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WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY’S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT? Kayfabe The sophisticated “scientific concept” with the greatest potential to enhance human understanding may be argued to come not from the halls of academe, but rather from the unlikely research environment of professional wrestling. Evolutionary biologists Richard Alexander and Robert Trivers have recently emphasized that it is […]

December 31, 2011 by

“GO VIRTUAL YOUNG MAN”

HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK? “GO VIRTUAL YOUNG MAN” Oddly, the Internet is still invisible to the point where many serious thinkers continue to doubt whether it changes modern thought at all. In science we generally first learn about invisible structures from anomalies in concrete systems. The existence of an invisible […]

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