Category: Knowledge
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Facebook, Google, the death of Internet, true knowledge...
In February, Facebook purchased the WhatsApp messaging service for the mind-boggling sum of $19 billion. It was the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company ever, but it also proved a clear, albeit subtle, point: Our relationship to personal data is shifting. WhatsApp charges users $0.99 a year, a fee it justifies in a straightforward way—no…
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Brain waves, mice, oscillations, "knowing"...
Researchers found the brain activity that happens when mice that are learning make the right choice—and know it. A new study links this specific type of brain activity with the short-term memory that animals, including humans, use for complex tasks. That type of memory, called working memory, is important for mental math, problem solving and…
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Edibile knowledge...
Planarian "cannibal" worms eating other trained planarian worms, learn much faster how to behave under certain conditions than other worms who did not eat trained worms! It is like the knowledge of the eaten ones is transferred to the cannibals! (1, 2 - see file "McConnell 1962 _ Planarian worms", 3) This is the startling conclusion…
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Good books. Bad books. Hidden truth...
Good books are sold to fewer people than the best selling books-for-the-masses and are, thus, more easily sold out. [e.g. "Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method" from Henry Bauer] (1) OR they are so hard-to-sell that they are extremely expensive to buy [e.g. "Types, Tableaus, and Gödel’s God" from Gödel]. (2)…
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Ceramic, hi-tech materials, the essence of progress...
Ceramic is more hi-tech than we imagine. Its technology could be used for spacecrafts in the future with much better results than the current "advanced" materials we now have. (1) What we consider "advanced" is not. What we consider "old" we will some day call it "new" again. Any progress moves us away from where…
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