https://pocket.averello.info/tags/science/ Recent content in science on Pocket Vault Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us averello Sun, 14 Feb 2021 15:33:01 +0200 https://pocket.averello.info/articles/platonic-solids/ Sun, 14 Feb 2021 15:33:01 +0200 https://pocket.averello.info/articles/platonic-solids/ The Particle: Platonic solids The Particle - The wrong turn that led physics to a dead end © Engineer Xavier Borg - Blaze Labs Platonic Solids & States of matter What's so important about them? Plato's Timaeus conjectures on the composition of the four elements which the ancient Greeks thought made up the universe: earth, water, air, and fire. Plato conjectured each of these elements to be made up of a certain Platonic solid: the element of earth would be a cube, of air an octahedron, of water an icosahedron, and of fire a tetrahedron. https://pocket.averello.info/articles/invisible-manipulators-of-your-mind/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:14:45 +0100 https://pocket.averello.info/articles/invisible-manipulators-of-your-mind/ Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, Stanford, California, 1970sThe behavioral techniques that are being employed by governments and private corporations do not appeal to our reason. The term “propaganda” has been replaced by “a behavioral approach to persuasive communication with quantifiable results.” One We are living in an age in which the behavioral sciences have become inescapable. The findings of social psychology and behavioral economics are being employed to determine the news we read, the products we buy, the cultural and intellectual spheres we inhabit, and the human networks, online and in real life, of which we are a part.