“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a…
Many of us remember from our early years of learning biology that mitochondria are the ‘power…
It’s been 5 years since I finished my postdoc fellowship and left academia. All that time, I held onto a folder of research ideas scribbled on scraps of paper — but it’s time to let them go. So I’m giving them away!
Attribution of Output to a Particular Algorithm
At Cyrus we’re often asked who our biggest competitor is. The answer is simple:
This summer I wanted to work on an open source project for Google summer of code. While looking for projects I…
I am excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship for…
We need people who know how to handle chaos. Are you one of them?
A few months ago, I visited a museum in Berlin called “Topography of Terror.” The exhibits portray heinous crimes committed by Nazis…
The Hard Problem of Consciousness is a mystery with no clear solution in sight.
True, but sometimes things are just a matter of chance. For instance, is there any fine tuning going on when someone wins the lotto? It’s an extremely rare event, but it happened, so we’re talking about it. If it didn’t happen, we wouldn’t be talking about it.
I mean, after the fact, the probability of something happening is 1. It happened.
Theoretical physicists agonize quite a bit about “fine tuning”. But when there is a an almost…
You should be able to see the glow being emitted from by an black hole. While the black hole itself doesn’t produce any light, or reflect any light, hence its name, an active black hole chews up material and around the event horizon, there’s tons of heat and light (the accretion disk).
Blending essential oils can be as simple as combining 2 or 3 of your favorite oils…
As the Spring 2019 semester at Temple University winds down, the stress in the air at the College of Engineering is so thick that it…
It is everywhere in the news. And of course, it was only a matter of time before it showed up here.
Nature has an interesting way of organizing things. Let’s say we take a look at something as small as an atom of an element…
Groups of four people, either American college students or American adults participating online, were given some money.
The college studies aren’t great, in part because of the artificial kinship generated by shared college attendance. Many of these people likely knew each other as well.
I am happy to say that I was able to watch the live stream where they unveiled of the first image of a…
My inquiry question this week is, is science considered a religion. I am interested in learning more…
The anti-vaccination movement infuriates me. There’s the obvious reason of putting others at risk…
Hmm, I would say that better describes agnosticism though. If you are agnostic you state that the divine or supernatural is unknown or unknowable, so that is the neutral position. Like you say; you don’t hold a belief.
I get the same conclusion from your etymological example. “The etymology is simply the prefix “a-”…
Self-driving cars, remote robotic surgery, autonomous weapons — all that and much more is set to be delivered via the 5G wireless network, which promises to transform our lives and add trillions of dollars to the global economy every year.
