Machine learning can translate between two known languages, but could it ever decipher those that remain a mystery to us?
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May 2022 Title 1: The 'Indus script', information entropy & deep learning AI: How machines can help discover cultural knowledge coded in ancient languages...
Laurie Taylor explores the meaning and purpose of public sociology with Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley
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May2022: Title 1: Public sociology, academic sociology & social scientists: how knowledge of cultures & sub-cultures is dependent on immersing oneself in lived experiences & being committed to some moral foundations...
The Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, that country’s major scientific funding organization, is developing a comprehensive research plan, called NSERC 2030, to guide its priorities over the next decade. In the current phase, NSERC is engaging with external stakeholders through a series of discussion papers aimed
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May2022 Title 1: Diversity, fair access & 'scientific activism': Explaining how the pursuit of natural scientific knowledge is (and should be) determined by the cultural values of the present...
The writer’s "Foundation" series, recently adapted into a show by Apple TV, was inspired by a fascinating, real-life academic discipline.
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May2022 Title 1: Mathematical Sociology, Psychohistory & cliodynamics: exploring the idea that traces of our knowledge of the future can be found in our knowledge of the past and present...
Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 02 June 2021
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May2022 Title 1: Bone markings, number language & interdisciplinary research: explaining how our knowledge of numbers evolved through cultural habits & practices (first 8 minutes of podcast)...
Our universe is painted with numbers, says Marcus du Sautoy. Mathematical patterns are a universal feature of the natural world...
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May2022 Title 1: From flower petals & snail shells to honeycombs & beyond: TWE are the math descriptions of patterns inherent in nature independent of culture?
By: Keith Devlin @profkeithdevlin The following statement appeared on Twitter recently: “The idea of 2 + 2 being 4 is cultural and because of western imperialism/colonization, we think of it as the only way of knowing.” It was actually part of a discussion amon
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May2022 Title 1: 2 + 2, absolute certainties & the six activities of modern Maths: experts think that math knowledge is independent of culture, because they 'are in that culture'...
You've probably noticed that it's very difficult to write a character who is extremely intelligent in some way. It's easy to make a character knowledgeable, because you can just put a l
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May2022 Title 1: Holmesian skepticism & Vulcan Philosophy: how fictional characters portrayed as 'knowing everything' reflect aspects of our culture...
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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May2022 Title 1: Terror management theory, existential dread & the anthropic principle: TWE is the most abstract scientific knowledge always dependent on a specific cultural context?
Archaeological finds suggest that people developed numbers tens of thousands of years ago. Scholars are now exploring the first detailed hypotheses about this life-changing invention.
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May2021 Title 1: Les Pradelles bone, 'quantical'/'numerical' thinking & 'cultural exaptations': Exploring the idea that some math knowledge emerged before the emergence of human culture...
Since Newton, we have assumed that the universe is governed by unchanging laws, and Stephen Hawking once even argued that we were close to uncovering them in their entirety. But are these laws really eternal features of the universe? If so, how do they emerge and how do they act? Or are they merely human ways of codifying the world, which remains somehow unknowable and inexplicable?
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May2022 Title 1: Newton, Hawking & the how nature works: TWE is knowledge of the laws of nature independent of culture? (44 mins)
Music is often labelled a “universal language,” and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that.
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May2022 Title 1: Schopenhauer's 'Will', suffering & the purpose of art: How does musical knowledge become a universal language expressing the 'set of interrelated metaphysical laws'?
This first day of the European Congress of Mathematics (ECM), which took place in Slovenia in June 2021, mathematically captured hearts and minds. Betül Tanbay, who introduced the public lecture by Kathryn Hess at the end of that day, noted that the first lecture of the day had been on mathematical modelling of our hearts. And Hess's lecture was a "mathematical mystery tour of the marvellous intricacy of the brain". We enjoyed Hess's tour so much, we wanted to share some of the ideas from her lecture with you!
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May2022 Title 1: Blue Brain Project, dimension reduction & stochastic algorithms: how math allows us to gain knowledge of nature's complexity...
Look beneath the surface of Bach’s music and you will find a fascinating hidden world of numerology and cunning craft
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May2022 Title 1: Voyager, 'The Golden Record' & Bach's works: How musical knowledge born of a particular culture can seem to be 'transcendent, timeless, and not of this world'...
May2022 Title 1: 'The empty set', bee minds & the symbolic value of nothing: knowledge of the number 'zero' is dependent on culture but allows us to think & know about things beyond culture...
Radoslav Rochallyi discusses a new type of concrete poetry called Equation Poetry, which uses mathematical language as an organizational principle.
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May2022 Title 1: Math symbols, symmetry & Equation Poetry: how to use the constraints of abstract math patterns to express something deeply cultural...
Mathematics is like nothing else. The truths of math seem to be unrelated to anything else—independent of human beings, independent of the universe. The sum of 2 + 3 = 5 cannot be untrue; this means that 2 + 3 = 5 would be true even if there were never any human beings, even if there were never a universe! When then, deeply, is mathematics?
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May2022 Title 1: Infinity, harmony & math truths: TWE is math knowledge independent of culture...and the universe?
The mathematical systems of ancient cultures are still relevant and used today, and can enhance our understanding of maths – and ourselves.
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May2022 Title 1: Ethnomathematics, The Dresden Codex & visuospatial reasoning: how some fundamental principles of math knowledge emerge from non-Western cultural contexts...
What transpires in comedies and cartoons when a character has a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is not far off from people's perceptions of the real world, finds a new study.
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May2022 Title 1: Angels, demons & our sense of good & evil: even our knowledge of supernatural beings seems to be dependent on our cultural experiences of other people...
Andrew Beveridge's analysis of the character interactions in Game of Thrones describes how we can visualise contexts & connections
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May 2022 Title 1: Natural networks, models of interconnection & the H Sciences: how some knowledge appears to go beyond culture in the form of 'universal laws guiding networked behavior'...
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