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Bookmark Are we witnessing the dawn of post-theory science? | Artificial intelligence (AI)…
Isaac Newton apocryphally discovered his second law – the one about gravity – after an apple fell on his head. Much experimentation and data analysis later, he realised there was a…

January 10 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Why does the Universe exist at all? - BBC Science Focus Magazine
Back in the plague year of 1665-1666, Isaac Newton changed the scientific world, discovering the universal law of gravity and the mathematics of calculus. Now, in the plague year of 2020-2021,…

July 30 2021, 11:51am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the Father of Digital Life
n 1953, at the dawn of modern computing, Nils Aall Barricelli played God. Clutching a deck of playing cards in one hand and a stack of punched cards in the other,…

June 20 2014, 6:08am | Comments
Bookmark An Idle Theory of Evolution
The idea of evolution is of great antiquity. Empedocles, around 440 BC, wrote that there were once "countless tribes of mortal creatures, scattered abroad and endowed with all manner of forms,"…

July 10 2012, 2:40am | Comments
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On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'

October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments
Bookmark Why the Basis of the Universe Isn’t Matter or Energy—It’s Data
Information flows everywhere, through wires and genes, through brain cells and quarks. But while it may appear ubiquitous to us now, until recently we had no awareness of what information was…

March 6 2011, 3:43am | Comments
Bookmark Plato's stave: academic cracks philosopher's musical code
It may sound like the plot of a Dan Brown novel, but an academic at the University of Manchester claims to have cracked a mathematical and musical code in the works…

July 20 2010, 2:45am | Comments
Bookmark Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'
A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked "The Plato Code" - the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher's writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece's…

July 1 2010, 6:44am | Comments
Wikipedia Coriolis effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite sides of a spinning roundabout (carousel), who are throwing a ball to each other. From…

January 20 2010, 5:57am | Comments
Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments

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