Author Archives: PlatoHagel

Tracking the Trackers

Posted on June 14, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil — personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favorite websites stay in business. But, says Gary Kovacs, it’s … Continue reading →

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The Heart Connection

Posted on June 12, 2012 by PlatoHagel

If the heart was free from the impurities of sin, and therefore lighter than the feather, then the dead person could enter the eternal afterlife. Many times we talk about the heart as a physical thing that exists within our … Continue reading →

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The Black Hole of What?

Posted on June 11, 2012 by PlatoHagel

In networking, black holes refer to places in the network where incoming traffic is silently discarded (or “dropped”), without informing the source that the data did not reach its intended recipient. When examining the topology of the network, the black … Continue reading →

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Schumann resonance

Posted on June 6, 2012 by PlatoHagel

At any given moment about 2,000 thunderstorms roll over Earth, producing some 50 flashes of lightning every second. Each lightning burst creates electromagnetic waves that begin to circle around Earth captured between Earth’s surface and a boundary about 60 miles … Continue reading →

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Mirror Neurons

Posted on May 31, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Neuroscientific evidence suggests that one basic entry point into understanding others’ goals and feelings is the process of actively simulating in our own brain the actions we observe in others. This involves the firing of neurons that would be activated … Continue reading →

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Embodied Cognition and iCub

Posted on May 28, 2012 by PlatoHagel

An iCub robot mounted on a supporting frame. The robot is 104 cm high and weighs around 22 kg An iCub is a 1 metre high humanoid robot testbed for research into human cognition and artificial intelligence. Systems that perceive, … Continue reading →

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The Incandescent Sun

Posted on May 24, 2012 by PlatoHagel

 This video takes SDO images and applies additional processing to enhance the structures visible. While there is no scientific value to this processing, it does result in a beautiful, new way of looking at the sun. The original frames are … Continue reading →

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BroadBand Technology

Posted on May 24, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Broadband research is a McGill area of expertise. Meet researchers such as David Plant, Tho Le-Ngoc, and Mark Coates who are on the cutting edge of machine to machine communication, high-speed internet technologies, and wireless communications. Dialogos of Eide

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Hypercomputation

Posted on May 23, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Hypercomputation or super-Turing computation refers to models of computation that go beyond, or are incomparable to, Turing computability. This includes various hypothetical methods for the computation of non-Turing-computable functions, following super-recursive algorithms (see also supertask). The term “super-Turing computation” appeared … Continue reading →

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Digital Physics

Posted on May 21, 2012 by PlatoHagel

In physics and cosmology, digital physics is a collection of theoretical perspectives based on the premise that the universe is, at heart, describable by information, and is therefore computable. Therefore, the universe can be conceived as either the output of … Continue reading →

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