quarta-feira, 31 de dezembro de 2014

58% dos estudantes portugueses prefere trabalhar por conta de outrem a ser empresário

58% dos estudantes portugueses prefere trabalhar por conta de outrem a ser empresário http://noticias.universia.pt/empleo/noticia/2014/12/23/1117544/58-estudantes-portugueses-prefere-trabalhar-conta-outrem-empresario.html

Bill Granger recipes: Our chef's breakfasts will revitalise you in time for the New Year

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/bill-granger-recipes-if-youve-overindulged-during-the-party-season-our-chef-has-the-remedy-fresh-healthy-breakfasts-that-will-revitalise-you-in-time-for-the-new-year-9943962.html

for the PhD grad: What's the key to a successful career change?

http://careers.theguardian.com/key-successful-career-change?CMP=new_1194

scientist with microscope

segunda-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2014

What the world values, in one chart - Vox

What the world values, in one chart - Vox:

(from a S Carroll fcbk post):

Values survey

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Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip, December 31, 1995 on GoComics.com

Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip, December 31, 1995 on GoComics.com:

Calvin and Hobbes

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Blog - physicsworld.com - Commercializing physics: how to translate ideas into business

Blog - physicsworld.com: "Commercializing physics: how to translate ideas into business"

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NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars - Astrobiology Magazine

NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars - Astrobiology Magazine:

This illustration portrays possible ways methane might be added to Mars' atmosphere (sources) and removed from the atmosphere (sinks). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SAM-GSFC/Univ. of Michigan

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Can graphene harvest energy from thin air? - CNN.com

Can graphene harvest energy from thin air? - CNN.com:

Graphene - which has a similar molecular structure to the graphite commonly found in pencils - was discovered in 2004. The material is two-dimensional, one atom thick, has superconducting properties, and is 200 times stronger than steel.

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Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics | Science | Smithsonian


























Why String Theory Still Offers Hope We Can Unify Physics | Science | Smithsonian:


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APOD: 2014 December 25 - This Comet Lovejoy

APOD: 2014 December 25 - This Comet Lovejoy:

Up there on Christmas eve, really!!! Mind you, will be back only after 8,000 years...

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Big Idea 2015: Let's Rethink the Bachelor's Degree | Jeff Selingo | LinkedIn

Big Idea 2015: Let's Rethink the Bachelor's Degree | Jeff Selingo | LinkedIn:

Article cover image

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BBC News - Sun's sizzling X-rays photographed from space

BBC News - Sun's sizzling X-rays photographed from space:

sun

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APOD: 2014 December 23 - The Cliffs of Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko

APOD: 2014 December 23 - The Cliffs of Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko:

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correlation vs causation

http://qz.com/316826/mathematicians-have-finally-figured-out-how-to-tell-correlation-from-causation/

Not yet the magna carta or that 177-something chart but

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-hammurabis-code

Close-up of the inscriptions on the stele (Credit: Getty Images)


Cricket. Downunder. And exciting to follow

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/30615316

India batsmen Ajinkya Rahane (centre) and Virat Kohli (right) limited the impact of Australia pace bowler Mitchell Johnson

Sesame Street: Ian McKellen Teaches Cookie Monster to Resist




Top Shakeaspeare performer meets Cookie Monster. Superb. And delicious!!!!!!


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Islands on sale for price of a car | The Sunday Times

Islands on sale for price of a car | The Sunday Times:

Eilean Righ, off the Argyll coast, has its own helicopter hangar

Sort of Craggy Island

Alt=Series title over the sea

May be fun....

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Bristol taps away to be first smart city | The Sunday Times

Bristol taps away to be first smart city | The Sunday Times:

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New way to funding opens for Portuguese SMEs - European Commission

New way to funding opens for Portuguese SMEs - European Commission: "A new European Union loan guarantee facility for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has launched in Portugal. The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the Portuguese bank Banco BPI signed today the first "InnovFin SME Guarantee" agreement in the country."

European Commission homepage

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xyzseries - great for one of those winter nights, waiting for the ghost of Christmas past... or future (!)

xyzseries:

XYZ Book Series


XYZ Press publications utilize competition math as the vehicle for introducing students from middle school through college to the elegance of problem-solving through a wide variety of mathematical topics and difficulty levels. Emphasis is placed on developing mathematical insight through interesting problems, many of which employ clever strategies to engage and delight the reader. 

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SME Instrument proposals received...

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(from a D Gomes post):

SME Instrument proposals received for deadline of 17 December 2014

CEO at Octopux Consulting | Expert in Horizon 2020, SME Instrument, ERASMUS+, Eurostars & EU Procurement (Bid writer)Top Contributor
The total number of SME Instrument proposals submitted for 17 December 2014's deadline is as follows:
- Phase 1 (Feasibility Study): 2363 proposals received.
- Phase 2 (Innovation/Demonstration Project): 629 proposals received.

Stay tuned for the statistics (to be published in January 2015)!

SIC Notícias - Expresso da Meia Noite 19 Dez

SIC Notícias - Expresso da Meia Noite:



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The rise of astrostatistics | symmetry magazine

The rise of astrostatistics | symmetry magazine:



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A simply superb awesome photo, right in front of 10 that street...

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Eurostars-2 application system is now open - Submission deadline: 05 March 2015 - EUREKA News - EUREKA




















Eurostars-2 application system is now open - Submission deadline: 05 March 2015 - EUREKA News - EUREKA: "With a total public budget of €1.14 billion, Eurostars is a funding programme specially designed for research-performing small and medium sized enterprises (R&D-performing SMEs) developing innovative products, processes and services, and is currently supported by 34 Eurostars countries and the European Union."


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Viver no interior do país é aborrecido? <- Provocador mas a ler ... | P3

Viver no interior do país é aborrecido | P3:

(de um post no Fcbk de T Lima):

 Pedro Rebelo Pereira é licenciado em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade

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Stand back, revamped Hadron collider is going for the big one | The Sunday Times

Stand back, revamped Hadron collider is going for the big one | The Sunday Times:

The upgraded machine could offer insights into black holes, as depicted in the sci-fi blockbuster Interstellar

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Climate change alters taste of wine | The Sunday Times

Climate change alters taste of wine | The Sunday Times:

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Engineers rule China. Lawyers lead the US. We get bluffers and blaggers | The Sunday Times

Engineers rule China. Lawyers lead the US. We get bluffers and blaggers | The Sunday Times:





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Raising Ambitions: The Challenge in Teaching at Community Colleges - NYTimes.com

Raising Ambitions: The Challenge in Teaching at Community Colleges - NYTimes.com:



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A great number...

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"It is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."- only when you are mad with numbers, they will reveal such stuff to your brain to surprise the whole world. Then what to say about the below one?



(from a great post by R Nair in G+)
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APOD: 2014 December 27 - The Winter Shower

APOD: 2014 December 27 - The Winter Shower:

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In winter’s grip | The Sunday Times

In winter’s grip | The Sunday Times:

or a book about Winterreise. A must have. A must read. A must listen.

& U can try to play along, I guess...



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What interpretation of quantum mechanics do you like the most? | Debate.org

What interpretation of quantum mechanics do you like the most? | Debate.org:

(from an aknowledged  post in Facebook by J Pullin):




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Many-worlds interpretation

The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories an...   more
5 votes
2 comments
2

Montevideo Interpretation

This new interpretation of quantum mechanics solves the problems of the use of environmental decoherence as a solution to the problem of measurement in quantum mechanics. It does so invoking fundamental limitations in the process of measurement in q...    more
2 votes
1 comment
3

Consistent histories interpretation

In quantum mechanics, the consistent histories approach is intended to give a modern interpretation of quantum mechanics, generalising the conventional Copenhagen interpretation and providing a natural interpretation of quantum cosmology. This inter...   more
1 vote
0 comments
4

De Broglie–Bohm theory

The de Broglie–Bohm theory, also known as the pilot-wave theory, Bohmian mechanics, the Bohm or Bohm's interpretation, and the causal interpretation, is an interpretation of quantum theory. In addition to a wavefunction on the space of all possible ...    more
0 votes
0 comments
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Relational quantum mechanics

Relational quantum mechanics is an interpretation of quantum mechanics which treats the state of a quantum system as being observer-dependent, that is, the state is the relation between the observer and the system. This interpretation was first deli...    more
0 votes
0 comments
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Transactional interpretation

The transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics describes quantum interactions in terms of a standing wave formed by both retarded waves, in addition to advanced waves. It was first proposed in 1986 by John G. Cramer, who argues that it helps...    more
0 votes
0 comments
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Stochastic interpretation

The stochastic interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics.The modern application of stochastics to quantum mechanics involves the assumption of spacetime stochasticity, the idea that the small-scale structure of spacetime is undergoing...    more
0 votes
0 comments
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Objective collapse theory

Objective collapse theories, also known as quantum mechanical spontaneous localization models, are an approach to the interpretational problems of quantum mechanics. They are realistic, indeterministic and reject hidden variables. The approach is si...    more
0 votes
0 comments
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Von Neumann–Wigner interpretation

The von Neumann–Wigner interpretation, also described as "consciousness causes collapse [of the wave function]", is an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which consciousness is postulated to be necessary for the completion of the process of quan...    more
0 votes
0 comments
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Many-minds interpretation

The many-minds interpretation of quantum mechanics extends the many-worlds interpretation by proposing that the distinction between worlds should be made at the level of the mind of an individual observer. The concept was first introduced in 1970 by...    more
0 votes
0 comments
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Quantum logic

In quantum mechanics, quantum logic is a set of rules for reasoning about propositions that takes the principles of quantum theory into account. This research area and its name originated in the 1936 paper by Garrett Birkhoff and John von Neumann, w...    more
0 votes
0 comments
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Quantum informational approaches

In physics and computer science, quantum information is physical information that is held in the state of a quantum system. Quantum information is the basic entity that is studied in the burgeoning field of quantum information theory, and manipulate...   more
0 votes
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Time-symmetric theories

Several theories have been proposed which modify the equations of quantum mechanics to be symmetric with respect to time reversal. (E.G. See Wheeler-Feynman time-symmetric theory). This creates retrocausality: events in the future can affect ones in...    more
0 votes
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Branching space–time theories

BST theories resemble the many worlds interpretation; however, "the main difference is that the BST interpretation takes the branching of history to be a feature of the topology of the set of events with their causal relationships... Rather than a c...   more
0 votes
0 comments
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Instrumentalist interpretation

An Instrumentalist interpretation is a description of quantum experiments.This article aims at proposing a non-interpretative description of some key quantum experiments, based as far as possible on genuine facts, although there is no criterion for ...   more
0 votes
0 comments
16

Hydrodynamic Interpretation

The Madelung equations are Erwin Madelung's equivalent alternative formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
0 votes
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Calogero conjecture

The Calogero conjecture is a minority interpretation of quantum mechanics. It is a quantization explanation involving quantum mechanics, originally stipulated in 1997 and further republished in 2004 by Francesco Calogero that suggests the classical ...   more
0 votes
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Landé Interpretation

In late 1929 Landé was invited to Ohio State University in Columbus, to present a series of lectures. After a second stay (1930-1931) in Columbus, Ohio, he decided to establish himself in the United States. Landé was a forerunner in a phase of new i...   more
0 votes
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Two-state vector formalism

The two-state vector formalism is a description of quantum mechanics in terms of a causal relation in which the present is caused by quantum states of the past and of the future taken in combination.
0 votes
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Pondicherry Interpretation

This interpretation proceeds from the recognition that the fundamental theoretical framework of physics is a probability algorithm, which serves to describe an objective fuzziness (the literal meaning of Heisenberg’s term ‘Unsch¨arfe’, usually mistr...    more
0 votes
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London (Ticker Tape) Interpretation

In recent years there has been a move away from the Copenhagen Interpretation towards alternative interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. There has also been an acknowledgement that there is no definitive version of the Copenhagen Interpretation becau...    more
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Quantum Bayesianism

Quantum Bayesianism most often refers to a "subjective Bayesian account of quantum probability", that has evolved primarily from the work of Carlton M. Caves, Christopher Fuchs and Rüdiger Schack, and draws from the fields of quantum information and...    more
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Synchronized Chaos Interpretation

Synchronization of chaos refers to a process wherein two (or many) chaotic systems (either equivalent or nonequivalent) adjust a given property of their motion to a common behavior due to a coupling or to a forcing (periodical or noisy). We review m...   more
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Cosmological interpretation of quantum mechanics

The cosmological interpretation of quantum mechanics, proposed by Anthony Aguirre and Max Tegmark, is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that applies in the context of eternal cosmological inflation, which arguably predicts an infinite three-dim...    more
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Popper's interpretation

Popper's experiment is an experiment proposed by the philosopher Karl Popper. As early as 1934 he was suspicious of, and was proposing experiments to test, the Copenhagen interpretation, a popular subjectivist interpretation of quantum mechanics. Po...    more
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Hidden-measurements interpretation

The hidden-measurements interpretation, also known as the hidden-measurements approach, is a realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics that was proposed in the 1980's by the Belgian physicist Diederik Aerts, and was subsequently developed over t...    more
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One of the minority interpretations that the poll creator didn't bother including because they all were part of long PDF files.

Who put you up to this?
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I don't know what any of these mean...

Understandable.
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Copenhagen interpretation

The Copenhagen interpretation is a collection of axioms or doctrines that interpret the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics, largely devised in the years 1925–1927 by Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. It is fundamental to the Copenhagen inte...    more
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Ensemble interpretation

The ensemble interpretation, or statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics, is an interpretation that can be viewed as a minimalist interpretation; it is a quantum mechanical interpretation that claims to make the fewest assumptions associated ...    more
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