Category: Knowledge
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Resurrection of Google Knol: Towards Knol 2.0 and why the good die young...
Knol is not dead. A weird statement to make, especially after Google shut it down some time ago. Let me explain things a little. Knol was a new initiative designed to promote knowledge. Google launched it and promoted it fiercely in the first months, attracting many authors. But what was so special about it? Weren't…
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Pope, Marxism, Plato, chairs...
Pope Francis responded to critics who call his stance on capitalism Marxist, saying in a new interview that the political and economic philosophy of marxism is flat "wrong". (1) Our mania to categorize things and thoughts has ruined our ability to distinguish right from wrong. We can only think with black and white.With "capitalism is right",…
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Understanding = Destroying. [Shestov/ Procrustes]
World's oldest creature is revealed to be 507-year-old shellfish called Ming – until scientists KILLED it by opening it up to check its age. (1, 2) Knowing something means destroying it, as Shestov has said (read "Harmonia Philosophica" article). Understanding something means crushing it so that we can put it into the little boxes we…
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Ancient China can slide! But how?!?
Fifteenth-century Chinese engineers didn't so much reinvent the wheel as dispense with it altogether – opting to drag heavy stones for building the Forbidden City along a slippery artificial ice road instead of wheeling them. That, at least, is the upshot of the latest analysis of a 17th-century Chinese text. Such a method would be…
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Light with mass, definitions, "true", "real"...
Light with mass. Particles with negative mass. Things defined, can change meaning in an instant. But even though definitions are subjective, in one way or another we can make them really work. (1) So elusive and yet so real. Makes you wonder. Can EVERYTHING be true and "real"?
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