Algorithmic expression is not the classic, liberal model of speech. Instead, it is speech unmoored from personhood
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Nov2022 Title 3: Recommendation systems, machine expression & the nature of 'opinion': questioning the language of algorithms which 'define the ways we know the world in the 21st century'...
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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ay2022 Title 3: Tree species, biodiversity & the rainforests: the high regard of N scientific knowledge emerges from the ability of experts to discern what's unknown from the known...
Uncertainty is uncomfortable. It is only natural to want certainty. It is more comfortable to be certain and wrong than to be uncertain. Like anyone else, I would like to be comfortable, but I think truth matters. I’d rather be uncertain than wrong; wouldn’t you? As Voltaire said, “Uncertaint
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May2022 Title 3: Medical science, truth & the degrees of certainty: In what ways is the high regard of applied scientific knowledge is built on a foundation of error, imperfection & uncertainty...
Illustration: Marian Bantjes “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we have? Only models, from cosmological equations to theories of human behavior, seemed to be able to consistently, if imperfectly, explain the world around us. Until now. Today companies […]
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May2022 Title 3: The Petabyte Age, correlation matters & the limits of the scientific method: the reputation of science expands as new AI tech enables unprecedented levels of progress in scientific knowledge...
Rediscovering looted or supposedly lost art objects is one of the key objectives why Arthur Brand often goes undercover, endangering himself.
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May2022 Title 3: Persistence, curiosity & the will to learn: how the application of historical knowledge can help rediscover the past & help solve mysteries in the world of art...
Computational social science is a powerful research tool. But it needs its different disciplines to find a common language.
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May2022 Titles 3, 5 & 6: Computational social science, surveillance culture & an interdisciplinary approaches: how AI generated datasets enhance expert interpretations of human behaviour but the process needs regulation to allow acceptable investigation into personal information...
The collaborative project "Resurrecting the Sublime" aimed to recreate the scents of extinct flowers, evoking feelings of the sublime.
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May2022 Title 3: Conservation, colonisation & the role of new technologies: how collaboration between the know-how of artists & biologists led to an 'expression of the unknowable'...
Arthur Brooks and the Harvard psychology professor Dr. Ellen Langer discuss the importance of curiosity and living in the moment—and how an illusion of stability may be holding you back from exactly that.
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May2022 Title 3: Mindfulness, the power of the present moment & day-tight compartments: practical application of H Scientific knowledge justifies why it should be held in high regard...
Science just gives facts. Our sense of meaning, in the big-picture, must derive from elsewhere. Right? Wrong. Below are 10 sublime wonders of science, to make your mind reel and your emotions swell.
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May2022 Title 3: Science facts & the meaning of life: some justifications for why N Scientific knowledge should be highly regarded even when experts reach the limits of what they can know...
The Himba people of Namibia can see fine details and ignore distraction much better than most other human beings – a finding that may reflect the ways that modern life is changing us.
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May2022 Title 2: The Himba tribe, perception & 'carpentered corners': TWE does our modern lifestyle exaggerate the world of difference we see between truth and facts?
A. C. Grayling is one of the foremost minds of his generation and his new book explores some of the biggest questions that face humanity. What do we know, how do we know it and what is left t
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May2022 Title 3: Mind/brain, knowledge adventures & the history of History: how an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge measn that no AOK can be held in higher regard than another...
Scientists want a super-computer powerful enough to accurately project the most damaging extremes.
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May 2022 Title 3: Climate science, a new 'Bible' & underestimating future disasters: for all the justifications for holding N Sciences in high regards, there are practical limitations to its predictive capacity...Solutions are suggested.
Este artículo es refiere al cambio climático y los principales científicos del clima que han admitido que no pudieron predecir la intensidad de las inundaciones alemanas y el domo de calor de América del Norte.
Han advertido correctamente durante décadas que un clima de calentamiento rápido traería peores ráfagas de lluvia y olas de calor más dañinas.
REFERENCIA BIBLIOGRÁFICA:
Harrabin R. (2020) Cambio climático: la ciencia no pudo predecir la intensidad de las inundaciones y el calor. Analista medioambiental de la BBC.
Christopher Havens came upon his love of math while in solitary confinement. A decade later, he published a paper on number theory in a top mathematics journal.
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May2022 Title 3: Prison education, continued fractions & modern cryptography: how math knowledge can be life saving during a life sentence...
Few discoveries can have brought such far-reaching benefits for humanity as X-rays
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May2022 Title 3: Roentgen's X-rays, scientific serendipity & progress: how the reputation of N Scientific knowledge is enhanced by the practical application of it to save lives...
While the scientific consensus on GMOs is clear, there is still plenty of work to do to reassure the public that biotechnology can be trusted.
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May2022 Title 3: GMOs, Nirvana fallacy & lack of scientific knowledge: Exploring why non-experts maintain distrustful of the reputation of natural scientific knowledge.
From once being hailed as a visionary, to being found guilty of fraud, the Guardian looks back at how Elizabeth Holmes' rhetoric changed as her company sank
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May2022 Titles 3 & 6: Theranos, scientific fraud & ethical boundaries: When experts breach ethical boundaries, TWE does this hinder the overall reputation of natural scientific knowledge?
Ötzi the Iceman is the modern nickname of a well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, found in 1991 in a glacier of the Otzta
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May2022 Title 3: Anthropology, archaeobotany & paleometallurgy: how highly regarded knowledge from a range of areas came together to solve a very cold case of murder... (54 mins documentary)
Historians believe that the past is irreducibly complex and the future wildly unpredictable. Scientists disagree. Who’s right?
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May2022 Titles 3 & 4: Big history, ‘cliodynamics’ & 'cliometrics': Explaining why making History more scientific needs to be balanced by retaining its more subjective, storytelling elements...
Throughout the modern world trust in science has continued to erode at dangerous speeds. From anti-vaxxers to climate change deniers, there is an ever growing movement of people that deny science at the peril of us all. The shift towards a public with increasing lack of scientific literacy and
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May2022 Q3: Science literacy, science denial & critical thinking: exploring the 'solid justifications' for not holding scientific knowledge in high regard...
We can’t edit tweets, but we can edit our own DNA.
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May2022 Titles 3 & 6: CRISPR tech, gene supermarkets & the scientific method: how to walk the along the edge of the ethical line which separates acceptable from unacceptable ethical scientific investigations.
Researchers have published maps indicating how the auroral zone has moved over the last three millennia.
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May2022 Title 3: 'The Poetic Edda', 'The King's Mirror' & the Kyoto aurora: How statistical mathematicians bring together disparate knowledge from different AOKs to build a map of the auroral zone...
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