Category: Knowledge
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Reading, Non-reading...
Online retailer Amazon has said it will buy Goodreads, a book discovery and recommendation website. [1] San Francisco-based Goodreads was founded in 2007, has 16 million members and is one of the most prominent online communities for readers. Selecting which books you read is immensly important. Not because of what you finally choose. It is…
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Cellular grids, tetractys, geo-locating, identifying...
Scientists say it is remarkably easy to identify a mobile phone user from just a few pieces of location information. Whenever a phone is switched on, its connection to the network means its position and movement can be plotted. This data is given anonymously to third parties, both to drive services for the user and…
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Look inside, to see the stars...
Ancient rises in sea levels and global warming are partially attributable to cyclical activity below Earth's surface, researchers from New York University and Ottawa's Carleton University have concluded in a geological study. [1] Changes within deep inside related to phenomena seen on the outside. Too simple to be wrong. And the simple things are the…
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Knowledge, Faith, Evidence, Truth...
What is knowledge, if not Faith in the truthness of a proposition? Based to "evidence" up to a point yes, but Faith nontheless. And what does "evidence" mean anyway? What we observe is what we observe. "Evidence" is an artificial human-made word which conveys no meaning whatsoever, besides the meaning we chose to give it. Evidence is…
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Ancient myths, knowledge, gems...
Knowledge is earned difficultly. Through the ages, humans conquer parts of the truth. And along the way, useless and redundant pieces of "knowledge" are accumulated. The great filter of Time is what distinguishes true knowledge from illusions of truth. What remains after after thousands of years is what one must hold on to. The most…
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