When people become over-invested in their beliefs, they can develop intellectual photophobia: an active resistence to any evidence that might shed uncomfortable light
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Nov2022 Title 1: Photophobia, Hydroxymectin & hierarchies of evidence: the need to design randomised clinical trials that prioritise credible results over quick fixes...
Traditional ecological knowledge, or TEK, can encompass science, medicine, ecology, religion and culture – and help protect the environment.
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Nov2022 Title 1: Conservation, trust & 'traditional ecological knowledge': Anthropology underlines a powerful insight into environmental resource management through studies of indigenous cultures.
I’m an anthropologist and rarely have I seen such a harmful mix of inaccuracies and stereotypes about Indigenous people.
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Nov2022 Title 1 Hadza tribe, the noble savage myth & what it means to be human: redressing the credibility of our H Scientific knowledge about indigenous peoples...
An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Marcel Duchamp to ancient Chinese ceramics—and why Romanticism is not for him
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Nov2022 Title 1: Ai Wei Wei, incarceration & artistic activism: explaining one artist's view on the power of art to speak out against 'attacks on freedom and manifold other human rights abuses'...
A new study by a team of researchers from Israel and Ghana has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes, challenging a core assumption at the heart of evolutionary theory by showing a long-term directional mutational response to environmental pressure. Using a novel method, researchers led by Professor Adi Livnat from the University of Haifa showed that the rate of generation of the HbS mutation, which protects against malaria, is higher in people from Africa, where malaria is endemic, than in people from Europe, where it is not.
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Nov2022 Title 1: Malaria, evolution theory & non-random mutations: the power of N Scientific knowledge is in refining earlier theories as a way of creating progress...
Correct information doesn’t always come with its own bright halo of truth. What makes something worth believing?
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Nov2022 Title 1: Epistemology, justification and a 'certificate of authenticity': explaining the nature of 'credibility' from a philosophical perspective...
Philosopher Nick Bostrom's "singleton hypothesis" predicts the future of human societies. It says that intelligent life on Earth will eventually form a "singleton," which could be a single government or an artificial intelligence that runs everything. Whether the singleton will be positive or negative depends on numerous factors.
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May 2021 Title 2: 'Singleton' hypothesis, mind-control tech & molecular nanotech: TWE is the predictive power of a hypothesis a reliable criterion for differentiating between change and progress?
What counts as knowledge? Answers differ in different times and places, and even in a single time and place there are multiple paths for knowledge seekers.
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May2021 Q2: Polymaths, the 'Leonardo Syndrome' & increased knowledge specialisation: sometimes it's hard to differentiate change from progress when our cultural context itself changes...
Este articulo me parece interesante porque los tiempos cambian en todo sentido, por ejemplo en la docencia de un momento a otro todo se volvió virtual y para muchos es difícil aceptar y aprender la nueva realidad, es un reto para los docentes adquirir nuevas habilidades y competencias.
In the 1980s, as China was modernizing, they ran into a problem. There was no way to fit their 70,000 plus character language on a QWERTY keyboard. Today, the story of how they did it.
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May 2021 Title 2: Wubi keyboard, 'The Periodic Table of the Chinese language' & Pinyin : how a paradigm shift typewriting tech helped save the Chinese language and culture...
One way to differentiate between ‘change’ and ‘progress’ is to think of whether or not a change in knowledge is goal orientated. For example, when Fleming discovered penicillin, scientists would eventually talk of Fleming’s breakthrough as real ‘medica
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May2021 Title 2: Historical & mythical eschatologies: a sense of the 'end' of time can shape how we differentiate between religious change and progress...
Detailed computer simulations have found that a cosmic contraction can generate features of the universe that we observe today.
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May2021 Title 2: From the Inflation to the cyclic model of the universe. AI simulations help determine how stories of the origins of life change over time...
Progress Roundtable As an increasing number of think tanks, public intellectuals, and public policy scholars turn their attention to the question of Progress, we decided to ask several of these leading thinkers a few questions about their thoughts on the topic. Matt Clancy, Senior Innovation Economist at the Institute for Progress. Creator of New Things […]
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Nov2022 Title 1: Flourishing, wellbeing & potential: different points of view on what progress is & the barriers that limit its scope and power to change things for the better.
Explore our surprisingly simple, absurdly ambitious and necessarily incomplete guide to the boundless mathematical universe.
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Nov2022 Title 1: From numbers to strange geometries: how using a map is a powerful tool to visualise the 'poetry of logical ideas' within math knowledge...
The colour violet was largely missing from art before the Impressionists, and is seen differently by different cultures. Why?
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Nov2022 Title 1: Impressionism, violelttomania & 'light switch theory': explanations of how we see colours are more credible when made through an evolutionary perspective...
Scientists find a sub-atomic particle's mass is at odds with one a theory underpinning modern physics.
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Nov2022 Title 1: Fermilab, a fifth force of nature & paradigm shifts: N Scientific knowledge is on the edge of providing a more complete and powerful explanation of how the Universe works...
Look to the science' was the call from politicians and the public alike throughout the pandemic.
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nov2022 Q1 Trusting science, 'absolute truth' & objectivity: Exploring different POVs on whether credibility of knowledge is more important than powerful applications in N Sciences...
A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team led by the University of Birmingham.
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Nov2022 Title 1: Kepler-16B, circumbinary planets & the radial velocity method: how ground based telescopes can still have powerful applications in making astronomical discoveries.
In the superheated corona, the spacecraft was 'flying into the eye of a storm,' NASA says
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Nov2022 Title 1: The Parker Solar Probe, solar winds & corona pseudostreamers: gaining credible knowledge about how the sun works helps 'better make predictions about space weather...
New research confirms Einstein's theory of gravity but brings scientists a step closer to the day when it might be supplanted by something new.
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May2021 Title 2: Mercury's wobble, black holes & a challenge to Relativity Theory: seeking to explain 'anomalies' can help to differentiate between change in scientific knowledge & revolutionising science itself...
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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May2021 Titles 2 & 4: LIGO-VIRGO, black-hole mergers & the progress of astrophysical knowledge: new observational data reveals a new way of understanding the universe...
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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May2021 Title 2: Bird brains, 3D-PLI & challenging 'primate exceptionalism': how the advent of new tech allows experts to make advances in scientific knowledge.
For decades, the idea of a language instinct has dominated linguistics. It is simple, powerful and completely wrong
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May2021 Title 2: Language instinct, universal grammar & the role of trial & error in language use: new evidence forces a change in our knowledge of the origins of language.
Rather than “just another” brain map, the Julich-Brain atlas is like a neuromapping API—one that could unite old brain-mapping efforts with modern methods.
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May2021 Titles 2 & 5: From the Brodmann Map to the Julich-Brain Atlas & cytoarchitecture: how a combination of H Sciences & digital tech leads to progress in neuroscientific knowledge.
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