Photo by Valdemaras D. from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-08-04]: Scientists have developed an ultra-light glove - weighing less than 8 grams per finger - that enables users to… Read More
Photo by Valdemaras D. from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-07-31]: Biologists grew human retina tissue from scratch to determine how cells that allow people to see in color are… Read More
Photo by GEORGE DESIPRIS from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-07-27]: Preliminary results from the world's largest sleep study have shown that people who sleep on average between… Read More
Photo by GEORGE DESIPRIS from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-07-23]: Researchers have analyzed the composition and structure of faraway exoplanets using statistical tools. Their… Read More
Photo by stein egil liland from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-07-19]: We experience the world through our senses, a constant torrent of sights, sounds, smells, and more. Our br… Read More
Photo by stein egil liland from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-07-15]: Education improves decision-making ability, study finds. [1] It is unfortunate that you need a lot of educ… Read More
Photo by Rok Romih from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-07-11]: Researchers have shown for the first time that they could teach young sparrows in the wild how to sing a new tune… Read More
Photo by Johannes Rapprich from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-07-07]: Biologists know a lot about how life works, but they are still figuring out why life exists, why it takes… Read More
Aid from the Padre, 1962. (source)We usually forget what is obvious.This photo won a Pulitzer Prize, depicting a priest holding a soldier who dies in Venezuela (details here).We tend to go t… Read More
Photo by Giannis Grevenitis from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-07-03]: Scientists have developed 'neuristor' circuits that behave similarly to biological neurons in the human b… Read More
Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-06-29]: By translating a key human physical skill, whole-body balance, into an equation, engineers used the… Read More
Photo by stein egil liland from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-06-25]: In tiny worms, researchers find spiking neurons and clues about brain computation: Studying neurons in C… Read More
Photo by stein egil liland from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-06-21]: When you move your body in time to a rhythm, your perception of time stretches and contracts. The finding… Read More
Photo by Blue Ox Studio from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-06-17]: Robots are getting smarter [1] We like improving things. But because we are too much focused on that, we are… Read More
Photo by Lola Russian from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-06-13]: Year by year, extreme weather will become more common. [1] But then, what we call now ‘extreme’ wil… Read More
Photo by Alex Fu from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-06-09]: "Are we alone in the universe?" The question has fascinated, tantalized and even disconcerted humans for as long as… Read More
Chicago, 1957: a couple who moved into an all-white neighborhood looking at graffiti in front of their home. [Source: Historic Photographs]Many people are discussing these days the raci… Read More
Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-06-05]: People like the late Stephen Hawking are unable to speak because their muscles are paralyzed. Scientist… Read More
Photo by Luan Oosthuizen from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-05-28]: A novel mathematical approach has uncovered that some animal cells have robust 12-hour cycles of genetic act… Read More
Photo by Francesco Ungaro from PexelsIn the face of the Covid pandemic (coronavirus) many countries imposed nation-wide lockdowns. We are now at the phase of easing those lockdowns. Business… Read More
Photo by stein egil liland from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-05-16]: A mobile app that guides pedestrians along the safest instead of quickest route to their destination is be… Read More
Photo by Harrison Haines from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-05-12]: Society has encouraged people to be more physically active, yet we are actually becoming less active. This n… Read More
Photo by Octopus soul from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-05-08]: Researchers showed that part of the macaque brain alters the sense of value felt upon receiving a reward in a m… Read More
Photo by Emre Kuzu from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-05-04]: Scientists have used machine learning to train computers to see parts of the cell the human eye cannot easily dist… Read More
Photo by stein egil liland from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-04-30]: Ediacara biota, Earth's first macroscopic animals, were forming complex communities tens of millions of ye… Read More
Photo by Oleg Magni from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-04-26]: What if roadkill piled beside the road and never decomposed? What if massive fish kills washed up on beaches and… Read More
Photo by stein egil liland from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-04-22]: Particle physicists are on the hunt for light. Not just any light, but a characteristic signal produced by… Read More
Who hasn't heard of conspiracies about the coronavirus. It was built in a laboratory, the Chinese unleashed it at the Americans, the Americans threw it at the Chinese, it was used as a biolo… Read More
Photo by Spiros Kakos from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-04-18]: Laughter exposes something essentially human. But Bergson’s very interest in laughter and the comic might… Read More
Nowadays, all Christians are so … Christians that they don’t even think about the obvious.That if we lived in a time when Christ appeared, we would crucify Him too.Think. A dirt… Read More
Photo by Spiros Kakos from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-04-14]: Why do some people trust their gut instincts over logic? It could be that they see those snap decisions as a mo… Read More
Photo by Mari Pankova from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-04-10]: Wind and solar farms are known to have local effects on heat, humidity and other factors that may be beneficial… Read More
Photo by Matt Hardy from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-04-06]: Showing prejudice towards others does not require a high level of cognitive ability and could easily be exhibited… Read More
Photo by Wendy Wei from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-04-02]: Using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, an international team has discovered a new exoplanet twice the size… Read More
Photo by Jose Aragones from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-03-29]: Unravelling the reasons why mass extinctions occur. [1] We are so much worried about events of mass extinction… Read More
Photo by Jeremy Bishop from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-03-25]: The 'chicken or egg' paradox was first proposed by philosophers in Ancient Greece to describe the problem of d… Read More
Photo by Octopus soul from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-03-21]: New findings suggest that feedback, rather than hard evidence, boosts people's sense of certainty when learning… Read More
Photo by Octopus soul from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-03-17]: Students using contract cheating to write their assignments. [1] Writers writing via ghost writers. [2] An era… Read More
Photo by Octopus soul from PexelsMany talk about the coronavirus. Many have opinions. Many theories. And one theory that is starting to gain a lot of followers is the one that England has de… Read More
Photo by Tom and Sini from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-03-13]: Researchers detail a neural-network model that can be unleashed on raw text and audio data from interviews to d… Read More
Photo by Spiros Kakos from PexelsIn light of the coronavirus, many talk about the need to shut down churches, socialize only on the Internet, banish Christianity and declare Science as our n… Read More
Photo by Pixabay from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-03-09]: Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory induced a two-dimensional material to canniba… Read More
There is a lot of discussion about the new coronavirus affecting the world as we speak. Harmonia Philosophica usually does not deal with such news since our focus is philosophy and not every… Read More
Photo by David Bartus from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-03-05]: Only two astronauts have ever quit from NASA. The second one for ‘personal reasons’. [1] Our societ… Read More
Photo by Carlos César from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-03-01]: After their recent pioneering experiments to couple light and matter to an extreme degree, Rice Universi… Read More
Photo by Elina Sazonova from PexelsPhilosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-02-26]: Disruptive noise is almost everywhere, from people talking in the office corridor to road construction down t… Read More
Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2020-02-22]: In 2018, more than a dozen of the hunger stones could be seen around Děčín, recording the low water levels of years and centuri… Read More