Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Dark ages of aviation

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Aviation is considered to be one of a few technological discontinuities of the last century along with the computer and the internet. The du...
Friday, March 14, 2014

Intelligence handicap

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Humans have been handicapped with a huge quantum computer they carry on their shoulders. The miracle machine, that may house as much as a bi...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Noisy trials

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A recent study in the Eu ropean Heart Journal that shows that the common wisdom that high HDL has a protective positive effect on cardiovas...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Mathematical beauty

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A recent paper in the Frontiers in Human Neuroscience journal shows that the region of the brain – medial orbito-frontal cortex – is unifo...
Sunday, February 9, 2014

The decision arbitrator

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A recent study from Caltech provides tantalizing clues into decision processes employed by humans. Using experimental results, the study hyp...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

Last men standing – US Graduate schools

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A recent report from the NSB (National Science Board) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) portray a gloomy picture for the US – showi...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Efficient designs

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A recent article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that a group of non-experts in aggregate produced designs for...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Apparent confusion

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Recent revelations of the apparent horizon, trumping the long held notion of the event horizon, is symptomatic of mathematical manipulation...