Humans have been riding high for a few hundred thousand years, albeit surviving a few bottlenecks, one of them reducing them to a few thousand samples. They invented many things, discovered others and overall demonstrated their intelligence and competence. …

As many thousands perish in Northwestern Africa, the “G20,” led by autocrats and idiots solve all problems faced by humanity. Most have “no comments,” as it is far away and not important enough. Just to put this in context for the “great leaders of the World,” Morocco has just lost…

When Archimedes designed the idea of limits over 2000 years ago, paving the way to advanced differential calculus that happened much later, it was limited to curved figures and volume. For those who could internalize the concept, it provided a higher meaning to many disciplines. Social scientists have been backward…

Artificial intelligence, the contemporary darling of technologists and investors alike, appears to have a hidden and unavoidable failure mode. The Achilles’ heel of AI has always been the raw materials used to create intelligence and such information is historical, existing and, known. AI, thus, can be considered to be an…

Extra-terrestrial hype and “research,” have kicked into high gear recently. There are whistle blowers, congressional hearings and even the space agency has succumbed to the trend, appointing commissions to investigate and report on the critters. People around the world have been seeing inexplicable phenomena, vehicles and “biological samples.” The stable…

There has always been something special about Pink Floyd, both the original and the latter two varieties and now research from the University of California, Berkeley (1) demonstrates the Neuroscience of music using the iconic band’s creation. Fans of the band know that the compendium of musical elements, called prosody…

Recent news that a fifth force is likely in the universe (1), upending generally accepted standard model, poses a larger philosophical question. Is knowledge possible? A related question is if the universe is simulated by a process with knowledge. Over the eons, it has been clear that the simulator moves…

A recent article (1) describes how honeybees optimized architectural aspects of their nests. By mixing five sided and seven sided shapes with hexagonal cells, they appear to have optimized the construction. …

The goal of healthcare is often ambiguous. Of course, the goal is dynamic depending on the state of the individual. The optimization variable, presumably, is the current value of the individual. That value depends on the likely decisions the individual would make in the future at different points in time…