Category: Ignorance
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Certain. For… everything?!
Attitudes are our personal evaluations - of anything. It might be a political issue, other people, food, movies, cars, climate or even yourself. What a new research shows is that some people tend to be certain - and others uncertain - across a wide range of their attitudes, something which hasn't previously been explored. According…
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Certain!
Physicists are raising doubts about the existence of an exotic subatomic particle that failed to show up in twin experiments. (1) But by when would anyone be certain? When can anyone know anything? What a weird world. Shaped by the ones who are afraid of it. People being certain of what they know. Full of…
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Reducing resistance… Non-knowledge…
The realization of so-called topological materials - which exhibit exotic, defect-resistant properties - has opened up a new realm in materials discovery. Several of the hotly studied topological materials to date are known as topological insulators. Their surfaces are expected to conduct electricity with very little resistance, somewhat akin to superconductors but without the need…
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I learn. You learn. We learn. (nothing)
"I learn," "you learn," "she learns," "they learn," yet, according to a surprising new linguistic study, in countries where the dominant language allows personal pronouns such as 'I' to be omitted, learning suffers. (1) A more or less logical conclusion. Learning is about you increasing your knowledge. While being, on the other hand, is about…
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