How to Escape From a Black Hole

The size of the universe is determined by the laws of nature. Where these laws end, at the boundary, the universe ends, space itself ends - nothing can exist beyond the border. All the matter and energy that strike the boundary are absorbed. At the same time new massless matter is created to replace the absorbed matter.

One of the most famous figures in psychology is the following:

Balzan Prize winners and scholars from all over the world to debate: "TRUTH, IN THE HUMANITIES, SCIENCES AND RELIGION".

Lugano, May 15 2008 - Is truth absolute, or do we decide what is true based on culture, knowledge and our belief system? These engaging questions are the subject of the 2008 Symposium of the International Balzan Foundation, entitled: "Truth in the Humanities, Science and Religion". This prestigious event will be taking place on May 16-17, 2008 in the Auditorium of the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano (Switzerland).

How advanced IS chemistry these days?

The moral of the following story is that philosophy is great, but check with a lawyer before applying it to the real world.

A federal court is hearing a case in which the plaintiffs believe that mercury in childhood vaccines led to their children's autism, according to a Reuters story.

After my first foray into computational simulations successfully predicted that losses should loom larger than gains, at least when the stakes are high, I decided to take on an even more complicated phenomenon in psychology and economics: risk aversion.

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Human Imagination' has allowed mankind to delve into the secrets of the universe - to behold the wonders of the nature. It is our Special Sense - it created the "Mind" of mankind!
This "seventh sense" gives humans the ability to visualize things within our mind that has not yet occurred or may never occur - to imagine. It is not vital to our survival - the Neanderthals survived remarkably well without this "seventh sense".

Here is another insightful experiment from Tversky and Kahneman:

In a discussion of flight training, experienced instructors noted that praise for an exceptionally smooth landing is typically followed by a poorer landing on the next try, while harsh criticism after a rough landing is usually followed by an improvement on the next try. The instructors concluded that verbal rewards are detrimental to learning, while verbal punishments are beneficial.

It's not clear from the description whether the instructors considered whether their lesson plan would be beneficial to morale, but in any case, they were almost certainly wrong.

Ever since Copernicus placed the Sun at the center of the universe instead of the Earth, scientific discoveries have been repeatedly making our home planet less special and more ordinary. But could the "principle of mediocrity" turn out to be wrong in one critical recent discovery--dark energy--and could that discovery really mean something other than what physicists have suggested?

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Commonly, gene transfer is thought of as a vertical line from parent to offspring, along which all evolutionary traits are passed. However, as we began delving into genomic sequences, we found that this may not be true and that the lines between "species," especially on the microbial level, are quite fuzzy.

When Drew Endy envisions the future, he sees giant gourds engineered to grow into four-bedroom, two-bathroom houses. He sees people alerted to nascent tumors in their bodies by internal biological sensors, and cars fueled by bacteria-produced gasoline. Endy, 37, is a pioneer in synthetic biology, a field that combines biology, chemistry, and engineering to remake biological systems to act according to human design. In other words, he’s a little like God, if God were a geek.