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Jun 16 2020
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The 12 scenarios in which we could live if Artificial Intelligence surpasses humans

By Sergio Parra portal-3

In the cinema, when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human intelligence, it always reacts in the same way: plan for world domination.

However, there are 12 possible scenarios that can take place if this comes…

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Jun 15 2020
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In Ten Years, the Number of American Teachers Teaching Creationism Has Reduced Considerably

By Sergio Parra portal-3

It seems that the world is not heading towards an era of darkness, superstition and idiocy, as we have been seeing with the statements of some public figures about 5G, coronavirus or vaccines.

At least, not in all…

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Jun 15 2020
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Mozart may reduce seizure frequency in people with epilepsy

By Sergio Parra portal-3

A new study by Tarjan Rafiee and Taufik Valiante of the Krembil Brain Institute at Toronto Western Hospital, part of the University Health Network, has an eloquent title: The Rhyme and Rhythm of Music in Epilepsy.

What…

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Jun 15 2020
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Anti-vaccines are not crazy: they are more educated, richer and have more free time (although they are wrong)

By Sergio Parra portal-3

After the hilarious statements of Miguel Bosé or Enrique Bunbury, one would come to conceptualize the anti-vaccine movement as a mob of ignorant and rednecks and that only books would function as a true neuronal vaccine.

However…

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Jun 15 2020
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In 2023, China will have an Internet of Things satellite constellation with 80 satellites

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Many of the objects around us, from a cup of coffee to a package of dental floss, have some features of a smartphone thanks to small, cheap devices called the Internet of Things (IoT).

Aware …

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Jun 14 2020
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We are simply cleaner if there is more cleaning

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Our behavior is continually fed back by our environment. From our degree of vandalism and civility depending on whether we feel observed or not (or if the environment shows signs of vandalism, as the undiscussed theory refers...

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Jun 14 2020
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This is the smallest ad that has been created and cannot be seen with the naked eye.

By Sergio Parra portal-3

On September 21, 2018, Dutch technology company ASML unveiled a 258.19 square micrometer advertisement in Veldhoven, Netherlands.

It was engraved and printed on an electronic wafer and said: «To become very...

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Jun 14 2020
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The real Cyrano was a lover of men and obsessed with outer space

By Sergio Parra portal-3

We all have in mind a man with a nose as sharp as his tongue capable of seducing any woman with his verbiage when we think of Cyrano de Bergerac.

But this French poet, playwright and thinker, a contemporary of Boileau and…

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Jun 13 2020
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Almost half of the Earth has not yet received a significant impact from humans

By Sergio Parra portal-3

Although we could have a resource problem or an environmental conflict, the truth is that the Earth is almost empty of humans: we could all fit comfortably on the Iberian Peninsula with a population density similar to…

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Jun 13 2020
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The first thinkers who realized that Earth was just a small dot in a vast universe

By Sergio Parra portal-3

A pale blue dot is a photograph of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe from a distance of 6 billion kilometers. The image shows the Earth as a speck or point of light that is almost imperceptible due to the glare...

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