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corrosive culture of cheating, plutocrats versus true capitalists, a dangerous combination – high risk appetite and low risk intelligence
Lies or lying is unavoidable. For those that try to live an ethical life the act of lying is a daily paradox. Your most cherished relationships, your livelihood and in some circumstances, your life is doomed without the white lie. These lies keep society going. Sometimes they are even virtuous when the choice is between [...]
the disappearing gifted scientist, beyond the scream, the mind in the context of culture
black and white flower petals The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Genius Margie Profet generated solutions to seemingly intractable puzzles of biology. Then she disappeared. Margie Profet was always a study in sharp contradictions. A maverick thinker remembered for her innocent demeanor, she was a woman who paired running shorts with heavy sweaters year-round, and [...]
poe and frontal lobe syndrome, 3D printing and paradigm shifts, an oppressed zero
Edgar Allan Poe was the first person to describe in minute detail, frontal lobe syndrome fully eight years before scientists described a case and 139 years before researchers would write a formal description of the condition in children – The medical prescience of Edgar Allan Poe The macabre story of Phineas Gage, a US railroad [...]
wood bowling wallpaper, the homestead act, some history and economics
wood bowling wallpaper Document Deep Dive: How the Homestead Act Transformed America One hundred and fifty years ago this month (May), President Abraham Lincoln launched the greatest land giveaway in U.S. history and destined Ken Deardorff for one of the longest nights of his life. The Homestead Act, signed by Lincoln on May 20, [...]
wet dandelion seeds wallpaper, the philosophy of science is obsolete, romney’s usa – a modern serfdom
wet dandelion seeds wallpaper Has Physics Made Philosophy and That Other Thing Obsolete? I want to start with a general question about the relationship between philosophy and physics. There has been a fair amount of sniping between these two disciplines over the past few years. Why the sudden, public antagonism between philosophy and physics? [...]
mankind’s remotest relative is a very rare micro-organism, never admit wrong never apologize, picture of pictures
Mankind’s remotest relative is a very rare micro-organism from south-Norway Biologists all over the world have been eagerly awaiting the results of the genetic analysis of one of the world’s smallest known species, hereafter called the protozoan, from a little lake 30 kilometer south of Oslo in Norway. When researchers from the University of Oslo, [...]
some stuff about a key protein responsible for controlling nerve cell protection, chocolate splash wallpaper, new rule – reward incompetence
Considering the average age of the world’s population is increasing and the numbers of yearly strokes, I am a little surprised this story is not receiving much attention. Neuroscientists discover key protein responsible for controlling nerve cell protection The research team, led by Professor Jeremy Henley and Dr Jack Mellor from Bristols Medical School, has [...]
