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May 23, 2024

Ian Barbour — Why is Emergence Significant?

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Watch more videos on complexity and emergence: https://shorturl.at/QLrfUEmergence is how the world works differently at various levels or hierarchies of orga…

May 23, 2024

WileyK_NondestructiveMindUploadingAndTheStreamOfConsciousness_2023.pdf

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Nondestructive mind uploading and scan and copy.


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May 23, 2024

Long-Wear, Noise-Canceling, And Wireless: How Earphones Damage Our Hearing

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Earphones may be convenient, but convenience doesn’t come without a cost.

May 23, 2024

Something strange is happening with Earth’s magnetic field tail

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It’s called the magnetotail, of course.

May 22, 2024

A Rare Event Called A “Planetary Parade” Will Soon Take Over The Cosmos, See If You’re In The Path Of Totality

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Be sure to look at the night sky on June 3rd to see a somewhat rare event called a large ‘planetary parade.’

May 22, 2024

Women’s and men’s college graduation rates

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Two anecdotes and charts: Women’s and men’s college graduation rates.


Anecdote:

I gave an extra-credit assignment in one of my courses. The course had twenty students, eleven men and nine women. Six students chose to do the assignment — and then I noticed something in my grade book: all of them were women. Getting all statistic-y about it: 66.7% of the females were willing to do the extra work, while 0% if the men were.

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May 22, 2024

John Brockman

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editor of[Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI], talked about the future of artificial intelligence with two contributors to the book, David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett.

May 22, 2024

E93D9D10-8F2E-11EE-9992-848E0B983C7D.pdf

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Does thought require sensory grounding by David Chalmers.


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May 22, 2024

STIs, including syphilis, gonorrhea, increasing globally: WHO

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The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report Tuesday that found the number of sexually transmitted infections have increased around the world.

May 22, 2024

Solar storms that caused pretty auroras can create havoc with technology—here’s how

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At the weekend, millions of people around the world were treated to a mesmerizing display of the aurora borealis and aurora australis, better known as the northern and southern lights. The lights, usually seen in crown-like regions surrounding the Earth’s poles, were pushed to mid-latitudes by heightened activity from the sun.

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