Posts Tagged ‘complexity’

The Complexity Science of Medicine Requires Freedom

In 1971 I was a first-year medical student, and I was struggling. We were studying Gross Anatomy and I just couldn’t seem to understand anything. At the time, a “regional approach” to anatomy was all the rage. We started dissecting the “posterior triangle of the neck” on our cadavers. Let me quote from a recent […]

Cosmology From Anthropic Principle to Irreducible Complexity And Beyond

Who Did It? Did God Do It? The very idea that the universe had a beginning was so troubling to Sir Fred Hoyle that when he was promoted to Lecturer in Mathematics at Cambridge in 1948, he published two papers on steady-state cosmology, in which he presented a serious alternative to the Big Bang theory […]

Full Moon In Taurus: Finding Simplicity In The Midst Of Complexity

Next Story We will enter the Full Moon phase of the lunar cycle on November 4th at 5:23am Universal Time. For those in the Western hemisphere, it will appear fullest on the night of November 3rd. During Full Moons, we experience a push-pull between two opposite signs, with the Moon sign tending to exert greater force. In […]

New study examines complexity of dolphin culture; researchers determine that brain size correlates with "human-like" behaviors and societies

(Natural News) In a major study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, the complexity of Cetacean culture and behavior has been linked to the size of their brains. Like other mammals, whales and dolphins have tightly-knit family groups called pods whereby they follow certain social structures and form complex relationships, similar to human societies. The research […]

Sheriff Threatens Lawmaker with Violence for Supporting Medical Cannabis Legislation

Image via The Free Thought Project Justin Gardner | The Free Thought Project Oakland County, MI — The battle over medical cannabis is heating up in Michigan, and some law enforcement figures are getting desperate to block progress. It seems that one county sheriff has even gone so far […]

Sheriff Threatens Lawmaker with Violence for Supporting Medical Cannabis Legislation

Image via The Free Thought Project Justin Gardner | The Free Thought Project Oakland County, MI — The battle over medical cannabis is heating up in Michigan, and some law enforcement figures are getting desperate to block progress. It seems that one county sheriff has even gone so far […]

Sheriff Threatens Lawmaker with Violence for Supporting Medical Cannabis Legislation

Image via The Free Thought Project Justin Gardner | The Free Thought Project Oakland County, MI — The battle over medical cannabis is heating up in Michigan, and some law enforcement figures are getting desperate to block progress. It seems that one county sheriff has even gone so far […]

Engineers reveal record-setting flexible phototransistor

Developed by UW-Madison electrical engineers, this unique phototransistor is flexible, yet faster and more responsive than any similar phototransistor in the world. Credit: Jung-Hun Seo Inspired by mammals’ eyes, University of Wisconsin-Madison electrical engineers have created the fastest, most responsive flexible silicon phototransistor ever made. The innovative phototransistor could improve the performance of myriad products—ranging […]

The Complexity of Newsgathering in Afghanistan

The complexity of newsgathering in Afghanistan    By Hanan Habibzai    INTRODUCTION The local communication is characterised by restricted media culture which involves ethnic and sectarian ideologies. In an environment where decades of conflicts destroyed everything, thinking style is consequently exaggerated one way or another. Therefore, the function of communication system and resources shape the […]

Complexity and why it’s hard to care about anything that isn’t rock and roll…

One of the loose collective of my friends — The Defeatist-Malcontent-Anarchist Slacker Collective and Bait Shop — a Vet who’s trying to get his band going in upstate New York doing kind of boogie rock with metal overtones, spends time he should spend doing something like picking up bottles for the return fee on a […]

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