Life

Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living

... like infrastructure or education. Russell says kids deciding what they want to be when they grow up aspire to become like the titans in Silicon Valley—risking that they’ll grow up wanting to solve the wrong problems. ‘What would it mean to design against despair or isolation or loneliness?’. As surgeon and author Atul Gawande explains in Being Mortal, funding improvements in palliative care—making people in extreme pain or at the end of their life more comfortable—would much more meaningfully address the problem of death. You make death less terrible and inevitable by making life less painful. Silicon Valley’s simplistic life extension arithmetic—you improve life by adding more years—glosses over the complicated social forces eroding or hampering the quality of life for so many people. “What would it mean to design against despair or isolation or loneliness?” asks Russell. “I have to think that just making another social media messaging platform doesn’t get us there.”. If the titans of Mountain View and Palo Alto are serious about fixing the real problems in ...

Real-life Nightmare:' Crash Deaths Of Mother And Daughter Leave Community In Disbelief

... leave community in disbelief. Mother and daughter.png. Libby and Julia Patterson were killed in separate De Kalb County crashes Tuesday afternoon on Alabama 117. (Facebook). .it sounds more like the plot of a sad movie than the real-life nightmare her poor family is having to live through. The deaths of a mother and her young daughter in separate crashes this week have left a De Kalb County community devastated, saddened and in disbelief. Julia Yates Patterson, 39, and her 8-year-old daughter Elizabeth "Libby" Patterson, both died Tuesday afternoon on Alabama 117 near their home. The mother died around 3 p.m. in a two-car crash. Just miles away on the same highway, her daughter was struck by a vehicle about 30 minutes later. "This just all seems surreal," said Sarah Hatfield Blalock, a friend and former classmate of Julia Patterson. "I mean, I keep saying it over and over in my head but it sounds more like the plot of a ...

Man Gets Life Sentences In Murder-for-hire Case

... to get Ruth Sagredo to go back to Juárez for her sister’s funeral, according to court documents and testimony. Cinthia Sagredo was gunned down by masked gunmen outside a hotel that her father owned in Juárez on Nov. 20, 2008. Ruth Sagredo was killed a few days later by masked gunmen who shot at the vehicle she was riding in during her sister’s funeral procession, according to documents and testimony. Roberto Martinez also was killed in the attack. Alan Garcia, the man allegedly hired to execute the plan, was killed a year later during a kidnapping attempt. Samuel Velasco’s sister,  Monica Velasco , who was a teacher at Thomas Manor Elementary in the Lower Valley, is still wanted by the U. S. Marshals Service in connection with the fatal shootings. Anyone with information on Monica Velasco’s whereabouts is asked to call the United States Marshals Service in El Paso at 534-6779. She is facing ...

Life Of Westminster Terrorist Khalid Masood's Mother

... under two years later she married Phillip Ajao. Masood grew up in a £300,000 house in the seaside town of Rye, East Sussex. RELATED ARTICLES. 60 shares. Twenty years later they moved to Tunbridge Wells where they set up home with his stepfather and two half-brothers, Alex and Paul. Paul Ajao, 50, lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and runs a number of florists and fabrics companies. He denied knowing Masood, while Mail Online have so far been unable to get in contact with Alex. His mother now lives in rural west Wales, on a farm in the village of Trelech, Carmarthenshire, with her husband, where she sells handmade 'bags, cushions and other textile goodies' on the website Folksy, The Times reported. In the description on the site, she says: 'Hello, I'm Janet and I live in rural west Wales with my husband, border collie and a few chickens. 'Our home is tucked away at the end of a little lane, and it's here that you'll find me making bags and cushions. His mother now lives in rural west Wales, on a farm in the village of ...

Our Best Shot At Finding Alien Life

... a high school graduation present. Over the last four years, the subcommittee he chairs has channelled money to scientists working on Europa , even when the space agency's chief wasn't asking for it. Generous investment means that much more of the technical work has been completed on Clipper than is normal for a mission at its stage (phase B) in the Nasa project cycle. The lander is at an earlier stage of development, called pre-phase A, but a report on the mission's science value was discussed at a workshop here at the LPSC. The lander has received no funding in the President's 2018 budget request for Nasa. But Dr Jim Green, director of planetary science at the agency, tells me: "That mission in particular is tremendously exciting, because it tells us the science we have to do from the surface of a moon that's really hard to get to. "We still have quite the process to go through, do the due diligence, understanding the kind of measurements we need to make. Then we'll work with the administration in the future at the right time to see if, budgetarily, we can move forward with it.". Some innovative Europa lander concepts have been proposed over the last two ...

New Orleans Judge Won't Preclude Life Sentence Before Teen Murder Defendant's Trial

... District Court Judge Arthur Hunter issued the dual rulings in the case of 17-year-old Miqueghele Brown, following a March 17 hearing that again raised the issue of Louisiana's inadequate public funding for indigent defense. In that hearing, an expert estimated the cost to prepare for a pre-sentencing mitigation hearing could reach $75,000. Hunter's ruling essentially would allow Brown, if he were convicted, to seek a sentence that includes probation without needing a so-called Miller hearing. Courts began holding those hearings after the Supreme Court's 2012 decision in Miller v. Alabama, which said mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole were unconstitutional for juvenile offenders. The justices said a life sentence still could be imposed upon convicted murderers who killed before the age of 18, but only after a judge held a Miller hearing to let defendants present mitigating evidence, such as testimony about their developmental history, social and familial circumstances, and other factors. This is not the first time Hunter allows a juvenile defendant ...

Life' Star Jake Gyllenhaal Fears No Aliens

... the scenes where he comes face-to-face with the Martian monster. That's because the alien was a product of his own imagination. "None of us knew what it looked like," he said. Film director Daniel Espinosa told the actors to picture their own ideas, "so using my imagination to conjure up what this thing would look like or how it would behave according to what I thought was really fun." The actors didn't get to see the alien until after the filming was completed and graphics designers had added it to the movie using computer-generated imagery (CGI). Astronauts find the first proof of life on Mars in a sample brought to the space station. The creature, which they named Calvin, seems harmless at first before growing into a bloodthirsty monster. Credit: Sony Pictures/CTMG Inc. David Jordan might regret looking for life on Mars  after the catastrophe that unfolds in "Life." But Gyllenhaal thinks we should keep searching for life on other planets anyway. "I believe that even in the face of fear, you should continue to search the unknown and keep making discoveries and evolve," he said. "The only way you can do that is to face your fears, whether ...

More Life' Somehow Has Twitter Savagely Roasting Uk Rappers

... and cant stop laughing __link__/VLm 9 Nkdp M 1. — W. E. B ya boi (@POMHS 16) March 22, 2017. Me when British rappers start rapping about guns I know that England doesn't have __link__/MCUHPD 3 b Fh. — Ben Dover (@Charles Dolphin_) March 20, 2017. When a UK rapper says they got that gas __link__/6 L 68 Cq CSDJ. — Gohanye West (@Pokemonye West) March 22, 2017. When a U. K rapper says he's got the burner __link__/w Hl V 3 x 8 l PW. — Add your name Jered (@Black Lifes Mater) March 22, 2017. When a british rapper says free his homie this is what they're trying to bail him from __link__/6 WF 8 Tp 7 Xhr. — F BOMB ON THE TL (@DMC 12 gauge) March 21, 2017. When UK rappers say they got beef __link__/QV 0 p Bo XIe K. — lil yawhh (@Capt Dozzie) March 21, 2017. Thankfully, not everyone is down for the slander. Me, a cultured individual, developing a taste for British rap __link__/7 vu Yba 3 F 9 Z. — Chris Harang (@chris_harang) March 20, 2017. Skepta Drops a New Video for "Shutdown". More Life features some UK input from Giggs , singer-songwriter Sampha , the amazing Jorja Smith , and (my personal favorite) an interlude from critically ...

The Filmmakers Behind Life Strived To Make A Realistic, Modern Version Of Alien

... could happen. It was thrilling to me.”. Life does have a sort of ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy, which is unique for a science fiction movie. It’s almost “science fact-ion,” in a way. And that’s what David Ellison, the CEO of Skydance, wanted when he first conceived the idea for the film. “He came to us with the idea of a sample of life being brought back from Mars that then, once exposed to the atmosphere on the ISS, comes backs to life and starts to attack the crew,” Miller said. He and Wernick, who together wrote Zombieland and Deadpool, worked on the script for about five months before Espinosa, who directed Safe House, was approached. “It was love at first sight,” the director said. “I read the script and it had great energy and pulsation throughout the picture. There were good characters to work out and it had these great turns that I thought ...