Tag: humans
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The most ancient Greek song…
Researchers try to recreate the most ancient known Greek song. (1) What is important is now echoing through the forests. What is trivial is what is left known to people. Emotions, feelings, joy, sorrow, laughter, tears, agony, nostalgia… Thing unwritten, things unspoken of. Shaping the world and who we are…
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Without humans…
What would happen if all humans suddenly vanished from the face of the planet? That freaky thought experiment is explored in a new video from YouTube’s AsapSCIENCE. (1) But can humans dissapear? Can consciousness leave the cosmos? Can the world NOT be?
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Ecology and Politics. Fossil fuel. Unused fossil fuel. Dark universe.
Policy makers have generally agreed that the average global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions should not exceed 2 °C above the average global temperature of pre-industrial times. It has been estimated that to have at least a 50 per cent chance of keeping warming below 2 °C throughout the twenty-first century, the cumulative…
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Schizophrenia. Voices. Spirits…
People with schizophrenia may hear either hostile voices goading them to jump off a bridge or a mother’s soothing words of advice, depending on the cultures in which they live, a new study suggests. In the United States, schizophrenia’s symptoms include hallucinations of disembodied voices that hurl insults and make violent commands, says an international…
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Computer artists. Human cubist art.
Computers are starting to identify objects with near-human levels of accuracy, enabling them to do everything from creating automatic picture captions to driving cars. But now a collection of bizarre optical illusions for these artificial-intelligence systems (AIs) has revealed that machines don’t see the same way we do, which could leave them vulnerable to exploitation.…
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