Thursday, February 23, 2017

Forecasting society's prospects

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The future prospects of human societies could be dependent on two important metrics - per capita knowledge and per capita compassion. It is...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Autonomous microbial growth distribution systems*

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As scientists worry about how to protect Europa (1), Jupiter's famous moon that harbors vast subsurface oceans with the possibility of ...
Friday, February 17, 2017

A memory lapse

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Modern science has been struggling to understand human memory for ever. It appears volatile and highly manipulatable but indestructible com...
Sunday, February 12, 2017

Expansion of the mind

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When Lucy stood up in the African savannah for the first time, she demonstrated that humans could be fundamentally different from ...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

A catastrophic divergence

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For most of human history, knowledge was evenly spread across the populace. As they hugged each other to survive the extreme cold that redu...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Strategy v/s tactics

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For many hundreds of thousands of years, the human brain specialized exclusively in tactics. Managing a simple objective function with two ...
Monday, January 23, 2017

Depressing - but there is hope

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It is depressing to think about the fact that nearly 100 in the US and ten times as many across the world succumb to suicide every day...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

It's time for universal basic income

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Finland's grand experiment, albeit in small scale, in providing a Universal Basic Income (UBI) without preconditions, ushers in a new...