Category: Knowledge
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Medicine, SADS and our "I know everything" mania...
A teenager girl collapsed and died minutes after she was kissed for the first time. Scientists claim that she suffered from sudden adult death syndrome (SADS), without her knowing so. (1) Oh, how teffiried are we to admit that we do not know something. Tagging the death as "SADS" does not solve the mystery of…
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Knowledge is NOT power... (or: 知識は力ではありません) 🙂
Taro Aso said that bankers in Japan had not been able to understand the complex financial instruments that were the undoing of major global players in the 2008 crisis, so had not bought them. "Many people fell prey to the dubious products, or so-called subprime loans. Japanese banks were not so much attracted to these products,…
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Being advanced... Being stupid...
Modern children have all the technology at the tip of their fingers. They have instant access to vast amounts of knowledge. [1] But they must give it up before it is too late. Because that thing to what they have access is not "knowledge". It is data. Knowledge is earned. Not read. If you do…
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Dirt, medicine, knowledge...
The colloquial medical advice “rub some dirt in it” appears to have some merit. Researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have been experimenting with different clays, and it appears in research presented in the journal PLoS ONE that they’ve come across a family of antibacterial clays capable of killing pathogens ranging from E. coli…
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