The answer is simple: it’s because we don’t live under socialism. — Welcome to capitalism “You don’t hate Mondays, you hate capitalism.” Says the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. There is already a lot of technology in the world, however, it has not helped us solve the problems arising from economic inequality. There are still, for example, long working hours, poverty, and unemployment. Which is very…

That’s what Dirk Helbing, professor at ETH Zürich and computer scientist, is trying to do, and here’s what I think may happen. — Computer Scientists Predicting The Future Dirk Helbing, professor at ETH Zürich, was the main responsible for a project named FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crysis Relief System which is a computing system that would help predict the future. The core of the system is the Living Earth Simulator, a computing machine that attempts to simulate the…

Says Bertrand Russell and Wilhelm Reich (while Leandro Konder offers a second opinion). — Introduction What does it mean to say: there can only be a psychology of fascism? It means to say that fascism is a pathology and that it is incapable of sustaining itself as a rational, or consistent, philosophy. This phrase promotes, I would say, a way of underestimating fascism but authors…

And everything you must know about them — Measuring Sexiness by Popularity Why list most popular porn models, and not Instagram users, or Twitter users? Well, the most-followed people on Instagram and Twitter are followed by reasons other than sex. …

Do it and you will get more benefits from writing here (besides being curated or featured). — It’s not easy to be sure you’re doing a good job here. At some point, you’ve probably questioned yourself if you’re choosing the right subjects, the right images, the right publications, or writing well enough. It’s really hard to get accurate answers to all that, but I can help you…

Ultimately stagnating some technological advances and social progress. — The illusion of a forever useful capitalism Some interesting things happen when society lets money rule the world. First of all, those who don’t have money have to fight the hardest they can to be included in the paycheck. This means the working class has to be desperately useful to the rich class to live. This can…

Or between science and skepticism. — Science work is always deterministic? Hopefully yes but not necessarily… Science tries its best to know all it can about nature. So, if nature is completely determinable, then, yes, everything would fall under determinism. However, scientists from all areas also state that nature seems never tired of surprising us. It’s as if to summon a…

And why it has and continues to work well after more than a decade in Japan. —

So why is Cantor’s Set Theory still considered flawed? — Set Theory is the greatest mathematical-logical invention since Leibniz's functions Leibniz dreamed of a Characteristica Universalis (a universal formal language that would be used on logical analysis of concepts or on structures of scientific systems) to become a reality, and that’s exactly what Cantor’s Set Theory helps us achieve. From numbers to functions, syllogisms, or subway train cars in Japan…