What’s News For February 20th? As always we search the planet for the news that MSM has missed or ignored for you!
1. Firstly, civic engagement systematically declines when the Internet speed rises. In addition, time-consuming activities oriented to the pursuit of collective welfare, suffer the most from broadband penetration, while relationships with family and friends are less affected. https://voxeu.org/…/faster-internet-displaces-social…
2. “I loudly used these results to call for massive cuts in education spending. Yet since the book’s publication, no one has bothered to challenge my math. Not publicly, not privately. No one cared about my spreadsheets.” https://www.econlib.org/no-one-cared-about-my-spreadsheets/
3. Moreover, Bayes’ rule: the maths of truth-seeking — “The philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had a dream. He hoped that progress in philosophy and mathematics would eventually yield a method to systematically figure out the truth. In addition, this video explores an approach to that dream that takes us some of the way there: Bayesianism.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hHA-oqpNig
4. Meta-analysis: Self-explanation (i.e., getting students to explain a concept, rather than just giving them an explanation) greatly enhances learning. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-018-9434-x
5. Moreover, projecting local and global symmetries to the Planck scale https://ar5iv.org/abs/2202.05367
6. U.S. Drone Maker Skydio Wins Production Other Transaction (OT) Agreement for U.S. Army Short Range Reconnaissance Program https://www.skydio.com/…/skydio-selected-sole-platform…/
7. “When Tim Berners Lee talks about how he designed the web, he uses an analogy from physics, describing his process as a quest to find “fundamental laws” which can generate a desired system…” https://subconscious.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-links…
8. Lastly, our brains store concepts as sensory-motor and affective information https://mindblog.dericbownds.net/…/our-brains-store…
What’s News For February 20th? In conclusion, as always we search the planet for the news that MSM has missed or ignored for you!
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