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Telos (philosophy)

Posted on July 11, 2010 by PlatoHagel

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Part of a series on Aristotle Aristotelianism[show] Peripatetic schoolphysicsethicsterm logicview of womenview of God (unmoved mover) Corpus Aristotelicum[show] PhysicsOrganonNicomachean EthicsPoliticsMetaphysicsOn the SoulRhetoricPoetics Ideas[show] Correspondence theory of truthhexisvirtue ethics (golden mean)four causestelostemporal finitismantiperistasisnaturepotentiality and actualityuniversals (substantial … Continue reading →

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Stephen Hawking At PI Institute

Posted on June 23, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, June 20, 2010 – In a public address before a packed audience at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), Prof. Stephen Hawking, PI Distinguished Research Chair, recounted his research, life and times, saying that it has been … Continue reading →

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Hubble Takes a Close-up View of a Reflection Nebula in Orion

Posted on May 13, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)  ABOUT THIS IMAGE: Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation … Continue reading →

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Boundaries are what divide us

Posted on May 2, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale The words seem a wise choice. This is not to support the religious right, or left,  nor to induce fear(contentions of Peale in the article,) but to support the … Continue reading →

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I Have An Idea

Posted on November 15, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Now as many of you know,  a creative individual if they are open enough can bring forth something that is accessible to all, but,  if the mind is not in a particular travelling mode, the idea might not appear on … Continue reading →

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FLAMINGOS-2 Achieves First Light Milestone

Posted on September 17, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Figure 1: FLAMINGOS-2 image of the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. A concentration of massive young stars in the very center of the cluster is causing the hydrogen … Continue reading →

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Quantum to Cosmos

Posted on June 16, 2009 by PlatoHagel

Came by this announcement from Bee of Backreaction and posted here. Looks like it will be an exciting event. The Record.com reports…. You don’t have to be Einstein to appreciate the principles explored in an upcoming festival about theoretical physics, … Continue reading →

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More Thoughts on Angel and Demons

Posted on May 21, 2009 by PlatoHagel

The Tao of heaven is to take from those who have too much and give to those who do not have enough. Man’s way is different. He takes from those who do not have enough to give to those who … Continue reading →

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On Creativity and Perception

Posted on March 9, 2009 by PlatoHagel

David Joseph Bohm (December 20, 1917, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania – October 27, 1992, London) was an American-born quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to the Manhattan Project. Bridging science, philosophy, and … Continue reading →

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A Point in Spacetime

Posted on January 23, 2009 by PlatoHagel

It is important that the inclusiveness of perception once extended sees information in it’s unfolding, so that once you arrive at a certain location, one is able to understand how they got there. A lot of times when I speak … Continue reading →

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