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POPSHua Jai Chocolat-thD1999ep14 كامل بدون ملفات شان شاب متغطرس ابن مدير الفندق،وان موظفة سافرا إلى سويسرا طلبت الزواج منه ،لسبب سافرت لسويسررا لتكمل الدراسة تبعها ودخل نفس المدرسة
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POPSThe Science of Mysticism Well worth reading the article. Another example of how the popularised emphasis on 'intelligence' and AI is well off the mark when it comes to assessing the biological nature of the human organism: feelings (cortical representations and re-representations) are the basis of human experience including reason and language. The hundred years of suggestion in this area from James onwards are now being supplemented by modern neurobiological research. Such a key word as representation offers a potentially rich bridge between neuroscience and philosophy, linguistics and the humanities.
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POPSCulture versus Biology: the Darwin Legacy This is a very good article, succinctly describing the ideological structures underlying the uses and interpretations of science; also on the humanities-sciences dichotomies. I have highlighted a short section as there is a contemporary championing of technological innovations especially in neuroscience towards a utopian future eugenically designed to eliminate the 'inferior' : such dangerous rhetoric is severed from all human values, history and ideology.
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POPSCommitting Poetry in Times of War !! Committing Poetry in Times of War, based on a story developed by Stavros and Eric Sirotkin, documents many dynamic slam poetry and musical performances with select performances from Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and New York City Poetic Justice concerts.
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POPSAre You REALLY A Woman? "The tests never unmasked a man posing as a woman, but they did turn up several athletes who were born with genetic defects that made them appear — according to lab results, at least — to be men. In 1967, the Polish sprinter Ewa Klobukowska was barred from the sport because she failed the chromosomal test, even though she had passed the nude test a year earlier. In the 1980s, the Spanish hurdler Maria José Martínez Patino was disqualified because the test revealed, to her surprise, that she was born with a Y chromosome. Her eligibility was reinstated in 1988. The practice came under increasing criticism in the 1990s by doctors, scientists and athletes who argued that the tests were not just invasive, but were also bad science."
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POPSThe future of science...is art
"But before any of this can happen, our two existing cultures must modify their habits. First of all, the humanities must sincerely engage with the sciences. Henry James defined the writer as someone on whom nothing is lost; artists must heed his call, and not ignore science's inspiring descriptions of reality. At the same time, the sciences must recognize that their truths are not the only truths. No single area of knowledge has a monopoly on knowledge. As Karl Popper, an eminent defender of science wrote, "It is imperative that we give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human; that it is mixed with our errors, our prejudices, our dreams, and our hopes; that all we can do is to grope for truth even though it is beyond our reach." The struggle for scientific truth is long and hard and never ending. If we want to get an answer to our deepest questions—the questions of who we are and what everything is—we will need to draw from both science
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POPSWhat's In A Name...?
The study then compared the names and their popularity ratings to the first names of male youth in the juvenile justice system from 1997 to 2005. Using regression models, Lee and co-author David Kalist found that regardless of race, the more unique, rare and unpopular the name is, the more likely it popped up in youth crime files 10 to 18 years later. While half of the names in the state population have a PNI of 20 or more, half the names of the juvenile population have a PNI greater than 11. Lee calculated that for every 10 per cent increase in the popularity of a name, there is an associated 3.7 per cent decrease in the number of troublemaking kids with that name. However, research also showed that the PNI of a juvenile's name is also associated with other factors, such as socio-economic conditions and family structure. ``The PNI is positively associated when the kid is living with both parents and negatively associated when living only with the mother,'' said Lee, add
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POPSArgo – Databases produced or hosted by the Greek National Documentation Center and other resources "the Argo" is an environment facilitating the open access to bibliographical information resources which are available in Greece as well as abroad, with simple, medium and advanced search. It appeals mainly to users of the scientific, research and educational communities, seeking information in different thematic sectors, as well as to librarians, giving them the facility to retrieve and acquire bibliographical records."
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POPSFive questions for a galactic visitor The simple fact is that certain people have always opposed progress while other, better people have driven it. "Experts" decried boiled water as unhealthy compared the vital stuff straight from the river, cursed antibiotics as a temporary placebo, and confidently declared that computers were nothing but expensive toys. As an intelligent species we must make every effort to contact anyone or thing we can - and if you don't like it, there are some lovely caves you can move back to. what are your questions?
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POPSScience of Literature A sort of refraction of the two cultures debate of CP Snow. My own feeling is that the sort of excluded opposites prevalent in human cognition at all levels of social organisation are being (very slowly but highly significantly) eroded by emrging mindsets which are integrative and complex.
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