Blog categorized as Science

As in nature, as in society, as in business: it is a tough world out there. Only the strongest, fittest, best survive. You need to have talents, in terms of raw strength or in extrovertness or blind ambition. If not you will not make it in the world, be it the biological or the business world.

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Also called the Recommended Basic List of Great Masterpieces of Universal Literature (from Edmond Bordeaux Szekely). This list is from his booklet The Art of Study - The Sorbonne Method. This booklet explains a method of study employed by Szekely himself...

Een groeiende ergernis bij het aanhoren van nieuws- en weerberichten is de gewoonte om de volgende soort uitspraken te doen:

"De temperatuur morgen is 17 graden, ca. 7 graden meer dan normaal." (nadruk van mij)

Wat is in hemelsnaam normaal? Is het normaal dat de temperatuur altijd gemiddeld ...

Two hundred years after Darwin's birth, the theory of evolution is still evolving — and finding relevance in realms far outside the biological.
Evolution is being scaled up to the level of populations, even whole ecosystems. Moreover, scientists say evolution is intertwined with other dynamics in w...