conservatism and bureaucracy
" ... it seems clear that, apart from lack of funding, it is conservatism and bureaucracy — not religious belief in itself — that is holding back the development of science in many Islamic countries."
Monday, July 15, 2013
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Cannabis Not the Only Drug Linked to Schizophrenia | Psych Central News
Cannabis Not the Only Drug Linked to Schizophrenia | Psych Central News
"“If nonprescribed drugs, or substances, are taken for nontherapeutic reasons by people who are otherwise healthy, these substances can cause some form of destabilization of the healthy dynamics and alter healthy function in susceptible people — and can increase risk of their developing serious mental illness.”"
"“If nonprescribed drugs, or substances, are taken for nontherapeutic reasons by people who are otherwise healthy, these substances can cause some form of destabilization of the healthy dynamics and alter healthy function in susceptible people — and can increase risk of their developing serious mental illness.”"
Thursday, June 27, 2013
China's Space Program Tries to Catch Up | Stratfor
China's Space Program Tries to Catch Up | Stratfor
"China's strategic focus on space is less about national pride than about the importance of space for both the military and economic progress of the country. The Chinese space program has developed rapidly over the past decade, illustrating the importance of the program to Beijing."
"China's strategic focus on space is less about national pride than about the importance of space for both the military and economic progress of the country. The Chinese space program has developed rapidly over the past decade, illustrating the importance of the program to Beijing."
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
What are Complex Adaptive Systems?
What are Complex Adaptive Systems?
" Requisite Variety: The greater the variety within the system the stronger it is. In fact ambiguity and paradox abound in complex adaptive systems which use contradictions to create new possibilities to co-evolve with their environment. Democracy is a good example in that its strength is derived from its tolerance and even insistence in a variety of political perspectives."
" Requisite Variety: The greater the variety within the system the stronger it is. In fact ambiguity and paradox abound in complex adaptive systems which use contradictions to create new possibilities to co-evolve with their environment. Democracy is a good example in that its strength is derived from its tolerance and even insistence in a variety of political perspectives."
Friday, May 31, 2013
How Valeriy Lobanovskyi's appliance of science won hearts and trophies | Jonathan Wilson | Football | guardian.co.uk
How Valeriy Lobanovskyi's appliance of science won hearts and trophies | Jonathan Wilson | Football | guardian.co.uk
"Valeriy Lobanovskyi said football was less about individuals than about coalitions and the connections between them."
"The goal was rapid, simple, devastatingly co-ordinated – everything Lobanovskyi insisted football should be."
"Eventually, after a chance meeting with the statistician Anatoliy Zelentsov at a party, it was the latter that won out. Football became for him a system of 22 elements – two sub-systems of 11 elements – moving within a defined area (the pitch) and subject to a series of restrictions (the laws of the game). If the two sub-systems were equal, the outcome would be a draw. If one were stronger, they would win. The aspect that Lobanovskyi found most fascinating was that the sub-systems were subject to a peculiarity: the efficiency of the sub-system was greater than the sum of the efficiencies of the elements that comprise it. That, as Lobanovskyi saw it, meant football was ripe for the application of the cybernetic techniques being taught at the Polytechnic Institute. Football, he concluded, was less about individuals than about coalitions and the connections between them."
"the first thing we have in mind is to strive for new courses of action that will not allow the opponent to adapt to our style of play. If an opponent has adjusted himself to our style of play and found a counterplay, then we need to find new a new strategy. That is the dialectic of the game. You have to go forward in such a way and with such a range of attacking options that it will force the opponent to make a mistake. In other words, it's necessary to force the opponent into the condition you want them to be in. One of the most important means of doing that is to vary the size of the playing area."
"Valeriy Lobanovskyi said football was less about individuals than about coalitions and the connections between them."
"The goal was rapid, simple, devastatingly co-ordinated – everything Lobanovskyi insisted football should be."
"Eventually, after a chance meeting with the statistician Anatoliy Zelentsov at a party, it was the latter that won out. Football became for him a system of 22 elements – two sub-systems of 11 elements – moving within a defined area (the pitch) and subject to a series of restrictions (the laws of the game). If the two sub-systems were equal, the outcome would be a draw. If one were stronger, they would win. The aspect that Lobanovskyi found most fascinating was that the sub-systems were subject to a peculiarity: the efficiency of the sub-system was greater than the sum of the efficiencies of the elements that comprise it. That, as Lobanovskyi saw it, meant football was ripe for the application of the cybernetic techniques being taught at the Polytechnic Institute. Football, he concluded, was less about individuals than about coalitions and the connections between them."
"the first thing we have in mind is to strive for new courses of action that will not allow the opponent to adapt to our style of play. If an opponent has adjusted himself to our style of play and found a counterplay, then we need to find new a new strategy. That is the dialectic of the game. You have to go forward in such a way and with such a range of attacking options that it will force the opponent to make a mistake. In other words, it's necessary to force the opponent into the condition you want them to be in. One of the most important means of doing that is to vary the size of the playing area."
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Worth the time - physicsworld.com
Worth the time - physicsworld.com
"The subject of Dan Falk's In Search of Time is actually one step beyond these deeply perplexing mathematical questions. While we might think we understand time, unlike the "solidity" (and, dare I say it, the timelessness) of the above mathematical problems, there is absolutely nobody on Earth who knows what time is. Or, for that matter, if it even exists. Falk is frank about this right from the start, beginning with St Augustine's famous lament in his Confessions: "What, then, is time? If no-one asks of me, I know. But if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.""
"The subject of Dan Falk's In Search of Time is actually one step beyond these deeply perplexing mathematical questions. While we might think we understand time, unlike the "solidity" (and, dare I say it, the timelessness) of the above mathematical problems, there is absolutely nobody on Earth who knows what time is. Or, for that matter, if it even exists. Falk is frank about this right from the start, beginning with St Augustine's famous lament in his Confessions: "What, then, is time? If no-one asks of me, I know. But if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not.""
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