I’m a long-time supporter and enthusiast of the FSF but I’m taken aback by what looks to me to be dangerous misdirection on the part of the FSF and I would like a reply, even if short, to my concern:
Apple’s general use of DRM is a mixed bag. In being a company that strives to [...]
Categories: Opinion, Science, Technology
A thought to be explored: it’s known that the brain fills in much missing sensory information to create the complete conscious experience in our minds. For example, our vision has a clarity spot the size of your thumbnail if held out at arm’s length, and everything else perceived around that is seen in far less detail. You [...]
Categories: Philosophy, Science
Tagged: Art, brain, creativity, evolution, hearing, Music, natural selection
New Scientist reports of a team of scientists led by Martin Buss at the Technical University of Munich who placed their a new robot, named ACE (Autonomous City Explorer) alone in acity and programmed it to find its way across 1.5km of urban terrain, by merely asking for directions.
The accomplishment is no small feat: robots require [...]
Categories: Science
Tagged: city, directions, experiment, friendly, humanity, mankind, robot
I was fascinated to read this article about an interesting psychological phenomenon called the “Overview Effect,” experienced sometimes by astronauts in orbit: Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell saw our planet outside the window and felt ‘a feeling of bliss, timelessness, and connectedness … becoming instantly and profoundly aware that each of his constituent atoms were connected to the fragile planet [...]
Categories: Science
Tagged: andy newburg, apollo 14, astronauts, edgar mitchell, harmony, neuroscience, psychology, space, unity