Automatically Art-Directed Responsive Images? Here You Go. Meet the Robin Hood of Science The tale of how one researcher has made nearly every scientific paper ever published available for free to anyone, anywhere in the world. On the evening of November 9th, 1989, the Cold War came to a dramatic end with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Four years ago another wall began to crumble, a wall that arguably has as much impact on the world as the wall that divided East and West Germany. The wall in question is the network of paywalls that cuts off tens of thousands of students and researchers around the world, at institutions that can’t afford expensive journal subscriptions, from accessing scientific research. On September 5th, 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan, created Sci-Hub, a website that bypasses journal paywalls, illegally providing access to nearly every scientific paper ever published immediately to anyone who wants it. This was a game changer. So how did researchers like Elbakyan ever survive before Sci-Hub? This is the Catch-22.
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Humans already living in a COMPUTER SIMULATION, leading Nobel Prize astrophysicist warns | Science Astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize winner George Smoot has presented some convincing arguments on why he believes we already living in a simulation. He says that the progress of video games is an example that humans are already capable of producing virtual realities. He said: “Will humans produce realistic simulations? The answer is yes. “Clearly were making progress [with simulations]. Look at Pong and look at the kind of video games we have now.” He then goes on to talk about how our brains will one day be downloaded onto computers. Dr Smoot says that a Google expert told him “We will be downloading entire minds to computers by 2045.” Thanks to advances in MRI scans, we are now able to map the individual neurons in the brain, which will be be used to put the mind into a computer. However, he says that the mind will become bored if it is just sitting inside a computer which is why a virtual reality will be created. Dr Smoot: “Will advanced beings run simulations?
Adding a file to a repository You can upload and commit an existing file to a GitHub repository. Drag and drop a file to any directory in the file tree, or upload files from the repository's main page. Tip: You can upload multiple files to GitHub at the same time. On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository. Click Commit changes. Further reading Holistic Science MSc, PG Cert Western science is dominated by ‘reductionism’ – the idea that natural phenomena can be explained in terms of their component parts. Reductionism is incomplete, and can be counter-productive since it suggests that by analysing the ‘mechanical’ workings of nature we can fully predict and manipulate it. Holistic science recognises the limitations of this methodology, focusing instead on nature’s qualities, complexity and intrinsic value, giving a science fit to solve global challenges. Schumacher College in partnership with Plymouth University (link is external) is the first in the world to offer a postgraduate programme in Holistic Science. What is Holistic Science? The programme explores new methodologies that are gaining success in exploring natural systems. The course provides methodologies that go beyond reductionism in understanding dynamic interactive systems, whether these are ecosystems, the weather, organisations, a plant or a developing human embryo.
Le blog Netapsys Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones by Maria Popova How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.” “It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,” Lincoln Steffens wrote in his beautiful 1925 essay. And yet the contour of what we know is a mere silhouette cast by the infinite light of the unknown against the screen of the knowable. That’s what Lebanese-American scholar, statistician, and essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb explores in a section of his modern classic The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (public library) — an illuminating inquiry into the unknowable and unpredictable outlier-events that precipitate profound change, and our tendency to manufacture facile post-factum explanations for them based on our limited knowledge. The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. HT Bobulate
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Radical Behaviourism and Society | Warm Little Pond Here is yet another entry for the Rational Skepticism Science Writing Contest. Please give it a read and, if you like it, vote for it! Also, I may have failed to mention, the general topic the essays must address is “What area of scientific research do you think will prove to be the most important by the end of this century, and why?” By Mr. B. As this metascientific position claims that behaviour is caused by its relation to the environment through a method of selection by consequences, then the question of free will and determinism is necessarily raised. Radical Behaviourism The notion that psychology should rely on objective measures, as opposed to the subjective approach of introspection, was outlined in John B. These intervening variables, Skinner believed, were not necessary in order to understand behaviour. Gilbert Ryle described the use of intervening variables as an explanation for behaviour as a category mistake (Ryle, 1984). Determinism and Free Will Values and Morals Conclusion
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Science Proves That Human Consciousness and Our Material World Are Intertwined: See For Yourself Nikola Tesla said it best, “the day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. To understand the true nature of the universe, one must think it terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Swami Vivekananda influenced Tesla’s work, an Indian Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th century saint Ramakrishna. Tesla was also influenced by other Vedic philosophies. Science works best when in harmony with nature. Intention of This Article. I want to make it clear that my intention of presenting this information is to demonstrate that thoughts, intentions, prayer and other units of consciousness can directly influence our physical material world. The Science For quite some time now, physicists have been exploring the relationship between human consciousness and its relationship to the structure of matter. “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real” – Niels Bohr 1.
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