Watch more videos on complexity and emergence: https://shorturl.at/QLrfUEmergence is how the world works differently at various levels or hierarchies of orga…
Be sure to look at the night sky on June 3rd to see a somewhat rare event called a large ‘planetary parade.’
Two anecdotes and charts: Women’s and men’s college graduation rates.
Anecdote:
I gave an extra-credit assignment in one of my courses. The course had twenty students, eleven men and nine women. Six students chose to do the assignment — and then I noticed something in my grade book: all of them were women. Getting all statistic-y about it: 66.7% of the females were willing to do the extra work, while 0% if the men were.
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editor of[Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI], talked about the future of artificial intelligence with two contributors to the book, David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett.
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report Tuesday that found the number of sexually transmitted infections have increased around the world.
At the weekend, millions of people around the world were treated to a mesmerizing display of the aurora borealis and aurora australis, better known as the northern and southern lights. The lights, usually seen in crown-like regions surrounding the Earth’s poles, were pushed to mid-latitudes by heightened activity from the sun.
