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Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Chris B on Tuesday. 6 Replies 1 Like
In these articles 17 experts summarize 150 studies.Expert prognosis for the planet - we're on track for a ghastly future"A loss of…Continue
Tags: ineffective climate action, political impotence, Climate Destabilization, existential threat
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This discussion is to have a recurrent thread for science news, tidbits, quick facts, videos, photos, etc, that do not merit their own…Continue
Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Stephen Brodie Nov 28, 2020. 1 Reply 1 Like
...the number of new COVID-19 cases reported on a Sunday or Monday—data that are actually collected on Saturday and Sunday—is typically several percentage points below the weekly average. Holidays tend to bring the same delays as weekends, and…Continue
Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Mrs.B Nov 15, 2020. 4 Replies 2 Likes
Seth offers us several silly, outrageous, ridiculous, disgusting examples of some evangelicals' reaction to Trump's loss. No wonder his crowds look and sound so vulgarly. There is no use in trying to reason with such hysteria.Continue
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Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Stephen Brodie Oct 12, 2020. 1 Reply 0 Likes
"isochronal anchor escapement with pivoted pallets".JOHN HARRISON 1693 -…Continue
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Started by Tom Sarbeck. Last reply by JeanMarie May 10, 2019. 6 Replies 0 Likes
Gould was wrong; the two magisteria - religion and science - do overlap.Less in Europe and England after centuries of religious wars; more in America where the religious constantly stir up political war.A religious method’s hypothesis, god did it,…Continue
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Started by Tom Sarbeck. Last reply by Lutz May 5, 2019. 30 Replies 0 Likes
A. The scientific method requires confirmation by others. Who will confirm this claim?B. Scientists tell their peers of achievements in journals and at conferences. Give some thought to reasons why these people are using popular media. Continue
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Started by Tom Sarbeck Jan 9, 2018. 0 Replies 1 Like
...if the origin of life is among your interests, go to www.youtube.com and on its search bar enter “electricity of life”.You will see links to short videos telling of recent research into this question. One of…Continue
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Started by Adriana. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck Apr 23, 2017. 7 Replies 0 Likes
Remember the 40,000 year-old Denisova finger bone that yielded sufficient DNA to speculate that this ancient human, like Neanderthals,…Continue
Started by Tom Sarbeck. Last reply by Tom Sarbeck Nov 19, 2016. 31 Replies 1 Like
Many if not all human societies have origin myths and they differ greatly.Several years ago a San Francisco-born-and-raised woman told me she is a materialist.An hour ago a woman who was raised a Jehovah Witness and has left that faith told me the…Continue
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Then there's the new variant that we're not sure of yet.
Joan Hee Hee
I think not as I do not think he would have dressed so informally for the Nobel prize in that get up. Funny to think about none the less
Ah! Well at least that is the light at the end of the tunnel in regards to this corona bug. so give it another six months and this bit of human history will but just another page in History book of Humanity.
Davy. One of the reasons why so many people fear the development of the science of AI is the truly esoteric nature of the subject. But a really interesting subject nevertheless. Thanks, Davy.
Davy, I do not understand how AI can make cars and trucks miss each other on the highway, or the animals that may venture onto the strip of pavement, however, my son, Craig, works on these problems. His language is foreign to me, but his team works on self-driving vehicles, obstructions on the roadway, and he anticipates lives will be saved using this AI.
If the human brain can develop such technology, I am happy I am living to see it. My grandfather brought the first vehicle to our little farming town and I live to see the day of AI and no-human driving. My father lived to see a man walk on the moon.
The old Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times," which isn't Chinese nor is it a curse.
A Power Law Keeps the Brain’s Perceptions Balanced
Researchers have discovered a surprising mathematical relationship in the brain’s representations of sensory information, with possible applications to AI research.
A balancing act is not what the scientists initially set out to find. Their work began with a simpler question: Does the visual cortex represent various stimuli with many different response patterns, or does it use similar patterns over and over again? Researchers refer to the neural activity in the latter scenario as low-dimensional: The neural code associated with it would have a very limited vocabulary, but it would also be resilient to small perturbations in sensory inputs.
More on what they have found about our wonderful blob of cells that sit between our ears; but with some it is debatable.{hee hee}
Scientists Say Your “Mind” Isn’t Confined to Your Brain, or Even Your Body
Exploring how the mind extends beyond the physical self.
But what is a mind? Defining the concept is a surprisingly slippery task. The mind is the seat of consciousness, the essence of your being. Without a mind, you cannot be considered meaningfully alive. So what exactly, and where precisely, is it?
Neuroscientists gained several surprising insights into memory this year, including the discovery that the brain creates multiple copies of memories at once — even though it hides the long-term copy from our awareness at first
Susumu Tonegawa’s presence announces itself as soon as you walk through the door of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. A three-foot-high framed photograph of Tonegawa stands front and center in the high-ceilinged lobby, flanked by a screen playing a looping rainbow-hued clip of recent research highlights.
A new Understanding of the working of memory
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