<< Il 22 febbraio è iniziata la #Milano Fashion Week che andrà avanti fino al 28. In foto una modella con una creazione della collezione autunno-inverno di Moschino. Photo: REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini >>
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<< NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets >>
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-host-news-conference-on-discovery-beyond-our-solar-system
<< The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics (..) But fake news is not at all new in the world of science >>
<< Fake news about science has always existed >>
<< What has changed now is social media and the potential to disseminate this kind of news much faster among social networks >>
Dominique Brossard. Communications expert explains how science should respond to fake news. Feb. 18, 2017.
https://scienmag.com/communications-expert-explains-how-science-should-respond-to-fake-news/
False Information Labeled “A Cancer” On Enlightened Democracy. Feb. 18, 2017
https://www.aaas.org/news/false-information-labeled-cancer-enlightened-democracy
<< If the foot touching the ground is perceived to be the left foot, the dancer appears to be spinning clockwise (if seen from above); >>
<< if it is taken to be the right foot, then she appears to be spinning counterclockwise >>
<< the way people perceive the Silhouette Illusion , a popular illusion that went viral and has received substantial online attention, has little to do with the viewers' personality, or whether they are left- or right-brained, despite the fact that the illusion is often used to test these attributes in popular e-quizzes >>
<< Niko Troje says that a reported preference for seeing the silhouette spinning clockwise rather than counter-clockwise is dependent upon the angle at which the viewer is seeing the image >>
<< Our visual system, if it has a choice, seems to prefer the view from above >>
New study debunks myth about popular optical illusion (Update). Dec. 21, 2010
https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2010-12-debunks-myth-popular-optical-illusion.html
Nikolaus F Troje, Matthew McAdam. The Viewing-from-Above Bias and the Silhouette Illusion. Jan. 1, 2010
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1068/i0408
also:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=silhouette+illusion
summary:
(1): accelerating the rise of (AI) bots in the US
(2): pay attention to (Jay)walk; It could effectively be very dangerous ...
(3): gifts for US Democrats
more (a): Chen' triptych, the first
2150 - il soffio di Chen. Jan 05, 2008.
http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2008/01/2150-il-soffio-di-chen.html
more (b): 'Donald' in:
http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/
(1) << If President Trump really does push companies to base more of their production in the US then those that specialise in robotics and automation will probably be the winners >>
Paul Diggle. Why Donald Trump is inadvertently going to accelerate the rise of robots. Jan. 25, 2017.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hard-to-trump-robotics-2017-1
(2) << “Donald Trump has effectively created a way to deport individuals who have been accused, charged or convicted of anything from murder to jaywalking,” said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles >>
Janell Ross, Aaron C. Davis & Joel Achenbach. Immigrant community on high alert, fearing Trump’s ‘deportation force’. Feb. 11, 2017
(3) David Weigel, Karen Tumulty. A gift and a challenge for Democrats: A restive, active and aggressive base. Feb. 11, 2017.
FonT: il prossimo futuro potrebbe essere "facile" da percorrere ... percio' sara' "difficile"; forse (e si sottolinea forse) nell'ambito di "strane" discipline quali la neuro- farmacologia e la neuro- epi- genetica si trovera' "l'adatta stringa" ...
<< Sometimes, mess is better than order and precision >>
<< By breaking the rigidity of rules, we expose ourselves to unexpected twists and turns which push us to come up with creative, innovative and improvised ideas and answers >> Tim Harford
Pooja Singh. The magic in mess. In this volatile business world, can a little messiness help spur creativity? Sun, Jan 22 2017. 04 15 PM
http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/qo2FKT6SQzkl5onbbtqEML/The-magic-in-mess.html
<< The theory also posits a role for noise or variability in neural activity to explore different possible interpretations, even when the sensory input and prediction are the same >>
<< This noise-driven process of exploration may be the neural basis of creativity >>
How does the brain make perceptual predictions over time? Feb. 6, 2017
https://m.medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-brain-perceptual.html
David J. Heeger. Theory of cortical function. PNAS. Feb. 3, 2017. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1619788114
