Category: Arrogance
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Coronavirus. Human arrogance. Death.
Just before the coronavirus outbreak in China, we all were reading great articles and scientific announcements about how science will soon beat even death and make us immortal... Now we know that the giant we believed in had legs of clay. Now we are collectively trying to survive from a virus in the midst of…
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Narcissism. Knowledge. A whispering voice…
A researcher at Queen's University Belfast suggests that the growing rate of narcissism in society could be linked with school achievement. (1) Modern civilization. Increasing knowledge. Growing narcissism. Growing arrogance. It takes a really brave man to admit he knows nothing. It takes a really arrogant man to claim he knows something. We have left…
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Few bodies problem…
In physics, the conundrum known as the "few-body problem," how three or more interacting particles behave, has bedeviled scientists for centuries. Equations that describe the physics of few-body systems are usually unsolvable and the methods used to find solutions are unstable. There aren't many equations that can probe the wide spectrum of possible few-particle dynamics.…
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Sanitation. As in “Medicine saves lives”. (but not as you expect)
The value of sanitation at reducing child mortality in many low income countries has been substantially underestimated according to recent research. A study by Prof Paul Hunter from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Dr Annette Prüss-Ustün from The World Health Organization concludes that vital health benefits of access to sanitation facilities such as…
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Dogmas, science, assumptions and the need for Philosophy!
Horgan: What’s your opinion of the recent philosophy-bashing by Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss and Neil deGrasse Tyson? Rovelli: Seriously: I think they are stupid in this. I have admiration for them in other things, but here they have gone really wrong. Look: Einstein, Heisenberg, Newton, Bohr…. and many many others of the greatest scientists of…
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