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The human mind has long grappled with the elusive nature of time: what it is, how to record it, how it regulates life, and whether it exists as a fundamental building block of the universe. This timeline traces our evolving understanding of time through a history of observations in CULTURE, PHYSICS, TIMEKEEPING and BIOLOGY.
Australia’s first inhabitants, the ancestors of today’s aboriginal peoples, are believed to have embraced a timeless view of nature, in which the present and past are intimately connected. The spirits of long-dead ancestors, for example, were believed to inhabit the living. These spirits reflected a long-ago golden age sometimes known as the Dreamtime.
Feb 7, 2023
NASA to test nuclear rocket engine that could take humans to Mars in 45 days
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: nuclear energy, space travel
Feb 7, 2023
Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: mapping, robotics/AI
Feb 7, 2023
NASA scientists ‘weigh’ a white dwarf for the first time using a space-time trick predicted by Einstein
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: space
NASA astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the mass of a white dwarf, an important step for understanding how stars die.
Feb 7, 2023
‘1-In-10-Billion’ Star System is Doomed to Explode in a Fiery Kilonova
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: space
Scientists have discovered an extremely rare star system that is doomed to explode in a ‘kilonova’ caused by the merger of two neutron stars.
Feb 7, 2023
What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of Consciousness
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: alien life, quantum physics
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.
Summary: Variable stimuli may lead to better learning performance and outcomes under novel circumstances, a new study reports.
Source: DPZ
The World Cup final is in full swing, the stadium is filled to capacity, the fans are roaring, there is a flurry of flashbulbs. A free kick taker gets ready, takes a run-up and shoots. He had practiced free kicks a thousand times beforehand, but only on his home training ground and not in a crowded and noisy soccer stadium with changing lighting conditions and changing shooting positions. Will he still manage to score?
Feb 7, 2023
Sorcerer’s Apprentice — Paul Abraham Dukas
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: media & arts
Paul Abraham Dukas (1 October 1,865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, having abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions.
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Feb 7, 2023
Bioelectric networks underlie the intelligence of the body
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: biotech/medical
This is a talk given to the Department of Biotechnology at Indian Institute of Technology Madras in January 2023.