September 2010
CONTINUOUS COHOMOLOGY AND REAL HOMOTOPY TYPE
http://www.ams.org/journals/tran/1989-311-01/S0002-9947-1989-0929667-6/S0002-9947-1989-0929667-6.pdf
http://projecteuclid.org.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.dmj/1077289844
In this paper we investigate various aspects of homotopy theory in the category of simplicial spaces, the topics covered being continuous cohomology,...
The Dumbest Generation
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1585427128/sr=8-1/qid=1285878505/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=507846&s=gateway&qid=1285878505&sr=8-1
http://www.popecenter.org/clarion_call/article.html?id=2038
Higher Education? is a book that critics left and...
http://www.popecenter.org/clarion_call/article.html?id=2398
India's surprising economic miracle: The country’s...
http://www.economist.com/node/17147648/print
http://www.economist.com/node/17145035/print
No doubt a strong central government would have given India a less chaotic Commonwealth games, but there is more to life than badminton and rhythmic gymnastics. India’s state may be weak, but its private companies are strong. Indian capitalism is driven by millions of entrepreneurs all furiously doing...
Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/0226245349/sr=8-4/qid=1285872557/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=507846&s=gateway&qid=1285872557&sr=8-4
From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to...
Black holes
http://www.economist.com/node/17035953/print
The evidence suggests that black holes more than a billion times heavier than the sun were around less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang.
Lucio Mayer, of the University of Zurich, and his colleagues are now offering an alternative explanation, which they published in a recent issue of Nature. Dr Mayer knew from previous research that the ...
FOR COMPLEX ORIENTATIONS PRESERVING POWER...
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0910/0910.3187v3.pdf
We show, for primes p<=13 , that a number of well-known MU(p)-rings do not admit the structure of commutative MU(p)-algebras. These spectra have complex orientations that factor through the Brown-Peterson spectrum and correspond to p-typical formal group laws. We provide computations showing that such a factorization is incompatible with...
America’s Epicurean Liberalism
http://nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20100918_Hawley_pdf%5B1%5D.pdf
The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus taught that individual happiness was the aim of living and that pleasure was the sum of happiness. He would have loved 21st-century America. Ours is a distinctly epicurean culture, from our arts and literature right down to our sports and popular entertainment. Self-fulfillment is our great...
Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness
http://www.amazon.com/Theodore-Roosevelt-Joshua-David-Hawley/dp/0300120109/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285854635&sr=1-1
Often dismissed by scholars as an opportunistic politician whose ideas lacked historical import, Theodore Roosevelt has been underestimated as a thinker. But to disdain Roosevelt’s politics is to overlook his important and lasting contributions to the shape...
Relativism, Pragmatism and the Practice of Science
http://faculty.washington.edu/afine/Relativism.pdf
“But science in the making, science as an end to be pursued, is as subjective and psychologically conditioned as any other branch of human endeavor— so much so that the question, What is the purpose and meaning of science? receives quite different answers at different times and from different sorts of people” (Einstein 1934, p....
Noncommuting Observables and Local Realism
http://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/0505/0505016.pdf
A standard approach in the foundations of quantum mechanics studies local realism and hidden variables models exclusively in terms of violations of Bell-like inequalities. Thus quantum nonlocality is tied to the celebrated no-go theorems, and these comprise a long list that includes the Kochen-Specker and Bell theorems, as well as elegant...
THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE TWENTY YEARS LATER
http://faculty.washington.edu/afine/Scientific%20Image.pdf
My understanding of Dewey’s instrumentalism, then, is that it represents an attitude toward inquiry in general, and not a specific epistemology or semantics for science, or for unobservables. The attitude is to treat the activity of inquiry, like other human endavors, as having an end; namely, that in inquiry we strive for concepts and...
Solitons, Instantons, and Twistors
http://www.amazon.com/Solitons-Instantons-Twistors-Graduate-Mathematics/dp/0198570635/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285851065&sr=1-1
Most nonlinear differential equations arising in natural sciences admit chaotic behavior and cannot be solved analytically. Integrable systems lie on the other extreme. They possess regular, stable, and well behaved solutions known as solitons and...
Statistical Field Theory: An Introduction to...
http://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Field-Theory-Introduction-Graduate/dp/0199547580/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285850804&sr=1-2
This book provides a thorough introduction to the fascinating world of phase transitions as well as many related topics, including random walks, combinatorial problems, quantum field theory and S-matrix. Fundamental concepts of phase transitions, such...
The Many Facets of Geometry
http://www.amazon.com/Many-Facets-Geometry-Tribute-Hitchin/dp/0199534926/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285850273&sr=8-1
Topology, C*-Algebras, and String
Duality
http://www.amazon.com/Topology—Algebras-Regional-Conference-Mathematics/dp/0821849220/ref=sr_1_2?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285850273&sr=8-2
Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
http://www.amazon.com/Oxford-Handbook-History-Mathematics-Handbooks/dp/0199213127/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285850035&sr=8-1
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it. It addresses questions of who creates mathematics, who uses it, and how. A...
General Relativity and the Einstein Equations
http://www.amazon.com/Relativity-Einstein-Equations-Mathematical-Monographs/dp/0199230722/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285846810&sr=8-1
General Relativity has passed all experimental and observational tests to model the motion of isolated bodies with strong gravitational fields, though the mathematical and numerical study of these motions is still in its infancy. It is...
Sparks fly over origin of altruism
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827804.100-sparks-fly-over-origin-of-altruism.html?full=true&print=true
The Good Society: An Introduction to Comparative...
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Society-Introduction-Comparative-Politics/dp/0321432177/ref=sr_1_2?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285843987&sr=8-2
Combining thematic and country approaches to show students what comparative politics is really about, The Good Society organizes itself around a key question—why are some countries better than others at improving their citizens’ lives? This brief...
Coreshine from a Dark Cloud
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Stars and their planets are born in cold, dark, interstellar clouds of gas and dust. While exploring the clouds at infrared wavelengths, astronomers have made a surprising discovery — dozens of cases where dense cloud cores shine by reflecting infrared starlight. Based on archival Spitzer Space Telescope data, these panels illustrate the newly...
Just How Small is the Proton? New findings...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=just-how-small-is-the-proton&print=true
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late...
http://www.amazon.com/Emerging-Adulthood-Winding-through-Twenties/dp/0195309375/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285766992&sr=1-1
Recently the lives of people from age 18 to 29 have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed, emerging adulthood, that is distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it and the young adulthood that comes in its wake. Rather than...
Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in...
http://www.amazon.com/Parenting-Out-Control-Anxious-Uncertain/dp/0814758533/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285764792&sr=1-1
They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child’s path to greatness … or at least...
THE WORLD: AN UNRULY MESS
http://www.springerlink.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/content/m174751523862208/fulltext.pdf
“We live in a dappled world, a world rich in different things, with different natures, behaving in different ways. The laws that describe this world are a patchwork, not a pyramid”
Cartwright sees her approach as akin to that of Dupré’s plea for ‘the disorder of things’ and ‘the disunity of science’. Her...
Google's Schmidt: Computers 'Augmenting' Humanity
http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=255030,00.asp?hidPrint=true
“One way to think about this is we’re trying to make people better people, literally give them better ideas, [and] augmenting their experience,” he told Rose. “Think of it as augmented humanity – think of it as trying to get the computers to help us at the things we’re not very good at and...
White Coat, Black Hat: Adventures on the Dark Side...
http://www.amazon.com/White-Coat-Black-Hat-Adventures/dp/0807061425/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285756339&sr=8-1
Over the last twenty-five years, medicine and consumerism have been on an unchecked collision course, but, until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be fully uncovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the ...
“When people cease to find meaning in work, when...
Interlocking worlds and Cartwright's Dappled World
The central message that Bohr and vonNeumann taught us about the Standard Quantum Logic is that it can be viewed as a manifold of interlocking perspectives that cannot be embedded into a single perspective. Hence, the perspectives cannot be viewed as perspectives on one real world. So, even considering one world as a methodological principle breaks down in the quantum...
CONTRA CARTWRIGHT: STRUCTURAL REALISM, ONTOLOGICAL...
http://www.springerlink.com.proxy-remote.galib.uga.edu/content/pl306r6244547180/fulltext.pdf
Category Theory
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/category-theory/
Category theory has come to occupy a central position in contemporary mathematics and theoretical computer science, and is also applied to mathematical physics. Roughly, it is a general mathematical theory of structures and of systems of structures. As category theory is still evolving, its functions are correspondingly developing, expanding and...
Against ‘The System’, Nancy Cartwright
http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/10065/964/1/N_Cartwright_System.pdf
Throughout the history of science people have dreamt of one grand consistent scheme that can encompass all possible scientific knowledge. I defend instead the view of my hero, Otto Neurath, one of the founders of the Vienna Circle: “’The system’ is the one big scientific lie.”2 I do not argue, however, that there is...
CAPACITIES, NATURES AND PLURALISM: A NEW...
http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/pmenzies/cartwright.PDF
Cartwright proposes a novel metaphysics for science that repudiates the fundamentalist view that the world conforms to a single set of simple and elegant laws in favour of the view that the world is a dappled array of phenomena—sometimes ordered and often times not—that conform, at best, to an untidy patchwork of laws.
DAPPLED THEORIES IN A UNIFORM WORLD
http://www.unc.edu/~gsmunc/Colloquium2002/Sklar.pdf
One thing is certain. The view that our explanatory schemes reveal to us our ontological commitments must take account of the possibility that an explanatory conceptualization might be meant to apply to a system in some way that is not naively realist. However one deals with this subtlety, though, the question will still be open: Are the...
If you do something really nice for someone,...
How Scientific Practices Matter: Reclaiming...
http://www.amazon.com/How-Scientific-Practices-Matter-Philosophical/dp/0226730085/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285699993&sr=8-1
How can we understand the world as a whole instead of separate natural and human realms? Joseph T. Rouse proposes an approach to this classic problem based on radical new conceptions of both philosophical naturalism and scientific practice. Rouse...
Postmodernism
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/postmodernism/
Philosophy of Education
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/education-philosophy/
The Value of Positive Emotions The emerging...
http://www.unc.edu/peplab/publications/value.pdf
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIeFJCqsPs&feature=related
Positive Emotions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_9Df6dK7c
Our goal is to uncover the universal recipe for...
http://www.unc.edu/peplab/purpose.html
You have -- within you -- the fuel to thrive...
http://www.unc.edu/peplab/purpose.html
Mapping the Brain on a Massive Scale Scanning...
http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=26347&channel=Briefings§ion=PersonalizedMedicine
K-NFB launches free e-reader software to...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/k-nfb-launches-free-e-reader-software-to-revolutionize-e-book-reading-experience
He is right. He's right and he's...
2030: Technology That Will Change the World
http://www.amazon.com/2030-Technology-That-Change-World/dp/0195377176/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285680010&sr=8-1
Imagine living in 1958, and knowing that the integrated circuit—the microchip—was about to be invented, and would revolutionize the world. Or imagine 1992, when the Internet was about to transform virtually every aspect of our lives. Incredibly, this...
Crashing galaxy clusters may turbocharge cosmic...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19500-crashing-galaxy-clusters-may-turbocharge-cosmic-rays.html?full=true&print=true
Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to...
http://www.amazon.com/Positivity-Groundbreaking-Research-Strength-Negativity/dp/0307393739/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285677716&sr=8-1
Positive psychology pioneer Fredrickson introduces readers to the power of harnessing happiness to transform their lives, backed up by impressive lab research. The author lays out the core truths and 10 forms of positivity—joy, gratitude,...
How to be happy (but not too much)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727791.000-how-to-be-happy-but-not-too-much.html?full=true&print=true
One thing that is clear is that once life’s basics are paid for, the power of money to bring happiness is limited. In fact, it can be positively harmful to our sense of well-being.
So just what is it that makes us happy? Happiness can take the form of many different positive...
Jean Jacques Rousseau
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rousseau/
