Category: Knowledge
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Reading more… Becoming blind…
From concerns over blue light to digital strain and dryness, headlines today often worry how smartphones and computer screens might be affecting the health of our eyes. But while the technology may be new, this concern certainly isn’t. Since Victorian times people have been concerned about how new innovations might damage eyesight. In the 1800s,…
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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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Staying awake. Sleeping more. Not understanding. Knowing everything...
New Michigan State University research suggested babies who are less active get less sleep, something new parents may want to consider when looking for possible solutions for the long, sleepless nights. Napping doesn't help either. In fact, babies who slept less at night, yet napped more during the day, still weren't able to get as…
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Life. Evolution. Quantum algorithms. A veil of obscurity disguised as light…
A scenario of artificial intelligence could see the emergence of circumstances in which models of simple organisms could be capable of experiencing the various phases of life in a controlled virtual environment. This is what has been designed by the QUTIS research group at the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry, but the scenario is that…
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Spreading bad ideas.
How ideas move through academia may depend on where those ideas come from - whether from big-name universities or less prestigious institutions - as much as their quality, a recent study from the University of Colorado Boulder suggests. The new research borrows a page from epidemiology, exploring how ideas might flow from university to university,…
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