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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Dudes engineered macro-scale quantum behavior a la Schrödinger’s Cat Neandertal genome sequenced AIDS cure on the way? a dozen rare diseases isolated in genome quantum simulator — like a quantum processing unit progress on protein folding 1,000 Genomes RNA reprogramming lab rat genomics This Decade in Scientific Breakthroughs junk DNA ≠ junk
This Year In Science
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Local characteristic times are at least 1 millisecond, and the speed of propagation of the nervous influx is between 1 and 100 meters per second, so that times of O(100 milliseconds) are easily reached.
The human brain is a highly connected net of 10¹⁰ neurons.
The methods of topology, when applied to cultural analysis, provide a rigorous, yet unabashedly humble investigation of the nature of cultural relationships.
—Brent M. Blackwell
Topology as a tool for Postmodern Philosophy
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Circles
A circle is made up of points equidistant from the center. But what does “equidistant” mean? Measuring distance implies a value judgment — for example, that moving to the left is just the same as moving to the right, moving forward … Continue reading
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The True Size of Africa Maybe during the 21st century, maybe during the 22nd — sometime in the future economic growth will change the face of global culture by bringing in all of these places. I think we in the … Continue reading
Human Mathematics 