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It’s All in Your Head: Physical Laws and the Free Energy Principle
It’s All in Your Head: Physical Laws and the Free Energy Principle
While physical reality exists independently of observers, physical models — along with their mathematics, causes, and effects — are…
Francesco De Bernardis
Feb 11
Submission Guidelines for the Quantastic Journal
Submission Guidelines for the Quantastic Journal
Join the Quantastic Writers’ Circle and Submit Your Story!
Sam Vaseghi
Jun 26, 2024
In Math, Sometimes it’s Easier to Make Things Harder
In Math, Sometimes it’s Easier to Make Things Harder
Three Examples of Solving a Problem by Adding Complexity
Paolo Molignini, PhD
Feb 9
Relativity on a Merry Go Round and the Accuratest Gyroscope of All Time
Relativity on a Merry Go Round and the Accuratest Gyroscope of All ...
The connected topics of the Unparadoxical Ehrenfest "Paradox", Born Rigidity with its Relativity Enforced Squidge and the Sagnac Effect…
Selena Routley
Feb 4
There Are Cost-Effective and Science-Based Ways to Stop Drug Overdose Deaths
There Are Cost-Effective and Science-Based Ways to Stop Drug Overdo...
You don’t have to crash the economy or go to war to do something about fentanyl overdoses and deaths in the United States.
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Feb 5
The Drunkard’s Walk: The Mathematics of Getting Lost
The Drunkard’s Walk: The Mathematics of Getting Lost
What a Drunkard, a Photon, and a Gambler Have in Common
Chaipat Tirapongprasert
Feb 6
Why ‘Entropy’ Is So Special in Special Relativity?-On the Interrelational Manifestation of… Reality
Why ‘Entropy’ Is So Special in Special Relativity?-On the Interrelational Manifestation of… Reality
“It is about the deep fundamental significance of the invariance of the Liouville stochastic expanse and the interrelationality of maximum…
Sam Vaseghi
Feb 3
What Is Our Responsibility to Victims of Unethical Medical Experimentation?
What Is Our Responsibility to Victims of Unethical Medical Experimentation?
Can we learn from other people’s suffering? Yes, but not in a way that legitimizes those who made them suffer.
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Jan 29
A Gentle Introduction to Gaussian Discriminant Analysis: Gaussian Naive Bayes, Linear Discriminant…
A Gentle Introduction to Gaussian Discriminant Analysis: Gaussian Naive Bayes, Linear Discriminant…
To understand Gaussian discriminant analysis deeply based on the mathematics and a Python implementation from scratch
Yuki Shizuya
Jan 27
The Surveyors of Existence Itself
The Surveyors of Existence Itself
The Nineteenth Century Geometers reasoned and studied astounding possibilities for the nature of space itself. Physics at last awakened to…
Selena Routley
Jan 26
Greenland Calling: Beware of Map Projections. Be Aware of Them.
Greenland Calling: Beware of Map Projections. Be Aware of Them.
What kind of map will we be looking at when someone thinks about “buying Greenland”?
Jim Fonseca
Jan 25
Explorations of Infant Vision — How Do We Ask Infants What They Can See?
Explorations of Infant Vision — How Do We Ask Infants What They Can See?
and what implications, does this have for understanding optical and neural development of the visual system?
Ronald Boothe
Jan 24
Radical New Notions of Empty Space
Radical New Notions of Empty Space
Our conception of the most fundamental layer of existence in modern science, mathematics and philosophy became vastly richer in the…
Selena Routley
Jan 22
The Science of Trump: Return to Anti-Science — Split by Clientelism to Reign by Patronage
The Science of Trump: Return to Anti-Science — Split by Clientelism to Reign by Patronage
Potential ambitions of the Trump administration send alarming signals to the scientific community, supporting clientelism and suggesting…
Sam Vaseghi
Jan 21
So, You’re a Public Health Worker and Want to Engage with Your Community?
So, You’re a Public Health Worker and Want to Engage with Your Community?
There’s an art to telling the public what’s good and what isn’t.
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Jan 21
Spirituality Has a Biological Basis Because Humans Have Brains
Spirituality Has a Biological Basis Because Humans Have Brains
What does the evidence about spirituality say so far and can it tell us why it’s pervasive across human societies?
Mitchell Diamond
Jan 21
Tree Bark: The Beauty and Importance of Nature’s Skin
Tree Bark: The Beauty and Importance of Nature’s Skin
Scientists have only scratched the surface of this topic
Elaine Medline
Jan 17
The Calculus of Combinators: It Is Possible to Derive All Mathematics, With S and K Only
The Calculus of Combinators: It Is Possible to Derive All Mathematics, With S and K Only
On Schönfinkel-Curry’s Theory of Everything for Mathematics
Peter Ripota
Jan 13
Scientists Call for Restrictions to Prevent a Parallel Mirror-World from Taking Over the Living…
Scientists Call for Restrictions to Prevent a Parallel Mirror-World from Taking Over the Living…
At the end of this script, life is rebooted on earth, as a mirror image of the old biology…
E. Samuel
Jan 12
Choose Your Own Apocalypse: Which Scenario Will Humanity Embrace?
Choose Your Own Apocalypse: Which Scenario Will Humanity Embrace?
From extermination to limitless expansion, humanity has choices. Whether we make the right one is yet to be determined.
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Jan 11
Minkowski’s Magic, Moving Magnets and Conductors
Minkowski’s Magic, Moving Magnets and Conductors
Einstein’s Special Relativity "officially" resolved the famous 19th Century moving magnet/ conductor and charge conundrum. But his "answer"…
Selena Routley
Jan 8
The Fantastic World of the Underground: How Mycorrhizae Fungi Makes Us Understand Interconnected…
The Fantastic World of the Underground: How Mycorrhizae Fungi Makes Us Understand Interconnected…
We neither see nor hear them, yet they exist.
Luciano Rivas
Jan 7
Untangling tangled online ideas about Relativity: Why Isn’t Kinetic Energy "Relative" if Velocity…
Untangling tangled online ideas about Relativity: Why Isn’t Kinetic Energy "Relative" if Velocity…
Again: no, not everything is "relative" in modern physics
Selena Routley
Jan 4
Quantum Mechanics is Really “Relational” And Not An “Objective Collapse Theory”
Quantum Mechanics is Really “Relational” And Not An “Objective Collapse Theory”
Different observers can describe the same system in fundamentally different ways, yet quantum mechanics ensures that predictions made from…
艾米心amihart
Jan 3
Folic Acid in Bread: The One Public Health Intervention No One Has Boycotted… Yet?
Folic Acid in Bread: The One Public Health Intervention No One Has Boycotted… Yet?
You’ve probably heard of “enriched flour,” but do you know why it is enriched, and with what?
René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Jan 3
American Ingenuity Beat the Polio Outbreak—So Why Risk Letting It Return?
American Ingenuity Beat the Polio Outbreak—So Why Risk Letting It Return?
We should, none of us, consent to going back to the past…
Brandy L Schillace
Jan 2
Betting Against The Boxes: A Case Study That Challenges Decision Theory
Betting Against The Boxes: A Case Study That Challenges Decision Theory
Expected Utility Maximization, Causal Decision Theory, and Strategic Dominance
Chaipat Tirapongprasert
Dec 31, 2024
Humanity’s Choice: Two Tales of Destruction and One of Growth
Humanity’s Choice: Two Tales of Destruction and One of Growth
Stories and lessons from three plants of the UW greenhouse/lab
Alyson Lang
Dec 30, 2024
Learning History Matters: Advocating for Interdisciplinary Learning
Learning History Matters: Advocating for Interdisciplinary Learning
Students in history classes often feel disconnected from the material. Aside from history majors, most students view intro-level history…
Adam J. Hasewinkle
Dec 29, 2024
Scientific Journals Are Flooded with Texts Written by AI — Is the Solution to Let AI Read Them Too?
Scientific Journals Are Flooded with Texts Written by AI — Is the Solution to Let AI Read Them Too?
Could the scientific conclusions you have just read in a journal paper be completely bogus? A recent journalistic report published in…
E. Samuel
Dec 28, 2024
A Faster Than Light Universe!
A Faster Than Light Universe!
A recent lecture on supraluminal motion
Selena Routley
Dec 28, 2024
No, Hans Solo, Chewbacca and the Millennium Falcon REALLY COULD Make the Kessel Run in Twelve…
No, Hans Solo, Chewbacca and the Millennium Falcon REALLY COULD Make the Kessel Run in Twelve…
Listen up, all you skumbag tendentious movie science "correctors". That famous line, that all "science afficianados" love to mock, is NOT…
Selena Routley
Dec 25, 2024
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