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The last shall be the first and the first last. – Frantz Fanon The objective of a revolutionary is to keep everything exactly as it was but replace those in power with themselves, to become what they hate, to gain the approval of those they despise.
Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current research on consciousness is characterised by disagreement and controversy – with several rival theories in contention.
It wasn’t Einstein or even astronomer Edwin Hubble who came up with the Big Bang theory, but Georges Lemaître, a Belgian astrophysicist and Roman Catholic priest.
Chances are you have already heard something about who anarchists are and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard is nonsense.
In his latest book, ‘Determined,’ the researcher uses biology to make the case that free will does not exist, an idea that raises moral doubts about the concepts of guilt, punishment, merit and effort He may be one of the great behavioral scientists, but Robert Sapolsky, 66, does not believe th
I once heard John Irving give a lecture on his process at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an in-depth account of the way his novels come to be. He kicked it off by writing a single sentence on the chalkboard—the last line of Last Night in Twisted River.
The background: The human brain is the most energy efficient “computer” on Earth — while a supercomputer needs 20 megawatts of power to process more than a quintillion calculations per second, your brain can do the equivalent with just 20 watts (a megawatt is 1 million watts).
Insider Brief We tend to think of quantum technology and quantum computing as a wave of technological trends that big businesses and global conglomerates must grapple. There is strong evidence that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will face the same challenges and opportunities of quantum.
Imagine this scenario: After months of asking for a promotion, your boss finally offers you an opportunity. She has a high-profile initiative that she wants you to oversee, and you are thrilled. The only drawback is that it’s not a promotion. She’s asking that you act as a team lead.
Re-publishing it as support for the conversation around “measuring” developer “productivity”. Those metrics frequently are used to enforce power differentials, at which point they create all manner of dysfunctions. “Well I’m a senior engineer so we’ll do it my way.
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