Category: Understanding
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Application before the theory… Living without knowing…
A new discovery explains what happens during the phase transition in Dirac materials, paving the way for engineering advanced electronics that perform significantly faster. (1) The dogma that theory should precede practical applications is a very persistent one. We are all affected by it. But remember: the biggest practical applications of modern days science are…
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Leibniz. Perception. Death. Existence.
A paper bringing into light Leibniz’s general ideas concerning aesthetics, and then, due to the epistemological-psychological significance of sense perception in Leibniz’s philosophy, inquiring into it in detail and attempting to clarify the place of sense knowledge in human knowledge according to Leibniz. A paper venturing to divide Leibniz’s approach to sense qualities into objective…
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The transition to life. mRNA translation. The futility of life questions.
The transition from an egg to a developing embryo is one of life's most remarkable transformations. Yet little is known about it. Now Whitehead Institute researchers have deciphered how one aspect - control of the all-important translation of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) into proteins - switches as the egg becomes an embryo. That shift is controlled…
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You have seen this before…
People say they see things for the very first time. But you cannot see anything you have not seen before. Because the very moment you see it, you have already seen it… And the only reason you see it is because you already understand it. A mind cannot understand what it does not already know.…
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Back to school… After school… [OR: Why gods admire. Why humans try to understand]
Doctoral students in the sciences are more like the rest of us than previously thought: They don’t know what they want to do with their lives, either. So, when confronted with the choice of what to do with their newly minted doctorates, they tend to keep marching in a straight path, to pursue postdoctoral research…
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