Category: Anomalous
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Essay: who is it that experiences?
In this short essay, Dr Graham Stew probes the origins of all those thoughts, sensations and perceptions that constitute the lived fabric of our day to day reality. The tool he uses is Phenomenology, a branch of philosophy concerned with methodically exploring our inner subjective world via introspection. Right now, I am conscious of a…
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Book review: Being a Human.
This is a personal travel journal of sorts.The author, Charles Foster wants to know the path we have taken to become the humans we are today. Perhaps more importantly, he wants to explore the possibility that we may have wandered off-track somewhere along the way. To do this he embarks on an immersive journey, re-embodying…
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Is the Big Bang busted?
By now you have probably seen the gobsmackingly beautiful photos from the James Webb Space Telescope. But the majesty and awe these photos evoke are matched by the scientific challenges they are now inflicting on the very theory of the origins of our universe. The Big Bang theory has been the preferred cosmological model for…
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Do jumping spiders dream spider dreams?
Scientific American is reporting on the research of behavioural ecologist Daniela Rößler into the sleep behaviours of jumping spiders. After first observing that these spiders would occasionally hang motionless (and presumably asleep) on the ends of their silk threads, Rößler noticed something interesting.From time to time they would display a distinct twitching. Hmmm, she thought,…
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