Category: Philosophy General
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The tower, self-assembly, Self…
A tower which builds itself is absurd, however in the nano world self-assembly is reality. Physicists have investigated how to control the ordering of such self-assembling structures at the nano-scale. Physicists investigated how they can control the ordering of such self-assembling structures and found out how to switch the assembly process on and off. (1)…
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Pythons, Philosophy, going home…
Burmese pythons can find their way home even if they are taken dozens of kilometers away. It is the first demonstration that big snakes can navigate at all, and far exceeds the distances known to have been traveled by any other snake. (1) We all seek home. We all try to return home. The problem…
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The first time, memories, philosophy…
When the influential American conservationist Aldo Leopold canoed down the Colorado River delta to the Gulf of California in 1922, he was awestruck by endless wetlands teeming with wildlife. Leopold vowed to never return, fearing that the wilderness wouldn’t live up to his memories. He was right: After the U.S. government repeatedly dammed the river…
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Smart, stupid, IQ, categories…
At 10 a.m. Monday morning of March 3 (2014), while most of Washington, D.C., lay quietly under a blanket of snow, the U.S. Supreme Court rang with nerve-wracking arguments over the fate of Florida death row inmate Freddie Lee Hall. The question at hand was whether Hall, who in 1978 helped assault and murder a…
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Appetite, hunger, Tao.
Researchers have made the surprising discovery that the hunger-inducing neurons that activate these AgRP neurons are located in the paraventricular nucleus — a brain region long thought to cause satiety, or feelings of fullness. This unexpected finding not only provides a critical addition to the overall wiring diagram, but adds an important extension to our…
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