In February 2007, Ptolemaic Productions acquired the rights to The Singularity Is Near, The Age of Spiritual Machines, and Fantastic Voyage, including the rights to film Kurzweil's life and ideas for the documentary film Transcendent Man, which was directed by Barry Ptolemy. Transcend: Nine Steps...
"Either... the Big Bang is blown away or ... there is something else going on'." The Astrophysical Journalreportedon a "vital test of the present cosmological paradigm" i.e., the big bang, that "taken at face value, one may even...
We used the Chi square test to determine two critical threshold values, rl at which P(s) start to deviate from GOE at a confidence level of p = 0.001, and rh at which P(s) follows the Poisson distribution at a confidence level of p = 0.001. The critical point rh is chosen to be ...
A plant’s hydraulic machinery places key constraints on how much water it can transpire and, consequently, on its stomatal conductance. Considerable effort has gone into the development of stomatal control models with an explicit treatment of plant hydraulics (see reviews12,13). Hydraulically explici...
The first one-third of this period, so ably described by Mulliken and V an Vleck, was necessarily concerned wi th identifying the electronic nature of the band, andin escaping from the thought-forms of the physicist, domin-ated by the centre of symmetry in an isolated atom, so that the ...
Let us not lose hope. What fascinates us about these ancient times is their distant mystery. Yet, they are both far away and near enough for us to dare to take a step, to bridge the gap. Let us first admit that we might be mistaken. Then strive to distance ourselves from this peril...
other gaze features. Importantly, this finding seems sensible and might indicate that more successful players experienced lower cognitive load, which is reflected in their gaze behavior. To test this assumption we conducted additional analyses (see Sect.3.4Additional Analyses) which showed exactly the ...
Second, SMC subjects in our clinic have had a comprehensive screening with proven test methods, after which no objective impairments are found. The absence of cognitive impairment in this group might be more reliable then in a so-called 'healthy' control group who have not participated in ...
This is a particularly significant test because the rates at different centre-of-mass energies and, for each energy, at different values of pT, span many orders of magnitude. This steep behaviour is determined by the sharp droppin the parton densities with increasing x. Moreover, the ...
This paper argues that the origins of language can be detected one million years ago, if not earlier, in the archaeological record of Homo erectus. This co