Why don't Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator
https://bigthink.com/big-think-books/paranormal-investigators-public-trust/
#HackerNews #AmericansTrustExperts #ParanormalInvestigator #PublicTrust #Skepticism #BigThink
#bigthink
🚂 Wow, congrats! You've discovered the world's longest train journey that absolutely no one cares to take! 🚂 It's like writing a novel no one's gonna read—bravo, Big Think! 🎉
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/portugal-to-singapore-train/ #longesttrainjourney #BigThink #novelnoonewillread #trainadventure #travelhumor #HackerNews #ngated
Ah yes, the cosmic obsession with 21 cm — clearly the universe's way of measuring its own ego. 🤔✨ Meanwhile, Big Think parades its intellectual trophy squad, as if a lineup of celebrity scientists will magically make this trivia any more profound. 🙄🌌
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/21cm-magic-length/ #cosmicobsession #universe #celebrityscientists #BigThink #intellectualtrophies #HackerNews #ngated
Big Think interviewed Anne-Laure Le Cunff, I like the idea of little experiments that we can use in our lives, to keep our curiosity alive:
#BigThink: How a Team of #Female #Astronomers Revolutionized Our Understanding of #Stars
#Astronomer Anna Frebel delivers a fascinating 3-min talk on the influential #history of #women #scientists analyzing & categorizing #celestial bodies. Female "#computers" were making "stellar" contributions [her #pun] in the early decades of the 20th #century.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-lJx4E0mjY 2016 Feb 24
🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Frebel
#Community #TimeTravel #Research #quantum #physics #2025Mar14 #Kronodon
"Election Hackers: Why Voting Technology Has to Stay Primitive | Cybersecurity Expert Kathleen Fisher" #BigThink https://youtu.be/CsoK1JoBtyA?si=tqimh0R7-cVFdv3H
@Chiquidrakula @COSAntiFascists @iris @Em0nM4stodon @cryptoparty@mastodon.earth @cryptoparty@chaos.social
Now if you don't trust @monocles nor @protonprivacy (which IMHO is fair and correct!) and you can't use @thunderbird or something because you have no private computer with internet access [i.e. only a work-issued laptop you can't use for anything non-work - related] and you can't just boot into @tails_live / @tails / #Tails or a portable #Linux #Desktop distro at all then the real "#GalaxyBrainChair" - level "#BigThink" you can do is go the "#OfflinePGP" route and thus encrypt & decrypt your messages on a different device entirely.
- The main problem may be that you'd then have to get that to the machine from which you can send it, which as we all know from the #MattKC video means you gotta "keep it brief" [as in 2.944 bytes short] if you want to do the webcam & screen method of #airgapping...
I just didn't have time to get the "Airgapped Transfer Protocol" done, but setting the *"Barcode Scanner" App into bulk mode makes it less tedious to import stuff to an Android device...
Website #BigThink talks to A. C. Grayling on the need to focus on #education over #religion. Theists argue that religion has been critical to advancement and, lacking it, moral rot erodes society. Grayling disagrees. Short, fascinating read. #philosophy bigthink.com/thinking/…
Website #BigThink talks to A. C. Grayling on the need to focus on #education over #religion. Theists argue that religion has been critical to advancement and, lacking it, moral rot erodes society. Grayling disagrees. Short, fascinating read. #philosophy https://bigthink.com/thinking/a-c-grayling-we-dont-need-to-bring-back-religion-we-need-to-bring-back-education/
Will people embrace these superpowers? They might be too creepy for mainstream use
#futuretech #techpredictions #innovation #bigthink
Predicting the "digital superp...
„Social-Media-Konzerne sollten verantwortlich für ihre Algorithmen sein“
Menschen sollten auf Plattformen schreiben dürfen, was sie wollen. Die Plattformen sollten aber für die Entscheidungen ihrer Algorithmen verantwortlich sein.
#AndrewRossSorkin #BigThink #Facebook #Google #Meta #Myanmar #Rohingya #SocialMedia #Twitter #YuvulNoahHarari
My lunchtime article is boring
No, seriously, it is about how social media is damaging our transformative boredom, that leads us (as humans) to go on and do something great - Instead replacing it with, what I will call 'weak ass boredom' that results in you getting to the end of the day, having achieved absolutely nothing!
We need boredom to live better lives. But social media is destroying it.
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/social-media-profound-boredom/
Yeah, #SalC1 really did the #GalaxyBrainChair #BigThink here...
I say YES to conversation, meditation, and "emotional regulation."
"The importance of conversation cannot possibly be understated because it is the bulwark against perpetual violence...""
Sam Harris in "The great problem of our time" on #BigThink
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfAUbJgR0pE
A compelling argument for "meditation as a great tool of emotional regulation"
Here's a link about "quantum spookiness" and trying to figure out if we live in a "deterministic" universe.
Sorry for showing my ignorance, but does anyone have any idea what "a deterministic universe" is supposed to mean, exactly?
Does it mean people would be able to predict everything that would happen?
Is there a chance they could manipulate it?
Wouldn't their chances of success or failure be determined already?
Fascinating graphic - most fascinating to me is that there are 0 "thinkers" in our current times (this century)...I could get snarky - what do you think?
#BigThink #Think #Curious #ThinkersOfMastodon #Press
I think there should be kids books about it and board games!
#Politics #Civility #BigThink
#kamala2024
#BoardGames #KidsBooks
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