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Because shame or distress about your thoughts and feelings can actually exacerbate them, while acknowledgement and acceptance of them tends to resolve in a healthier way. And this is necessary in a guilt-laden Calvinist society where many of us were raised to equate thoughts and feelings with actions and our “true selves” - which makes normal thoughts and feelings distressing when they don’t have to be.

Machines won’t bring about the economic robot apocalypse ― but greedy humans will, according to physicist Stephen Hawking.

In a Reddit Ask Me Anything session on Thursday, the scientist predicted that economic inequality will skyrocket as more jobs become automated and the rich owners of machines refuse to share their fast-proliferating wealth.

If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

Essentially, machine owners will become the bourgeoisie of a new era, in which the corporations they own won’t provide jobs to actual human workers.

There’s now a simple way to turn food into fuel, and it could change everything

Researchers at Cornell University have found a way to turn food waste into something useful.

In the journal Bioresource Technology, the engineers outline a two-step process that converts tossed away ingredients into fuel.

“Food waste should have a high value. We’re treating it as a resource, and we’re making marketable products out of it,” Roy Posmanik, a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “Food waste is still carbon – a lot of carbon.”

The first step is hydrothermal liquefaction, which effectively extracts all energy from the waste. During this step, the food waste produces crude bio-oil after being pressure cooked at a temperature of 200 to 350 degrees Celsius and at a pressure of 2 to 20 megapascal.

The crude oil can then later be refined to create liquid biofuel. Read more (6/30/17)

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