ScimPulse Foundation
"The SCimPulse Foundation aims to safeguard the future of humankind ...
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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.
Interactive map of endangered languages
Endangered Languages of the World, 2022 Map created by Ethnologue by SIL International in CARTO
Education and global poverty
Doing Strategy the Interactive & Flexible Way — Strategy as Football How to Develop Strategy and Make it Happen in a Lean/Agile Context
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...
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."
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...
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 Unfortunately, our contemporary view of science is still suffused with outdated ideas about scientific knowledge production based on a naive kind of ...
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 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
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...
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...
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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 Friendly societies: mutual aid in communities via friendly societies.
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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 Bank for International Settlements – BIS: , services globalisation and “Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly embedded into…
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.
Many Climate ‘Solutions’ Are Dead Ends Or Niches & Should Be Ignored But there are serious problems for nuclear in the vast majority of countries in the world, and we have to power every country.
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."
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.
Comic about contributions! https://kck.st/2xMcOlq
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:…
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...
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."
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?"
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000384897
Digital anthropology as an alternative to “big data” analysis for decision support: the case of health care programme and meeting document
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/machiavelli-principles-dao-decentralized-governance/
Machiavelli for DAOs: Principles for Fixing Decentralized Governance (part 1) - a16z crypto How Machiavellian principles can be applied to fix decentralized governance, including DAOs in web3
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...
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...
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.
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
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.
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 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 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
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
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
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 Inspiration and learnings from India’s success can be drawn in almost every field of human endeavour
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...