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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Kind of sad that you are left with that impression. I would attribute the style more to our over-polarized conditioning by social media if anything. But beyond the trigger points the author gives you enough of "depolarizing" refer
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These superficial debates are in my eyes futile since they presuppose: "We ought to have a strict curriculum for a certain narrow age group." After what we have learned the last 30-50 years from cognitive sciences one has to wonde
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Shoshana Zuboff's book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" [1] at times glances over some important technicalities but its eloboration on the social impact and consequences I found to be spot on. Here an excerpt from Chapter
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Video games with its interactive possibilites possess a unique mechanic device which books or movies simply don't have. So, in a way stories in a game do not serve the same purpose. And if you delve deep into literary theory itself; &q
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
The "dark star" hypothesis given a finite speed and momentum of light (particle nature) combining with the escape velocity of stars isn't impressive by itself. But his scientific reasoning and methods very much so. He careful
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Strictly speaking it is just our moon not "interplanetary" space travel. So from a marketing/technology perspective Mars is far more attractive and a greater engineering challenge. The moon is a "boring" enterprise
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This the reason why photons have no rest mass. And you having a rest mass cannot ever reach the actual speed of light, only a factor of <1. If you were to travel with 95% of the speed of light your rest mass would increase by 3.2x ... at
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Some oxiditation (1%) of Hb (Fe 2+) to metHb (Fe 3+) is normal, it gets reduced back by the enzyme Cytochrome b5 reductase. So far so good. But since metHb is dysfunctional and cannot bind oxygen and you need levels of at least 10% metHb to
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
I try to summarize leaving out explicit statements about Covid: - a significant portion of the US-Population (my remark: similar to other western countries) is not willing to take the shot - a huge proportion of which are underprivileged, f
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
As with the NP for Med/Physio it is unfortunate that the trope of "saving the planet" has such a vile revival. And if I'm not for the one team I'm for the other. Irrespective of that this years NP in Physics is an a
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Before it gets hijacked by zealots on both side in saving or depopulating the planet. It was a quite conservative pick given the complexities and interwovenness of discoveries in a given field: Citation Index and some fundamental property (
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by dav_Oz 5y ago
Sorry, I should have mentioned some resources: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.0002... What I meant is a possibly unprocessed psychedelic experience which you are unable to integrate in you
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Psychedelics are highly dependent on set/setting, there is no inherent quality in them to open you up for a specific worldview. From a systems/information theory view they reliably induce significantly more possible "states&q
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It is telling that one has to roughly estimate Trillions of Wealth in Thousand of Milions in Dollars the Top 0.01 or Top 400 Invidiuals have (is it one quarter or one third of the 0.01 percent?) but at the "Bottom" - say 90% - it
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by dav_Oz 6y ago
In one of Plato's Dialogues "The Phaedrus" Socrates argues about writing as following (@ section 274c by invoking the Egyptian Myth of the God Theuth inventing "letters"): "[275a ...] For this invention will pr
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by dav_Oz 6y ago
I've heard about that, thanks for pointing that out. It can get quite complex when you begin to consider a main mechanism in antibiotic resistance: information flow between other species of bacteria (horizontal gene transfer) + Viruses
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by dav_Oz 6y ago
Am I "captain obvious" in pointing out that one of the viruses is a bacteriophage? They actually help us (Eukaryotes, broadly) a lot in containing the spread of bacteria. Maybe in the future our only help in dealing with multi-re