Tag: philosophy
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Reality. In HD...
The world is our playground – especially when it is scanned and replicated exactly in a video game. A wave of new games use a technique called photogrammetry to produce digital replicas of the real world. The technique can be used to recreate rooms, objects, streets and even whole cities, says Krzysztof Plonka of special-effects…
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Colour and Soap...
Images of soap film. [1] Full of colors. Beautiful. Fleeting. Beautiful. Even though we do not completely understand why, we like them. What the hell, it MUST be philosophy in a hidden form of some kind...
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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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