Category: Nothingness
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The era of AI and the role of humans
The think tank 2050withHumans has started publishing some ideas on how humans will stay relevant in the era of AI until 2050 and beyond. One can view the relative article at https://www.2050withhumans.com/post/2050-with-humans-what-humans-do-not-do-is-what-defines-them. In a nutshell, this article entertains the idea that what defines us as humans is not what we do and what we think…
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Draw… you.
It's the archetypal child's drawing - family, pet, maybe a house and garden, and the child themselves. Yet, how do children represent themselves in their drawings, and does this representation alter according to who will look at the picture? A research found that children's expressive drawings of themselves vary according to the authority of and…
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Row by row…
Just as children follow a rule to line up single file after recess, some materials use an underlying rule to assemble on surfaces one row at a time, according to the study done at PNNL, the University of Washington, UCLA, and elsewhere. Nucleation - that first formation step - is pervasive in ordered structures across…
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Irregularities…
A study exploring the coupling between heat and particle currents in a gas of strongly interacting atoms highlights the fundamental role of quantum correlations in transport phenomena, breaks the revered Wiedemann-Franz law, and should open up an experimental route to testing novel ideas for thermoelectric devices. (1) Irregularities between thermal and electrical conductivity. Just an…
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Ethics in numbers = No ethics.
It's easy to understand why natural selection favors people who help close kin at their own expense: It can increase the odds the family's genes are passed to future generations. But why assist distant relatives? Mathematical simulations by a University of Utah anthropologist suggest "socially enforced nepotism" encourages helping far-flung kin. The classic theory of…
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