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...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

The entropy of nations

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Research from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) shows that the disparity in per capita energy consumption among nations has been decreasing...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Entangled time

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A recent paper from Cornell shows experimentally that time could be an illusion – a property fully internal to the system. Time materializes...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Materials genome

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Research from Duke indicates that the recently launched “Materials Genome Initiative,” is already beginning to yield results. Their study pu...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Social progress

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Research from Harvard (1) provides an overall measurement of social progress for countries all around the world. Although there aren’t many...