Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Per capita knowledge

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Switzerland and Sweden, both with more than 2 dozen Nobel laureates, producing over 30 prize winners per 10 million population stand in star...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Quantum chemistry

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Recent news from Princeton University that describes a technique that can closely approximate lattice energy of molecules may open up new av...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Vanishing singularity

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A recent hypothesis by physicists at the University of North Carolina contends that black holes simply cannot exist – mathematically. It is ...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Quorum disruption

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A recent paper in Chemistry and Biology describes how certain bacteria use small molecules to “quorum sense,” essentially coordinating an ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Profit maximization in societal design

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A recent study in the Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) (1) concludes what is obvious ...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Redefining AI

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Artificial Intelligence (AI), an artifact of the 80s, has been directionless. This is partly due to the overuse of the term and assigning “i...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Analytical dogma

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A recent study published in the Journal of American Medical Association by Stanford researchers showcases an amazing statistic – In the la...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Holographic

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A recent experiment at the Fermilab investigates if the apparent 3D space that surrounds us is a hologram.  The idea that uncertainty envelo...