Sunday, July 13, 2014

Don’t cry for me

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It was an enjoyable spectacle – something that lifted the spirit of at least half the world. Sport, perhaps the only human invention, that m...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Engineers discover uncertainty

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A recent paper in Science describes simulations and systematic analyses of uncertainty as a way to simplify predictions of material properti...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

The end of mind?

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In a recent study (1), the authors seem to have made the following interesting observation: “In 11 studies, we found that participants typ...
Friday, July 4, 2014

The education gap

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A recent article in NY times points out correctly that there is a subtle difference between the statement that “the US has the best universi...
Thursday, July 3, 2014

Stupidity of the crowds

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Recent research from the Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands show that Chimpanzees quickly copy arbitrary behavior...
Saturday, June 28, 2014

Maximizing children

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Recent research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that early stress – such as poverty and abuse - has a lasting deleterious ef...
Friday, June 27, 2014

The age of AI

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Computer scientists from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle claim that they have cr...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

Homocentrism

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Nearly 500 years ago, a heliocentric view of the solar system was proposed. It was reluctantly accepted over time – by the religious and no...