Perceptions Quarante ans, c’est la vieillesse de la jeunesse, mais cinquante ans, c’est la jeunesse de la vieillesse. Forty is the old age of youth, while fifty is the youth…
read morePerhaps, in the far distant back of times, man in his need to somewhat quantify what he had collected to survive (animals or plants or fruits), needed to count, and…
read moreThe Tower of Babel 1Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. 3They said…
read moreIf all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? —Mary Astell (1666–1731), considered the first English feminist writer Figure 1 compares a chalice (also…
read moreIn a previous article in IEEE Pulse, autism was reviewed, and we discovered, not without surprise, that the condition as now recognized is barely more than 100 years old [1].…
read moreMusic has been prevalent in different societies and cultures since ancient times. It is an expression of human deeds, identity, wishes, understanding of the world, the culture and norms of…
read moreThe Present is Now and, in fact, as soon as “it is,” it becomes “it was,” so much that one feels it did not exist, as a continuum. Not only…
read moreEducation is the most powerful weapon to change the world. —Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) Education is no doubt the foundation of any healthy society. When it is lacking or substandard in…
read moreBlood flowing to the brain keeps it alive, while electrons flowing to inhabited civilized places keep them active, leading to greater understanding of the world. What, however, of those many…
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