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Saturday, March 27, 2021

Scientific Sense ® Podcast with Gill Eapen: Top episodes in March 2021

Prof. Richard Lebed, Professor of Physics at Arizona State University on quarks and hadrons
https://lnkd.in/dcg_HSZ

Prof. Ryan Hickox, Professor of Astronomy at Dartmouth College on Black holes
https://lnkd.in/eBXSxsT

Prof. Scott Baraban, Professor & Chair in Neuroscience Research, University of California, San Francisco on epilepsy
https://lnkd.in/dHt-6MT

Prof. Maria Kazachenko, Assistant Professor of Astrophysical & Planetary Science at the University of Colorado Boulder on the Sun
https://lnkd.in/dDmGwzA

Prof Erik Berglöf, Professor of economics at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on pandemics and developing countries
https://lnkd.in/dU6nUcC

Prof. Jonathan Tan, Professor of Astronomy at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg on star formation
https://lnkd.in/dUUMAEb

Prof. Randall McEntaffer, Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Penn State University on suborbital rockets
https://lnkd.in/dgfmAZT


#science #technology #economics




Saturday, March 6, 2021

Scientific Sense ® Podcast with Gill Eapen: Top episodes in Feb 2021

Scientific Sense ® Podcast with Gill Eapen: Top episodes in Feb 2021.

1. Prof. Igor Shovkovy of Arizona State University on semimetals
https://lnkd.in/dJzWtnB

2. Prof. Ghassan AlRegib of Georgia Institute of Technology on Deep Learning
https://lnkd.in/dGM763D

3. Prof. Lenn Goodman of Vanderbilt University on Science & Religion
https://lnkd.in/dcSQCrV

4. Prof. Anne Hart of Brown University on neuromuscular defects
https://lnkd.in/dB7S-YX

5. Prof. Murat Kantarcioglu of The University of Texas at Dallas on AI security
https://lnkd.in/dzCUS-Z

6. Prof. Emery Brown of Harvard Medical School on anesthetics
https://lnkd.in/dJzWtnB

7. Prof. Ellen Armour of Vanderbilt University on gender and sexuality
https://lnkd.in/d7PD383

8. Prof. Andrew Newberg of Thomas Jefferson University on religious experiences
https://lnkd.in/dCX3Fug

9. Prof. Jason Hafner of Rice University on plasmonic structures
https://lnkd.in/dbiDAUK

10. Prof. James Sauls of Northwestern University on quantum computing
https://lnkd.in/d4wqQfu



Thursday, January 21, 2021

The puzzle of life

It is puzzling. Any biological system accumulates so much pain and disutility that life continues to be the most enigmatic construct in logic. The only viable explanation has to be Physics based such as the unavoidability of such systems because of monotonically increasing entropy. However, given the free put option held by all life, it is unclear why it sustains beyond the short window of optimal exercise. The uncertainty in expected disutility is not sufficiently high to force a delay in this decision.

Fermi’s paradox looms over high statistical probabilities of a universe full of life. If pain is the governing attribute of life, more sophisticated forms will self expire so as to minimize disutility. That’s a possible explanation for the paradox. If so, it is possible that the universe will bifurcate into spaces where high forms of life voluntarily vanish and those where low forms of life accumulate pain. But why would we find the latter variety like us and all life around us. Perhaps to escape pain, life has to rise above the ordinary and to make itself irrelevant. That may not be an incremental process and one that presents a binary choice.

Are we presiding over a failed life system, one that did not choose to vanish but rather picked the wrong path to pain?




Sunday, August 30, 2020

Dunbar's Number