Results for “Natural History”

…ished the capital of Haiti in 2010 took the lives of approximately 200,000 people, all innocent and undeserving of this natural disaster. This is excess beyond what any psychopath has ever achieved. The Spanish Flu found its way into the bodies of innocent people from the Arctic...

…ately in the grand social experiment of kibbutz life. Having helped her mother raise her siblings in Warsaw, and with a natural affinity from children, she became the main authority on issues related to childbirth and early childcare. She actively partook in the kibbutz’s plannin...

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…s: » Make America energy independent, create millions of new jobs, and protect clean air and clean water; conserve our natural habitats, reserves and resources; unleash an energy revolution that will bring vast new wealthto our country. » Declare American energy dominancea stra...

…efinitions abound; Legg and Hutter [L107a] lists and organizes 70+ definitions from the literature. Practical study of natural intelligence in humans and other organisms, and practical de- sign, creation and instruction of artificial intelligences, can proceed perfectly well wit...

11 parameters have for a very long time fallen within the range spanned by modern natural-fertility populations. In my previous paper, I estimated using demographic statistics from a wide variety of natural-fertility populations, and found that this variation had little effect o...

…mber of important things that humanlike intelligent agents must be able to do relative to each of them. 9.4.1 Objects, Natural Units and Natural Kinds One key aspect of naive physics involves recognition of various aspects of objects, such as: Recognition of objects amidst noi...

…. T. Brandon, “Religious Involvement and Health,” Psychological Inquiry 13:3 (2002), pp. 22. “Larry Amhart, “Thomistic Natural Law as Darwinian Natural Right,” Ellen Frenkel, Fred Miller, Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Natural Law and Modern Moral Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge Universi...

…ately in the grand social experiment of kibbutz life. Having helped her mother raise her siblings in Warsaw, and with a natural affinity from children, she became the main authority on issues related to childbirth and early childcare. She actively partook in the kibbutz’s plannin...

…ich means no player has an incentive to unilaterally deviate) whenever a ≥ c 1−w lp + c h (1 − p). This condition has a natural interpretation: player 1’s expected temptation from defection is less than the gains from an ongoing cooperative interaction. Thus, player 1 would lose...

…uages, and the structural commonalities among them, mental representations uncover the underlying dynamics that produce natural languages (as the solutions to the problem of translating between hierarchical, distributed, associative, ambiguous representations and the discrete str...

…, 2011 J.P Morgan Topic: The quixotic search for energy solutions The other good news relates to the discovery of new natural gas reserves. US shale gas production is up 14-fold over the last decade, and the EIA projects that by 2035, the US will no longer be a gas importer. Ye...

Indeed, Wiener gave scientific teeth to the idea that in the workings of history, politics, and society, ideas matter. Beliefs, ideologies, norms, laws, and customs, by regulating the behavior of the humans who share them, can shape a society and power the course of historical ev...

then distributed copies by hand. Then he was slammed by his own community for doing so... well, read on and learn more about what happened next. I was honored to interview Berkowitz in early 2009. I really love it when I get the chance to talk to boundary-breaking activists who...

…country after country where his country played a monumentally positive role, especially in democratizing the system. We naturally want to extend this to Muslim- majority countries. Sadly, these for some time have offered an unpleasant choice between brutal and greedy dictators or...