Tag: modern civilization
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Ice loss. From above…
Decades of satellite monitoring reveal Antarctic ice loss. (1) People sitting in the warmth of their home. Never to step on ice at all. Knowing all there is to know about ice… Detecting ice changes from above… Heidegger once said it pretty eloquently. The problem with technology is not that it doesn’t work. But that…
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![DC vs. Marvel: A battle already won (thus, lost). [Losing money in an era of profits]](https://harmoniaphilosophica.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_20190907_121528-960x260.jpg)
DC vs. Marvel: A battle already won (thus, lost). [Losing money in an era of profits]
DC will soon be releasing The Jocker. A film which had already won prestigious awards and which is destined to rule the Oscars. But why is that film successful, in comparison to other DC films? The answer is simple: because in this film, DC is itself and does not pretend to be something else that…
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Seeing through walls. Casting out the abyss.
X-ray vision has long seemed like a far-fetched sci-fi fantasy, but over the last decade a team led by Professor Dina Katabi from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has continually gotten us closer to seeing through walls. (1) Our modern miracles are so dull. We make things which can see through walls.…
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ScienceAlert, censorship, climate hysteria, scientific "consensus"...
Today the science news web site ScienceAlert issued an impressive announcement in its Facebook page: It urged its followers not to engage with "climate deniers" which it called "trolls". Instead, it told them to report those "trolls" so that they will be banned from the page if they utter any argument against climate change! (1)…
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Inadequate sleep. Inadequate perspectives.
Inadequate sleep is a public health problem affecting more than one in three adults worldwide. A new study suggests that insufficient sleep could also have grave economic consequences. (1) We feel bad for not sleeping. Because if we don’t, then we can’t stay awake for long. Once again blinded we are. By our mania to…
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