A Science Of Human Language - Part #7 Quistic grammar is a predominantly semantic grammar based on the observation that any statement in human language can be re-phrased as one or more simple…

What happens when the pet owners refuse to take the responsibility of the animals litter? They are either turned outdoors as strays or sold back to the pet dealers and puppy mills where they are…

Jeffery Dach, MD claims that this argument is persuasive: Since every man on the street knows that the computer code that runs a program requires  intelligence for its origin, it…

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced some of the basic concepts and steps associated with the development of cognition and how more and more sophisticated responses to problems may have emerged in…

An interesting phenomenon in growing random networks: The number of 3-node, 3-edge connected subgraphs in a random, scale-free network of N nodes scales as N0 (=1). No matter how big your network…

Having been inspired by a series of articles by Becky Jungbauer, I thought it might be useful to explore the basic concept of intelligence and its possible origins. Any creature which has sensory…

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- As operators continue to exhaust the high-income consumer segments in Latin America, the bundling strategies with the best chance of success involve…

NASA watch seems to have been first in noticing the way-cool Star-Trek Style NASA poster, cheerfully shown here in all its glory.  Yes, this is not your parent's NASA... no, wait, it is. …

David Brooks takes on evolutionary psychology and gets it sort of right: The first problem is that far from being preprogrammed with a series of hardwired mental modules, as the E.P. types assert,…

    Part of the enjoyment of doing research is that ideas pop into your head all the time. Everyone has ideas, but the hard part is to choose which should be subjected to critical…