February 2012
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 17th
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Why Don't Americans Elect Scientists? →
canisfamiliaris: Among the 435 members of the House, for example, there are one physicist, one chemist, one microbiologist, six engineers, and nearly two dozen with medical training, though the case of doctors is telling: Those with medical backgrounds escape the anti-intellectual charge of irrelevance often thrown at those in the hard sciences. This showing is sparse even with the inclusion...
Feb 16th
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Feb 14th
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Hardwired For The Mystical? http://bit.ly/w17pJB The gap between atheists and the religious seems at times to be an impossible divide, almost as if believers and non-believers come from different species. What separates the secular from the sacred? An “Ask the Brains” question on the Scientific American site recently inquired as to any differences between the brain of an atheist and...
Feb 12th
Creatures of Culture http://bit.ly/yVXAfK La idea de la cultura aplicada a la robótica, la única duda que me pasa por la mente es, Será necesaria?, quiero decir, la razón por la cual la cultura es una gran herramienta para los seres humanos es que podemos obtener conocimiento sin necesidad de experimentar directamente lo necesario para adquirirlo, sólamente escuchando a aquellos que han vivido...
Feb 12th
“Que la vida iba en serio uno lo empieza a comprender más tarde.”
– Fragmento de No volveré a ser joven, Jaime Gil de Biedma. (via janale)
Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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La teoría de juegos y la estrategia del Software Libre - http://bit.ly/y21GEi Una desripción (quizá no tan acertada, pero los suficientemente descriptiva). También pueden http://biblioweb.sindominio.net/telematica/softlibre/sl.pdf“>descargar el documento en pdf de la http://biblioweb.sindominio.net/telematica/softlibre/sl.html“>fuente. [ #SL #SoftwareLibre #TeoríaDeJuegos...
Feb 8th
“All men are born artists but most of them are quickly mutilated.”
– Charles Bukowski - More Notes of a Dirty Old Man  (via templiorientis)
Feb 8th
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How To Think About Quantum Field Theory - http://bit.ly/x5RHNQ Over on the Google+, I linked to an informal essay by John Norton, in which he recounts the activities of a workshop on QFT at the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh last October. In Norton’s telling, the important conceptual divide was between those who want to study “axiomatic” QFT on the one hand,...
Feb 8th
Human Brains Wire Up Slowly but Surely - http://bit.ly/Aj4Q3C As the father-to-son exchange in the old Cat Stevens song advised, “take your time, think a lot, … think of everything you’ve got.” Turns out the mellow ’70s folkie had stumbled upon what may explain a key feature of our brains that sets us apart from our closest relatives: We unhurriedly make synaptic connections...
Feb 6th
Feb 5th
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Feb 2nd
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January 2012
9 posts
Jan 29th
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Hungría prohibe las huelgas y crea campos de... →
pensarnoesilegal: En la nueva constitución húngara se anula el derecho de huelga y se obliga a los parados de larga duración (en gran medida gitanos) a emplearse en campos de trabajo cerrados y vigilados. Las únicas familias serán las heterosexuales casadas, y el aborto queda prohibido. Por su parte, la UE sólo ha cuestionado lo referente a la competencia del Banco Central, y ha pedido a Hungría...
Jan 28th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 20th
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“Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame...”
– Heinz Pagels (via scienceisbeauty)
Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 12th
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The Autism Enigma: Nature Neuroscience Special... →
houseofmind: Nature Neuroscience, one of the world’s leading peer reviewed scientific journals, has put out a whole issue dedicated to autism and autism-spectrum disorders that is freely available to everyone. I happen to have a hard copy of it and it’s a comprehensive collection of all the recent advances in that field. Click on the link to access a copy of the issue, which includes news,...
Jan 9th
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“La desobediencia, en los ojos de cualquiera que haya leído historia, es la...”
– Oscar Wilde. (via subemela-farda)
Jan 1st
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December 2011
18 posts
Si hay algo que uno aprende al ser un #generalista es que, la mayoría de las veces, cuando piensas que algo es demasiado simple, y que los demás son demasiado estúpidos para verlo, estás enfocando el problema desde el ángulo equivocado. [ #Pesamiento #Conocimiento #Heurística ]
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Tinkering with evolution: Ecological implications... →
Huff, combinar Linux y Ciencia… Evolution of the modular structure of the network of dependencies between packages of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Packages are represented by nodes. A green arrow from package i to package j indicates that package i depends on package j, and a red arrow indicates that package i has a conflict with package j. Packages within a module (depicted by a...
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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xkcd: Infrastructures →
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Dec 22nd
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xkcd: Collatz Conjecture →
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Dec 22nd
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El bosón de Higgs explicado a mi abuela →
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Dec 22nd
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Gallery: Robots take over in 2011 →
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Dec 21st
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Planetas ficticios que me gustaría visitar →
Uploaded with ImageShack.us Imaginad por un momento que los planetas que hemos visto en las películas, que hemos conocido a través de los libros, que aparecen en cómics y series de televisión realmente existiesen. Y después pensad en unas vacaciones interestelares, visitando planetas lejanos, descubriendo nuevas culturas y civilizaciones, probando exóticos platos y extraños brebajes, viendo...
Dec 20th
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“In science, as in many other areas, words matter. Words are metaphors that put...”
– The New Meanings of How and Why in Biology? | A Blog Around The Clock, Scientific American Blog Network (via greglinch)
Dec 20th
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El canibalismo de los osos polares y el cambio... →
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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*”People watch the films, they visit the zoos, and by the mesmeric power of these vicarious experiences they come carelessly to believe that the Bengal tiger (or the white rhino, or the giant panda, or the diademed sifaka) is alive and well because they have seen it. Well I’m sorry but they haven’t seen it. They’ve seen images; they’ve seen taxidermy on the hoof. And the wellness, even the...
Dec 12th
Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Had Known When I Was 18 - http://dia.so/1xi
Dec 11th
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Dec 7th
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November 2011
6 posts
Para aquellos que piensan que sólo leo (y recomiendo) #libros de matemáticas, ciencia e informática. Aquí les va uno diferente: El Economista Camuflado de Tim Harford. Una buena introducción al pensamiento económico moderno, buen provecho!.
Nov 9th
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Computer gamers develop problem-solving algorithm... →
Nov 8th
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Why Don’t People Believe In God? - http://dia.so/13g
Nov 5th
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Inestabilidad después de la gran extinción →
Nov 2nd
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Nov 2nd
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#MesoFact: 7 E9 Humanos
El tipo de datos que representan una dificultad más grande a la hora de manejarlos, de memorizarlos o simplemente de tomarlos en consideración son los mesofacts (‘mesohechos’, si se quiere). Son aquellos datos que cambian, pero que cambian tan lento que la mayoría de la gente suele pensar que son fijos, y basa sus conclusiones en valores que no corresponden a esos datos, un claro...
Nov 1st
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October 2011
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Oct 31st
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“The corollary of saying that you should have no guilt for the actions of the...”
– Rupert Baines’s answer to To what extent should ancestral guilt impact on the opinions, actions and behaviours of their descendants today? 
Oct 30th
La realización de la propia #mortalidad puede ser un hecho impresionante, cuando es real, cuando es algo más que el mero *aknowledgment* de la cuestión. Puede llevarte a profundos senderos filosóficos, o al más oscuro de los abismos mientras te empeñas en la #búsqueda de algo que justifique la acción… [ #Filosofía #Humanismo #Espiritualidad ]
Oct 30th