Category: Question
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Back to analog… Looking at the forest again…
Analog computers were used to predict tides from the early to mid-20th century, guide weapons on battleships and launch NASA's first rockets into space. They first used gears and vacuum tubes, and later, transistors, that could be configured to solve problems with a range of variables. They perform mathematical functions directly. For instance, to add 5…
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Insects. Man. Road-map to life… Through silence.
Whether a worm, a human or a blue whale, all multicellular life begins as a single-celled egg. From this solitary cell emerges the galaxy of others needed to build an organism, with each new cell developing in the right place at the right time to carry out a precise function in coordination with its neighbors.…
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Too many questions…
How do our personalities develop? What do we come with and what is built from our experiences? Once developed, how does personality work? These questions have been steeped in controversy for almost as long as psychology has existed. In an article in Psychological Review, Carol Dweck tackles these issues. She proposes that our personalities develop…
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Why?
Why? A question that hides all the answers. Why does the world exist? We wander… Without understanding just how what we ask also answers our question. How would we look for whys in a world without cause? How? A question that in itself explains why we should not even ask her... Everything can be done…
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Avoiding uncertainty. By simply hiding it. Avoiding ignorance. By simply not asking.
Researchers report the discovery of a new technique that could drastically improve the sensitivity of instruments such as magnetic resonance imagers (MRIs) and atomic clocks. The study reports a technique to bypass the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. This technique hides quantum uncertainty in atomic features not seen by the instrument, allowing the scientists to make very…
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