Photo by Spiros Kakos from PexelsIn Greece (and many other countries) there is a saying: After going to the doctor, always go to a second one to get a second opinion! This public wisdom has… Read More
Photo by Dominika Roseclay from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-09-03]: Researchers at ETH Zurich under the direction of ETH Professor Kristina Shea and colleagues at Caltech in… Read More
Photo by Spiros Kakos from PexelsThe big problem of atheists: "Christianity is Bad!" they shout. "Christianity threatens us with Hell!" they scream. "Christianity threatens us with punishmen… Read More
Photo by Spencer Lind from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-08-30]: Scientists use approach analogous to facial-recognition technology to track atomic-scale rearrangements relevan… Read More
House of Commos (source: Wikimedia)The situation in the UK is a big mess.The people decided something democratically via referendum. Others are democratically protesting. To implement this d… Read More
Photo by Spiros Kakos from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-08-26]: A new study showed that, when confronted with physics problems, new parts of a student's brain (not traditional… Read More
Finland is a wonderful country. Everyone knows it. I do too. So I am really sad to write this with a Finnish museum as a motive. Having said that, I want to stress that Finland is awesome an… Read More
Photo by Spiros Kakos from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-08-22]: After a giant asteroid hit Earth about 66 million years ago, the planet’s climate went on a roller coaste… Read More
Photo by Emiliano Arano from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-08-18]: Networks are often described as trees with spanning branches. How the tree branches out depends on the logic… Read More
Photo by Emiliano Arano from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-08-14]: When making decisions, our perception is influenced by judgments we have made in the past as a way of remaini… Read More
Photo by Spiros Kakos from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-08-10]: We’re accustomed to thinking of our cells sharing an identical set of genes, faithfully copied ever since… Read More
Photo by Jose Aragones from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-08-06]: A new innovative battery, without a specifically defined areas of anode and cathode, but with anodes and catho… Read More
Photo by Sushil Ghimire from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-08-02]: The more intelligent a person, the fewer connections there are between the neurons in his cerebral cortex. Th… Read More
Photo by Dương Nhân from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-07-29]: Speakers hesitate or make brief pauses filled with sounds like 'uh' or 'uhm' mostly before nouns… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-07-25]: Using a new computer model, researchers have shown that a fish expends less energy when it swims in a school, because neighbouring fish produce… Read More
Photo by Aron Visuals from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-07-21]: Professor George Mylonakis, from Bristol's Department of Civil Engineering, was invited to join a 16-member res… Read More
Photo by Bisesh Gurung from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-07-17]: Quantum phenomena once thought to be happening under specific conditions or in certain circumstances, are now… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-07-13]: When a sample of Paenibacillus sp., a soil bacteria, is fed a diet of glucose and nutrients in the laboratory and allowed to grow at will, the m… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-07-09]: The 'deep learning' computers in a diagnostic imaging lab routinely defeat their human counterparts in diagnosing heart failure, detecting vario… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-07-05]: Physicists have observed the quantum mechanical Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in a system of several hundred interacting atoms for the first t… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-07-01]: Detecting black holes with the help of gravitational waves. [1] Cell phone images are enhanced artificially, making the mobile phone work as a m… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-06-27]: Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their wor… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-06-23]: New research shows that elevation in an office building can increase someone's willingness to take financial risks because it makes people feel… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2603-01-11]: What is that you read now? Is it an idea? Or electrons and protons organized in a specific way before your eyes? The meaning of a word is never… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-06-19]: Dark matter is still the shyest particle in physics. New observations show that dark matter in galaxy cluster Abell 3827 stubbornly ignores all… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-06-15]: Researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues are using a supercomputer to simulate what happens when two exotic superfluids mix… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-06-11]: The results of a comparison between hydrogen's spectral fingerprints and those of its mirror twin are in, and the news is frustrating – th… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-06-07]: MIT researchers have used physics principles to improve the performance of a machine-learning system, trained on data from a NASA crowdsourcing… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-06-03]: Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Minnesota and Heidelberg showed that people with a higher IQ displayed ‘significantly higher&r&hell…Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-05-30]: The lack of dreams could be messing with your mind. Modern life is squeezing dreams out of our sleep and it could be having serious effects on o… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-05-26]: From floral perfume to fruity body wash and shampoos, scents heavily influence consumer purchases. But for most, the smell doesn't last long aft… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-05-22]: A research has revealed just how knowledgeable Neanderthal healthcare was. The study, by the University of York, reveals that Neanderthal health… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-05-18]: When black holes evaporate, where does the trapped information go? One potential explanation, that the black hole reflects the information inste… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-05-14]: Seeing behind corners. By reflecting light. [1] In the beginning there was nothing. And then came light. Bouncing ever since to the boundaries o… Read More
Photo by Flo Westbrook from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-05-10]: In a 1963 essay recalling his role in discovering the strange-but-true laws of quantum theory, Paul Dirac wrot… Read More
Photo by Lucas Pezeta from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-05-06]: Scientists report that they've built an artificially intelligent ocean predator that behaves a lot like the ori… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-05-02]: Communication is a two-way street. Thanks to quantum mechanics, that adage applies even if you’ve got only one particle to transmit messag… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-04-28]: The presence or absence of a unique brain signal after a listener has heard some speech indicates whether or not that listener has understood wh… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-04-24]: A new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon's water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined… Read More
Photo by Oliver Sjöström from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-04-20]: Physicists insist on determinism: your past and present determine your future uniquely, per Einste… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-04-16]: Our best theory of reality says that something exists only when we look at it. [1] The universe was created at some point. And surely, the knowl… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-04-12]: Through brain imaging, scientists have found evidence that the brain uses eye movements to help people recall vivid moments from the past, pavin… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-04-08]:A recent research showed that robots can learn abstract representations of the world that are useful in planning for multi-step tasks, something… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-04-04]: Scientists have discovered that DNA contains a kind of built-in timer that clocks the frequency with which mutations occur. They show that DNA b… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-03-31]: It has often been claimed that humans learn language using brain components that are specifically dedicated to this purpose. Now, new evidence s… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-03-27]: The mitochondria within our cells seem to be way hotter (up to 50oC) than the rest of our bodies. [1] Every set of things has an average tempera… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-03-23]: Scientists at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences have discovered an entirely new class of ion channels. These channels let p… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-03-19]: Dust is everywhere - not just in your attic or under your bed, but also in outer space. Work from a team of Carnegie cosmochemists published by… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-03-15]: A study provides one of the first looks inside the infant's brain to show where the sense of touch is processed - not just when a baby feels a t… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2019-03-11]: After three decades of hopes tempered by setbacks, gene therapy - the process of treating a disease by modifying a person's DNA - is no longer t… Read More