ScimPulse Foundation

ScimPulse Foundation

"The SCimPulse Foundation aims to safeguard the future of humankind ...
... to fuel humanity's natura

SCImPULSE invests in both daring fundamental research, and free-range innovation activities, offering a sandbox to handle resource flows, agreements, and evaluation. It easies the transition from state of the art practices (and the associated bureaucracy and rules) to the evolving novel behaviors and solutions of an inclusive and sustainable future society, managing the ensuing uncertainty.

Endangered Languages of the World, 2022 08/12/2023

Interactive map of endangered languages

Endangered Languages of the World, 2022 Map created by Ethnologue by SIL International in CARTO

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Education and global poverty

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Spinoza notes for grad seminar 25/11/2023

Spinoza notes for grad seminar Reading notes for the Ethics For seminar on oneness taught by Helen De Cruz (fall 2023) (these are just some messy notes, mainly aimed at clarifying, highlighting some parts of the text) Introduction to the Ethics Spinoza (1632-1677): Chronology of his life and broader context The Dutch Re...

"A Democratic Approach to Public Philosophy" by Jonathon Hawkins and Peter West 19/11/2023

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/a-democratic-approach-to-public-philosophy

"A Democratic Approach to Public Philosophy" by Jonathon Hawkins and Peter West "If academics want to increase uptake and funding, it seems plausible to suggest they must do something that is publicly interesting."

Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet) - Eunice Yiu, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, 2023 19/11/2023

quite the optimism hidden behind that "(yet)"... is it sincere or hype?

Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet) - Eunice Yiu, Eliza Kosoy, Alison Gopnik, 2023 Much discussion about large language models and language-and-vision models has focused on whether these models are intelligent agents. We present an alternative...

An epistemology for democratic citizen science | Royal Society Open Science 18/11/2023

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231100

An epistemology for democratic citizen science | Royal Society Open Science More than ever, humanity relies on robust scientific knowledge of the world and our place within it. Unfortunately, our contemporary view of science is still suffused with outdated ideas about scientific knowledge production based on a naive kind of ...

How 8,000 Food Forests Grew Africa's Great Green Wall 18/11/2023

https://youtu.be/1LCTVO_Y5Rs?feature=shared

How 8,000 Food Forests Grew Africa's Great Green Wall Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Senegal to see a movement of forest gardens which are contributing to Africa's Great Green Wall. Andrew a...

Pascal Hetzscholdt on LinkedIn: Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft are blaming users when generative-AI models… | 22 comments 09/11/2023

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pascal-hetzscholdt_google-openai-and-microsoft-are-blaming-activity-7127932114439659520-FnuZ

Pascal Hetzscholdt on LinkedIn: Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft are blaming users when generative-AI models… | 22 comments Quote: ""When an AI system is prompted by a user to produce an infringing output, any resulting liability should attach to the user as the party whose… | 22 comments on LinkedIn

Civilians, health workers, and health facilities must be protected during conflict 05/11/2023

https://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2512

Civilians, health workers, and health facilities must be protected during conflict The lives and safety of civilians and health workers must be protected during conflict. To do this, all parties must uphold international humanitarian law, says Claire Clement A catastrophic humanitarian situation is unfolding in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. During times of confl...

Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 05/11/2023

https://youtu.be/FwHMDjc7qJ8?feature=shared

Chocolate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) John Oliver discusses chocolate, cocoa farming, and, of course, some facts that will make Halloween a little weird.Connect with Last Week Tonight online... S...

The Tangle of Pseudoscience 05/11/2023

Webinar alert

The Tangle of Pseudoscience Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. But what is it that underwrites this reliability?

Friendly societies 01/11/2023

Friendly societies Friendly societies: mutual aid in communities via friendly societies.

To Each According to Their Space-Need: Communes in Outer Space 28/10/2023

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To Each According to Their Space-Need: Communes in Outer Space Space settlement advocates frequently argue that we will soon be able to settle humans in space. Surviving on Mars is clearly a pre-requisite to settl…

Martin Ebers on LinkedIn: BIS - AI, services globalisation and income inequality 26/10/2023

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martin-ebers-4984444b_bis-ai-services-globalisation-and-income-activity-7122964783280050177-hsA0

Martin Ebers on LinkedIn: BIS - AI, services globalisation and income inequality Bank for International Settlements – BIS: , services globalisation and “Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded into…

Governing the economics of the common good 22/10/2023

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/publications/2023/oct/governing-economics-common-good

Governing the economics of the common good This paper provides a renewed conception of the common good, going beyond the classic public good and commons approach, as a way of steering and shaping the economy towards collective goals.

"Philosophy in the Agora: Past, Present and Future": An Essay by Angie Hobbs 14/10/2023

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/philosophy-in-the-agora-past-present-and-future

"Philosophy in the Agora: Past, Present and Future": An Essay by Angie Hobbs "Philosophy, including and perhaps especially, public philosophy, is often best done in dialogue, as Socrates well knew."

Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets 13/10/2023

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03177-1

Reproducibility trial: 246 biologists get different results from same data sets Wide distribution of findings shows how analytical choices drive conclusions.

13/10/2023

Comic about contributions! https://kck.st/2xMcOlq

UN 2.0 | United Nations on LinkedIn: UN 2.0: United Nations (Our Common Agenda Policy #11) 12/10/2023

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/un-two-zero_un-20-united-nations-our-common-agenda-ugcPost-7117915500776460289-HoQA

UN 2.0 | United Nations on LinkedIn: UN 2.0: United Nations (Our Common Agenda Policy #11) 📑 Get your copy of UN Secretary-General António Guterres' latest policy brief on skills and cultural transformation of the United Nations system:…

Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies - Sarah Knuth, 2023 11/10/2023

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X211062601

Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies - Sarah Knuth, 2023 Progressive movements today call for transformative state-led investment in renewable energy and other climate infrastructures—in the United States, a vision th...

"Character, Vices, and Authority" by Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Epistemology; Ethics; Virtue; Truth) 08/10/2023

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/character-vices-and-authority

"Character, Vices, and Authority" by Ian James Kidd (Keywords: Epistemology; Ethics; Virtue; Truth) "Epistemic vices are fundamentally failures of our inner life, failures to relate or respond to epistemic values and ideals."

"Nothing Matters": An Essay by Bret W. Davis (Keywords: Zen; Kyoto School; Nihilism; Metaphysics) 01/10/2023

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/nothing-matters

"Nothing Matters": An Essay by Bret W. Davis (Keywords: Zen; Kyoto School; Nihilism; Metaphysics) "Have you ever woken up feeling like there’s no point in getting out of bed because, after all, nothing really matters?"

Antropocene e distruzione delle value chains @ GreenBlueDays (Napoli 2023) 28/09/2023

https://youtu.be/WhGnS1WZsmg?feature=shared

Antropocene e distruzione delle value chains @ GreenBlueDays (Napoli 2023) Our President, Dr Marco Manca, has contributed as a keynote speaker to the 3rd edition of the Green Blue Days https://scimpulse.blogspot.com/2023/09/greenblu...

User lead innovation ed innovazione digitale: nuovi modi di affrontare l’incerto e l’ignoto 26/09/2023

https://scimpulse.blogspot.com/2023/09/transizione-pediatrica-adulto.html

User lead innovation ed innovazione digitale: nuovi modi di affrontare l’incerto e l’ignoto Il 12 ottobre di ogni anno, la comunità globale si unisce per celebrare la Giornata Mondiale delle Malattie Reumatologiche. A Roma (IT) al...

26/09/2023

Follow ScimPulse Foundation at the in Naples (IT). Our President, Dr Marco Manca, will offer a keynote about anthropocene impact on value chains, and adaptation.

Frank Harrell on X 24/09/2023

https://twitter.com/f2harrell/status/1704470065045754155

Frank Harrell on X & thought of the day:Medical treatments are designed to make patients more ALIKE. The limit is a curative treatment for which all pts have the same good outcome. This is anti-heterogeneity of treatment effect. https://t.co/rlSIrIJufn

Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon 22/09/2023

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adh8499

Intentional creation of carbon-rich dark earth soils in the Amazon Indigenous Amazonians have deliberately improved soils for agriculture while sequestering and storing carbon over millennia.

Simon Wardley on X 21/09/2023

https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1704502965078278348

Simon Wardley on X dX: Did you finish your mapping sessions on where to invest in sustainability? Me: Yes. dX: Conclusion? Me: It depends. Is your investment aimed at fixing the problem or making more money?

‘Susu’: Ghana’s Informal Economy is a Case Study in Post-capitalist Development 20/09/2023

https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/susu-ghanas-informal-economy-is-a-case-study-in-postcapitalist-development/

‘Susu’: Ghana’s Informal Economy is a Case Study in Post-capitalist Development As the world looks for alternatives to neoliberal fundamentalism, many economic and financial systems rooted in tradition are providing renewed hope for restructuring our lives around collective ef…

Anita Leirfall on X 17/09/2023

Anita Leirfall on X Every year more people die from microbes that have evolved to evade modern medicine than do from malaria & AIDS combined. By 2050, antimicrobial resistance could overtake cancer as the leading cause of death. The post-antibiotic apocalypse is already here https://t.co/prRazB8Pnq

Le Monde diplomatique 🖋 on X 17/09/2023

https://twitter.com/mdiplo/status/1703287920336027801

Le Monde diplomatique 🖋 on X Des milliers de langues nées durant les cinq derniers millénaires auraient disparu, généralement sans laisser de traces. Parmi tous les facteurs conduisant à cet assèchement du patrimoine culturel mondial, la domination économique joue un rôle majeur. https://t.co/Z9OdjwhVw8

Mapping modern economic rents: the good, the bad, and the grey areas 10/09/2023

https://academic.oup.com/cje/article/47/3/507/7160981

Mapping modern economic rents: the good, the bad, and the grey areas Abstract. There is increasing consensus that modern capitalist economies suffer from excessive rent extraction in both financial and real economy sectors. Howev

"Recognition": An Essay by Kristina Lepold (Keywords: Freedom; Agency; Personhood; Hegel; Honneth) 06/09/2023

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/the-new-basics-recognition

"Recognition": An Essay by Kristina Lepold (Keywords: Freedom; Agency; Personhood; Hegel; Honneth) "Recognition is not just a moral or ethical concept, but also, and perhaps primarily, a political concept."

Lessons from our lunar landing go far beyond science 29/08/2023

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/lessons-from-our-lunar-landing-go-far-beyond-science-11693232533092.html

Lessons from our lunar landing go far beyond science Inspiration and learnings from India’s success can be drawn in almost every field of human endeavour

Who Asks Questions and Who Benefits from Answers: Understanding Institutions in Terms of Social Epistemic Dependencies - Erkenntnis 29/08/2023

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10670-023-00732-0

Who Asks Questions and Who Benefits from Answers: Understanding Institutions in Terms of Social Epistemic Dependencies - Erkenntnis The paper develops the idea that institutions are enablers. However, they do not only enable individuals and collectives to achieve their goals; first and foremost, they enable individuals and collectives to have a goal, to select and recognize certain possible states of affairs as targets of action...