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Google Pays Tribute To Steve Irwin On What Would Have Been His 57th Birthday
Google is honoring Steve Irwin on what would have been his 57th birthday with a big, colorful tribute that perfectly suits his personality.
The logo on Google’s search page Friday featured illustrations of the beloved wildlife conservationist who gained popularity through his TV series “The Crocodile Hunter,” which debuted in 1996 on Animal Planet.
Google The slideshow gives a look into Irwin’s adventurous life, which included him searching for crocodiles and feeding animals while working at the Australia Zoo.
It became a home for native species like lace monitors, tiger snakes, freshwater crocodiles and kangaroos.
Irwin’s mom, Lyn, had a talent for rehabilitating animals and then successfully releasing them back into the wild, as well as for making homemade kangaroo pouches for injured and orphaned joeys, according to the Australia Zoo’s website.
“He was actually inside one of the croc enclosures sharing with the visitors just how special crocodiles really are,” she said, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
“I had never heard anyone speak about crocs with such enthusiasm, much less have the calm courage to hand feed one of these giant saurians.” “I just had to speak to him,” she added.
“It was a decision that would change my life forever.” The couple got married in 1992 and spent their honeymoon on a crocodile rescue mission.
They expanded the park later in the ’90s and changed the name to “Australia Zoo.” The Irwins had two children, Bindi and Robert, who are also featured in Google’s slideshow.
Teri, Bindi and Robert still run the Australia Zoo and host their own Animal Planet show called “Crikey!
Google’s search bias against conservative news sites has been quantified
Guest essay by Leo Goldstein A Method of Google Search Bias Quantification and Its Application in Climate Debate and General Political Discourse Abstract The percentage of domain traffic, referred by Google Search, net of brand searches (PGSTN), tends to be in or around the range 25%-30% for a broad class of web domains.
Thus, PGSTN can be used rigorously to detect and even quantify Google Search intentional bias.
Methods It is known that Google Search provides 25%-30% of the user’s traffic to an average website.
Nevertheless, the Google attitude toward a domain has been provisionally noted and color coded in the attached spreadsheet PGSTN-Domains.xlsx as follows: Whitelist / Green Light: >36% Normal: 20%-36% Grey Area: 12%-20% Blacklist: <=12% Most domains were expected (based on the cited SEO research) to have PGSTN in the 20%-36% range.
Google Bias in Climate Debate The domains were selected mostly according to Alexa classification.
There is a huge gap between PGSTN of realism domains (6.3% – 17.4%), and PGSTN of climate alarmism domains (23.5%-52.4%).
Except for drroyspencer.com, all climate realism domains are blacklisted by Google (PGSTN is 6.3% – 11.0%).
Its PGSTN = 44.5%.
Google Bias in General Political Discourse To quantify Google general political bias, I selected top U.S. news and opinions sites by their ranking in Alexa, then added some lower ranking conservative sites based on my personal knowledge and/or Alexa suggestions.
In a new study, the Stanford team used the insect-inspired design to protect a fragile photovoltaic material… Guest essay by Eric Worrall A Californian judge ruled that President Trump’s administration acted illegally in suspending Obama era royalty hikes against resource projects on government land.
The Top Googled Health Questions In Every State—Answered
The Top Googled Health Questions In Every State—Answered.
Americans have lots of questions about health: 80% of adult internet users in the United States (that’s 93 million people!)
have searched for health information online (like these 15 things you only ask Google), according to a Pew Research Center report.
While it’s natural to turn to the world wide web for advice, wisdom is only power if you get the right information.
Sometimes, online health info can be conflicting and confusing, which could cause quite a bit of unneeded anxiety—or even endanger your health.
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While your doctor is generally the best person to address your concerns, we know that you’re probably not sitting on your hands while waiting for an appointment (or even a callback).
To get you some guidance in the meantime, we teamed up with our friends at Google to track down the top-searched health questions in each state, then turned to highly credible sources for some answers.
Read on to find out what’s top of mind for Americans across the country.
(Note: Since there was some overlap among the searches from various states, we focused on the top “unique” searches.)
Why Google Wants Everyone To Eat Less Meat
Why Google Wants Everyone To Eat Less Meat.
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However, animal-protein is a complete source, containing the correct amount of essential amino acids our bodies can’t synthesize on their own. “It’s possible to build complete protein from plant-based foods by combining legumes, nuts, and grains at one meal or over the course of a day.
But you’ll need to consume 20 to 25 percent more plant-based protein to reap the benefits that animal-derived sources provide,” Mark Tarnopolsky, M.D., Ph.D., told Men’s Health.
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The most popular recipe?
A vegan taco that was taste-tested and approved by the company’s employees.
The article Why Google Wants Everyone to Eat Less Meat originally appeared on Men’s Health.
Caught Red-Handed: Google Search Suppresses Climate Realism
This language is inserted in the guidelines with only one purpose – to eliminate climate realism websites from the results, shown to Google Search users.
The recommended sources of the information confirm that a strong leftist bias of Google Search is by design.
The word consensus appears 18 times in both the current (May 2017) and the previous (March 2017) versions of the Guidelines.
should come from authoritative sources in those fields, must be factually accurate, and must represent scientific/medical consensus within those fields where such consensus exists.” (Section 6.5) “Before using the Fully Meets [user’s needs] rating for queries seeking a very specific fact or piece of information, you must check for accuracy and confirm that the information is supported by expert consensus where such consensus exists.” (Section 13.2) “All of the following should be considered either lowest quality MC or no MC [MC – Main Content]: No helpful MC at all or so little MC that the page effectively has no MC.
Misleading or inaccurate informational content about YMYL topics.
Pages with lowest quality MC should be rated Lowest.” (Section 7.4) Thus, pages containing what Google considers inaccurate content are rated as the lowest quality pages, “regardless their purpose or intent,” and regardless whether the allegedly inaccurate content does supposedly harm or just supposedly deceive the users!
Even if the manual reviews according to these Guidelines do not directly impact the ranking of websites, the Guidelines reflect the principles and aims of Google Search.
Google consumes as much or more energy as the entire city San Francisco, and falsely claims that 100% of it is renewable energy.
Remember last year’s headlines like Google Says It Will Run Entirely on Renewable Energy in 2017 (NY Times) and Google to be powered 100% by renewable energy from 2017 (The Guardian)?
Context is king when advocating for renewable energy policies, according to political science professor June 30, 2017 by Sonia Fernandez Credit: University of California – Santa Barbara The first rule of advocating for climate change-related legislation is:… Although he’s been running this blog as a labor of love for more than ten years, Anthony has never had more than a week or so off to relax and recharge.
3 ways Google is making you healthier
3 ways Google is making you healthier.
A few years ago, you might have felt silly talking to Siri like she’s your crazy knowledgeable best friend.
And it’s about to be even more common with Google Assistant being rolled out on iPhone this week.
(Because how many people do you really know with a Pixel?)
If you haven’t heard of Google Assistant, it’s a search engine you can activate by typing or talking.
So yes, it works similarly to Siri, but it can also be incorporated into your text messages too, answering questions like where the closest juice bars near your yoga studio are so everyone on a group chat can decide where to go together.
But there are some cool ways the new features on Google Assistant and Google Home can benefit your wellness routine, too.
It acts as your personal coach YouTube has long been a resource for at-home workouts, but now, Google Home has a new partnership with Fitstar, which can guide you through an entire workout, whenever you ask it to.
Want it to coach you through an ab workout?
It also can call up videos on your phone or TV if you need a visual.
Google’s AI Eye Doctor Gets Ready to Go to Work in India
Google’s AI Eye Doctor Gets Ready to Go to Work in India.
Google is poised to begin a grand experiment in using machine learning to widen access to healthcare.
If it is successful, it could see the company help protect millions of people with diabetes from an eye disease that leads to blindness.
The software examines photos of a patient’s retina to spot tiny aneurisms indicating the early stages of a condition called diabetic retinopathy, which causes blindness if untreated.
The country is one of the many places around the world where a lack of ophthalmologists means many diabetics don’t get the recommended annual screening for diabetic retinopathy, said Lily Peng, a product manager with the Google Brain AI research group.
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In India, Google is working with the Aravind Eye Care System, a network of eye hospitals established in the late 1970s and credited with helping reduce the incidence of blindness caused by cataracts in the country.
Aravind helped Google develop its retinal screening system by contributing some of the images needed to train its image parsing algorithms.
Peng said today that Google has just finished a clinical study in India—meaning the technology was used in real patient care—with Aravind.
Work is now under way on getting the technology into routine use with patients, she said.
Google Racks Up More Patents Than Most Automakers On Connected And Self-Driving Cars
Author: Oliver Wyman / Source: Forbes Grab A Retirement Saver’s Tax Credit A heads-up display on an autonomous car dashboard at night
Will Anti-Fracking Websites Be Labeled ‘Fake News?’
Author: Kevin Kalhoefer / Source: EcoWatch Conservative outlets are highlighting a pro-fracking group’s attempt to convince Google, which recently promised to alter
