As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather June 4, 2010: Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th. Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, explains what it's all about: "The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark report entitled "Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts." Much of the damage can be mitigated if managers know a storm is coming. "Space weather forecasting is still in its infancy, but we're making rapid progress," says Thomas Bogdan, director of NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. Bogdan sees the collaboration between NASA and NOAA as key. Author: Dr.
Réfléchir à l’impact du numérique sur la société avec les escapes games du laboratoire Techné Chaque jeu présente à sa manière un enjeu posé par le développement des outils numériques, de l’utilisation de la reconnaissance faciale à la protection des données. Ces jeux sont adaptés pour tous, dès le collège. De quoi réfléchir en s’amusant ! Les jeux sont mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d’utilisation commerciale 4.0. Tous les jeux sont accessibles gratuitement sur cette page. Game Robot : une enquête dans le monde des androïdes Avec le développement des sciences de programmation, les robots sont de plus en plus autonomes, mais aussi de plus en plus présents dans nos vies. L’histoire : En 2100, dans un monde ou les robots androïdes et les humains se côtoient, le docteur Ramiaux est retrouvé mort, seul chez lui. Pour qui : Le jeu est conçu pour un (ou éventuellement plusieurs) joueur(s), et un meneur de jeu. Public: Adolescents et adultes. Reconnaissance faciale : le contrôle social en question
Réinventer la démocratie grâce à la ville intelligente | La sphère Société Réinventer la démocratie grâce à la ville intelligente Le samedi 23 janvier 2016 Une ville intelligente, ce n'est pas seulement une ville connectée et remplie d'écrans ; c'est surtout une ville qui utilise le numérique pour renouveler sa démocratie et mettre en place des mécanismes de concertation ou de mise en commun. Créer un compte Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? | Science | The Observer Listening to Paul Zak extol the virtues of oxytocin, the "love hormone", is like hearing a preacher sing the praises of the Promised Land. His idea of a harmonious oxytocin-fuelled society is so seductive you find yourself almost praying it were true. At the same time, you cannot help but wonder if it might be an illusion. Oxytocin is best known for its use in inducing labour. To illustrate his point, at a recent appearance at TED Edinburgh, Zak spritzed the backstage staff with oxytocin, prompting a spontaneous outbreak of group hugging. When we finally speak, Zak tells me that "oxytocin is primarily a molecule of social connection. But of all Zak's claims, perhaps the one with the most profound social and economic implications, if true, is his assertion that oxytocin is the "essence of empathy". "It's the ultimate moral molecule," says Zak, who describes himself as a "born-again Smithian". The key, he says, is to kickstart a brain circuit called HOME (human oxytocin-mediated empathy).
Susan Joy Rennison Home Science + Vegan Recipes = One Good Healthy Eating Book I had the opportunity to catch one of the first screenings of Forks Over Knives in New York City last year. Besides loving the film myself, I came away feeling that I could show it, with confidence, to an omnivore of any background and feel confident that veganism was being presented in an accurate and inarguably rational and positive light. Yes! We need more media of this sort. Needless to say, as the film has been making its way around the country, it’s been starting up conversations and, we hope, changing everyone’s eating habits right and left. Just like the film, the book sets out a 3-pronged rationale for following a plant-based diet. First, it’s more healthful. Second, it’s better for the environment. And third, a vegan diet banishes cruelty to animals and allows us to be more humane. For all these reasons, one may have come out of the Forks Over Knives movie theater desperate to switch over to a vegan diet, but perhaps unsure of how to go about it.
Quelle prise en compte des « usages » dans la conception des espaces publics urbains Le réaménagement des places à Paris est aujourd’hui un enjeu d’urbanisme majeur [1], l’espace public « [devant] constituer un lieu d’expérimentation de la ville partagée, […] pour qu’une priorité soit accordée aux piétons, aux circulations douces, à la nature et au lien social » [2]. Dès 2008, le projet de réaménagement de la place de la République [3] avait été lancé, préconisant de concevoir une « grande place populaire du XXIe siècle » [4]. Parmi les objectifs, il s’agissait d’intégrer les « nouvelles mobilités et mieux partager l’espace public » et de renforcer la convivialité des usages. Les usages comme fil directeur du projet L’usage, mot employé par les professionnels dans le projet de la place de la République de manière différenciée, forme un leitmotiv. « L’usage » a d’abord été un point de départ dans la définition des impératifs du projet. L’attention aux usages a aussi été un moyen de répondre à des besoins spécifiques en fonction de catégories d’usagers. Bibliographie
Crochet Swirls (Tutorial) « Crafts (Update: To see more of my patterns, please visit my ONLINE SHOP!) This is a little crochet swirl. You might have seen me using it in this project. And since I gave you a pinky swear promising I’d show you how it’s done, here it is. But before I start, I’d just like to let you know that I am no crochet guru. Not by a long shot. Which in short means that I really hope the following sentences make at least some sense. Here’s what you need. Two yarns of different color – the bulkier the yarn the bulkier the swirl. You also need one hook that will work well with your yarns, a needle and a pair of scissors. Let’s pretend that is not a hair cutting scissors. Please. The whole swirl has only four rows. 1. 2. 3. 4. Finish off. You have just created a funny curly strip. Now twist the strip into a nice shape. Using a needle and some yarn, sew some stitches in the middle and along the edges only to fixate the whole swirl. I made only three stitches and that was it. Enjoy, dear friends! Love, Petra
DNA Can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies « Quantum Pranx by Grazyna Fosar and Franz BludorfRussian DNA Discoveries: Original version THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes. Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. One can simply use words and sentences of the human language!
Quantum mind–body problem The von Neumann–Wigner interpretation, also described as "consciousness causes collapse [of the wave function]", is an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness is postulated to be necessary for the completion of the process of quantum measurement. Background: Observation in quantum mechanics[edit] In the orthodox Copenhagen interpretation, quantum mechanics predicts only the probabilities for different outcomes of pre-specified observations. What constitutes an "observer" or an "observation" is not directly specified by the theory, and the behavior of a system upon observation is completely different than its usual behavior: The wavefunction that describes a system spreads out into an ever larger superposition of different possible situations. However, during observation, the wavefunction describing the system collapses to one of several options. If there is no observation, this collapse does not occur, and none of the options ever become less likely. Reception[edit]
Quantum mind The quantum mind or quantum consciousness hypothesis proposes that classical mechanics cannot explain consciousness, while quantum mechanical phenomena, such as quantum entanglement and superposition, may play an important part in the brain's function, and could form the basis of an explanation of consciousness. It is not one theory, but a collection of distinct ideas described below. A few theoretical physicists have argued that classical physics is intrinsically incapable of explaining the holistic aspects of consciousness, whereas quantum mechanics can. The idea that quantum theory has something to do with the workings of the mind go back to Eugene Wigner, who assumed that the wave function collapses due to its interaction with consciousness. The philosopher David Chalmers has argued against quantum consciousness. Description of main quantum mind approaches[edit] David Bohm[edit] In trying to describe the nature of consciousness, Bohm discusses the experience of listening to music.
Model Suggests Link between Intelligence and Entropy +Enlarge image A. Wissner-Gross/Harvard Univ. & MIT A. D. A pendulum that is free to swing through all angles in a plane can be stabilized in the inverted position by sliding the pivot horizontally, in the same way that you can balance a meter stick on your finger. The smallest disks, subjected to causal entropy forces, tend to work in a synchronized fashion to pull down the largest disk, in what the authors present as a primitive example of social cooperation. The second law of thermodynamics—the one that says entropy can only increase—dictates that a complex system always evolves toward greater disorderliness in the way internal components arrange themselves. Entropy measures the number of internal arrangements of a system that result in the same outward appearance. Hoping to firm up such notions, Wissner-Gross teamed up with Cameron Freer of the University of Hawaii at Manoa to propose a “causal path entropy.” –Don Monroe References R.