Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Terraforming the Earth

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As space agencies around the world race to the red planet and beyond in an attempt to satisfy ego and ignorance, they may want to focus ...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Barren universe

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Not withstanding the efforts of space agencies and academic institutions around the world to find extra-terrestrial life, it appears that ...
Tuesday, December 1, 2015

The death of logic

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  In a country of blue, red and grey In a land of every possible hue Where policies are made on the back of a napkin To satisfy dono...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Proof of simulation

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The idea that the universe is a simulation has been in the periphery of cosmology. This is not surprising – every established scientific are...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Chicago’s moment to leap to the future

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With nearly 75% of the US population expressing the idea that racism is a problem for the country, it is clear that the country is in deep ...

A small leap for Man and a big jump for Math

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Recent news that a University of Chicago mathematician may have reduced a NP complexity problem of network comparisons to that akin to P le...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

The economics of violence

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Organizations – religions, countries and country clubs, operate on a simple idea. Individuals in a system have a put option with a limited ...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Puppet show

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The Unified Microbiome Initiative (UMI), as described in a recent article in Science, albeit belated, is a step in the right direction. As i...