Tag: paradox
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Happy new irrational year! With health and disease! With love and misery…
Happy new year! We don’t know who we are. We don’t know why we are here. We don’t know what death is. (And yet we crave for life…) We are happy only because we cry. (And yet we crave for bliss…) We seek health. (And yet it is the pain that makes us think) Deeply…
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Seeing better. And better. And better. Until we see nothing at all…
A few years ago, a team of scientists at EPFL’s Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, headed by Aleksandra Radenovic in the School of Engineering, developed an algorithm that can estimate a microscope’s resolution in just a few seconds based on a single image. The algorithm’s result indicates how closely a microscope is operating to its full…
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Quantum… time? Quantum… cosmos?!
An international group of physicists led by Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Vienna and University of Queensland reveal the quantum properties of time, whereby the flow of time doesn’t observe a straight arrow forward, but one where cause and effect can co-exist both in the forward and backward direction. To show this scenario, researchers…
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Electricity, light, Dionysus…
Political favoritism can quite literally be seen from space, according to a new study that finds the home regions of leaders become brighter at night after the person comes to power. The findings apply mostly to countries with weak political institutions and limited public education. One prominent example was Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of…
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Schizophrenia. Voices. Being “logical”.
Scientists have identified problems in a connection between brain structures that may predispose individuals to hearing the ‘voices’ that are a common symptom of schizophrenia. Researchers linked the problem to a gene deletion. This leads to changes in brain chemistry that reduce the flow of information between two brain structures involved in processing auditory information.…
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