Month: February 2015

Enhancing Virtues: Fairness (Pt 2)

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Fairness is a liberal virtue rooted in instinctive aversion to cheating and inequality, but then filtered through prefrontal cognition.  Since the spread of Enlightenment values fairness has grown in importance as a virtue, especially for liberals with stronger prefrontal cortices and weaker amygdalas. Fairness finds less support among conservatives for whom respect for authority, ingroup loyalty and disgust/sanctity are more neurologically salient. What impact do social policy and individual practices have on the influence of fairness and cognitive biases?

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Garden Sage: Leaf cutter ants are tough to manage – Arizona Daily Star

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Garden Sage: Leaf cutter ants are tough to manage
Arizona Daily Star
Q: We have a problem with ants that denude various plants in our yard. We used diatomaceous earth heavily last year but without much effect. Is there anything else we can use that would be effective but have no or low toxicity to pets, chickens …

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Brandon Paul continues his strong play with some big fourth-quarter shots in … – Canton Repository

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Brandon Paul continues his strong play with some big fourth-quarter shots in …
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Paul’s clutch shooting and a rock-steady Canton defense led the Charge to an 88-79 win against the Fort Wayne Mad Ants at Memorial Civic Center. “I came in (at halftime) and guys said, ‘Forget about it. You’ve got another half,’ ” Paul said. “So that’s …

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When holidaymakers swarm like ants – Stuff.co.nz

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When holidaymakers swarm like ants
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She says ever since the Rugby World Cup in 2011 and the recent sealing of the only road into the settlement, there’s been a huge rise in ants, and "we’d rather they weren’t here". Namely: freedom campers, motorhome drivers, and tourists renting Otama’s …

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What We’re Reading This Week Across the Web (Through Feb 28)

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Enjoy this week’s stories! ROBOTS: Will Robots Be Able to Help Us Die? Graham Templeton | Motherboard "From robo-assisted suicide to commercial drone use in urban areas, robots will create new… read more

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The danger of artificial stupidity

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It is not often that you are obliged to proclaim a much-loved international genius wrong, but in the alarming prediction made recently regarding Artificial Intelligence and the future of humankind, I believe Professor Stephen Hawking is. Well to be precise, being a theoretical physicist — in an echo of Schrödinger’s cat, famously both dead and alive at the same time — I believe the Professor is both wrong and right at the same time.

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Offense falls short as Ants lose on road – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

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Offense falls short as Ants lose on road
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The Mad Ants scored their fewest amount of points since opening night and lost 88-79 on Friday night at Canton, Ohio. It was a rare night in which Andre Emmett didn’t lead the Mad Ants in scoring – he had 18 points on 6-of-17 shooting – as rookie C.J …

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