at an early stage usually did not even realize that is already at the early stage. When they realize it, the situation sometimes already seems out of control. If the school can equip the students mindfulness knowledge at elementary school, students can find a way out when stress comes. In a bigger picture, maybe the population of patients suffering from mental issues can drop.

However, it got me into thinking that In the case of mental issue, to know how we should handle it when the case happens is more important or preventing it from happening is more important? The practice of mindfulness exercise is definitely out of good purpose, but is the technique that they learn in school can solve the situation for every student?

Yi-Wei “Tim” Chen
Source :
Schools in England Introduce a New Subject: Mindfulness
https://nyti.ms/2DShAkK?s

5 Robots Revolutionizing Architecture’s Future (Siying Chen)

http://www.archdaily.com/336849/5-robots-revolutionizing-architectures-future

The relationship between architecture and robots may be inevitable given the rate at which modern technology is advancing. So far, architects have organized conferences to discuss ways in which robotic technology can be used to enhance creativity in architectural industry. In the modern world, technologies to control robotic machines such as robot arms have great chances of being adapted in architectural design. In architectural design, Molloy notes that use of robots will transition from merely using robot arms to use of more radial robotic techniques for design. “Such robots have been tested in countries like France in flight assembled architecture where small quad-rotor helicopter bots have successfully assembled a six-meter-tall and 3.5-meter-wide tower using polystyrene blocks”. These discoveries point to more advanced ways in which robots can revolutionize architectural designs and construction industry.

 

-Siying Chen

Scientists Hack a Human Cell and Reprogram It Like a Computer(ZIYI ZHAO)

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/biologists-made-logic-gates-dna/

 

This article talks about a huge breakthrough in biological filed. The scientists have acquired basic logic of DNA recombinases. They are treated like codes for computers. In this way, it is easier to find the normal principle of the different combinations. “A cell could be programmed, for example, with a so-called NOT logic gate. This is one of the simplest logic instructions: Do NOT do something whenever you receive the trigger.”

“Here’s how it worked: Whenever the cell did contain a specific DNA recombinase protein, it would NOT produce a blue fluorescent protein that made it light up.” In this way, we can detect the patient whether has the disease by seeing the protein whether light up or not which is the easiest way to make the right decision.

This discover could also applied to the AI field after we find more principles of the DNA in the future. In the future, the Robot could be just like human being with real skins even diseases.

Japan using robots as fix for labor, growth woes (Ssuhan Chen)

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/05/national/social-issues/japan-using-robots-fix-labor-growth-woes/#.WPSvmvnythE

As a result of the breakthrough in artificial intelligence, more than 30% of jobs in the UK are threatening. In some industries, about half of them will be unemployed. Automation can lead to increased efficiency and create new jobs, but automation can also lead to inequality, as more and more low-skilled jobs will be done by robots. Each industry has to deal with the impact of the robot, such as the wholesale and retail industries. There is no doubt that AI and robots will change the way the future work, some work more easily replaced. What is important is that we should ensure that the potential benefits of automation benefit the entire community and that no one is abandoned. In this case, we are ready to meet the change.

After automating more manual labor and repetitive work, some of the existing work will disappear, but at the same time, workers can focus on higher value, more rewarding, more creative work, so that daily work is no longer monotonous. However, even if the robot to replace the technical feasibility of workers, from the economic point of view may not be cost-effective. It depends on how the cost and efficiency of the robot are. At the same time, even if AI and robots have technical and economic feasibility, legal and regulatory barriers, structural inertia and obsolete systems will slow down the pace of change. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because the existing workers and business organizations will have more time to adapt to this beautiful new world.

This skyscraper is out of this world — literally (Ssuhan Chen)

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/29/living/analemma-tower-orbiting-skyscraper-trnd/

Facing the extreme climate makes human habitat less and less, the city’s space with high prices are prohibitive. A US architectural firm put forward a new idea: hanging from the outer space skyscrapers to the earth. CAO named the skyscraper as the Analemma tower, as the building was completed and moved according to the 8-word route of the day trail. In simple terms, CAO’s idea is to “hang” the skyscrapers on outer space asteroids, using solid cables to drop the skyscrapers from outer space to the earth, and the bottom of the building will be vacant, the top of the building and the ground The plane is 32 km away.

Design inspiration from the human cave came out, the building is getting higher and more light. We believe that one day the building can be divorced from the surface, so that we are free from floods, earthquakes and tsunami, the daily trail tower is about how we will achieve these ideas in the future adventure ideas.

In addition, the energy required for the daily trail tower will come from the tower set up solar panels, if you want to use water is to collect clouds and rain. People still have a lot of problems in living in such a building, such as how to do things on land, or how to live and see friends and relatives on the ground. I believe there will be aircraft in the future so that the residents of the trail can walk in the ground with the air, the ground will also set the electromagnetic elevator so that people can direct the trail tower.

A Swedish start-up has started implanting microchips into its employees (Ssuhan Chen)

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/03/start-up-epicenter-implants-employees-with-microchips.html

Forget to carry employee identification card is always very troubling. As long as the syringe is aligned with the tiger’s mouth, the grain-sized microchip can be implanted in the hands, you can carry this “employee card”, free to open the door, buy smoothies, easy to start the printer. Do not need a card, do not need to monitor the system, as long as the wave, the door will automatically open. The biggest advantage of implanting microchips is convenience, which can easily replace the functions of many items, such as some communication devices, credit cards, keys and so on. People have implanted many things through large-scale surgery, such as the use of cardiac rhythm to control the heart, so that a simple microchip implantation is not so serious. Although the physiological point of view is very safe, but the chip records can easily disclose the attendance and shopping habits, and mobile phones and cards is different, employees can not easily get rid of it. As microcodes continue to evolve, ethical dilemmas will become more and more.

Graphene-based sieve turns seawater into drinking water (Ssuhan Chen)

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39482342

Graphene oxide sieve are known as “magical materials” with unique mechanical and electrical properties. Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a new graphene oxide film that effectively filters the salt in seawater. In the context of the lack of fresh water resources in the world, the invention in the future desalination industry in the sea must have a very good application prospects. The future one day, can become a miracle invention to change the world. The technology will allow millions of people to drink fresh water. The United Nations expects 14 per cent of the world’s population to face the problem of the lack of freshwater resources by 2025. With climate change, urban water supplies will continue to decline. Developed modern countries have to strengthen the development of desalination plant desalination.

An MIT startup made a simple device that turns filthy car exhaust into beautiful ink (Y.Liang)

http://www.businessinsider.com/air-ink-graviky-labs-kickstarter-ink-pollution-2017-2

It is a real enhancement of green world improving project, which based a vision, to arrest the vehicular soot in a way that it doesn’t reach our lungs by repurposed pollutants into tools for art. Since the industry activities are booming all around the world that comes with the cruel effect- air pollution; in this generation, a breath of fresh air might become a rare luxury. Air Ink were assembled by capture soot, the black particles composed mainly of carbon, found in carbon emissions from petrol or diesel exhausts are captured from the tailpipes of cars through a special device called “Kaalink”, the captured particles are collected and after removing heavy metals, the carbon residue are finally transforming into paint or ink. By using 30ml of Air-Ink, we can negate 45 minutes worth of air pollution. The emissions from 2,500 hours of driving one standard diesel vehicle will produce around 150 liters of inks. With this technology, the environmental resources utilization shall be reevaluated.

 

“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.”

 

– R. Buckminster Fuller

 

Good Copy Bad Copy Explores Remix Culture and Copyright Law (Week 12) Ravyn.Crabtree

 

What this documentary is looking at is the culture of mixing and sampling music and how it may advance culture. Sampling and remixing is something considered good coping to the authors. Sampling can bring life and a president to a song and with that alone gives it more of an stance when listening to it. Remixing follows something very similar and really makes its own original. This is good for the music business because this brings a lot of new life and authenticity. Even when some one raps over someone else beat it’s an new song and can have a totally different meaning and feal. When Johnny Cash redid Hurt by Nine Inch Nails it became popular to a whole another group of listener and even was enjoyed by different generations.
https://www.wired.com/2008/04/good-copy-bad-c/

3D Printing Titanium Parts Could Save Boeing Millions on Dreamliner Production (Ssuhan Chen)

http://fortune.com/2017/04/11/3d-printing-norsk-boeing-dreamliner/

It is well known that modern large aircraft in order to take into account the strength and weight and other necessary metal parameters, usually will use titanium alloy, but this is not cheap metal, the cost of aluminum than seven times higher, so Boeing has been Want to overcome this problem, if there is a breakthrough in this area, will increase the competitiveness of Boeing.

But with 3D printing technology produced by the strength of parts, in the end comparable to the original mechanical forging technology has been a key issue. It is expected that this technology will be used more widely since 2018, which means that 3D printing technology has been adopted by industry to replace the traditional expensive forging process.