Category: Knowledge
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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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Knowing, forgetting, communication, questions, Persival.
In order to function properly, the human brain requires the ability not only to store but also to forget: Through memory loss, unnecessary information is deleted and the nervous system retains its plasticity. A disruption of this process can lead to serious mental disorders. Scientists have now discovered a molecular mechanism that actively regulates the…
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Old theories. New theories. All the same... (?!)
When physicists translated a 13th-century Latin text into modern equations, they discovered that the English theologian who wrote it had unwittingly predicted the idea of the multiverse in 1225. While the work probably won't advance current models, it does show that some of the philosophical conundrums posed by cosmology are surprisingly pervasive. In particular, Tom…
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Think! Decide! Think! Decid... STOP! [Harmonia]
Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is known about what happens in the brain when a person makes these kinds of decisions. Studying how these cost-benefit decisions are made when choosing to consume alcohol, a researcher identified distinct profiles of brain activity…
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Human-like computer language. Parmenides. Humans.
Stephen Wolfram wants to create a more human-like language for programming computers. (1) But how can anything we make be non-human? If we think with 1s and 0s this is because for some reason this is encoded into our existence. One and Nothing are the building blocks of the cosmos. From Parmenides to Leibniz, monads rule…
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