A business becomes a corporation by joining a stock market where its shares can be bought and sold by anyone at free market prices, whatever people think the shares are worth at the time.
Owning shares in a corporation gives you votes for its top level board of directors and in many cases dividend payments which are a fraction chosen by the...
Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies
Quantitative modeling of human brain activity can provide crucial insights about cortical representations [1 and 2] and can form the basis for brain decoding devices [3, 4 and 5]. Recent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have modeled brain activity...
From gamma
I'm glad that I kept this account.
Even though I haven't been here at all to speak of, it's nice to have a place to come back to and leave random thoughts. I'm having a wager with myself regarding the quality of life in the next several weeks: will it improve or degrade? I think my money is on improve, or at least NOT degrade. That's an...
(A very liberating story of and on freedom based on a personal letter, which you shouldn't believe and neither do I, but then here it is)
My dear friend,
You asked me, in truth and simplicity, why it was so difficult to be free?
And my first answer need be:
Forget truth and simplicity- aim for elegance of thought; the reason, if you...
“Since the dawn of their time humans have been dependent on the natural forces of the earth. Managing their relationship with the environment has been a continuous requirement and responsibility for people and society. How society has assumed that responsibility depends on technology, human ingenuity, and the values and norms of society, which...
How does one become inspired?
Well, for all this is a different concept. Some of us are driven by providing for others; be it knowledge, care, or simply a path. Others are motivated by financial gain, or as I like to put it, greed. Then there are those who do not seem to have a drive, rather they are comfortable staying stagnant in life. They...
Hope’s Edge
(a) How is Lappe’s worldview similar to/different from Pollan’s?) What is “social ecology”? Pollan does not get into world issues like Francis Moore Lappe. Is this understanding that human social problems and environmental problems stem from the same origin and are connected.
(b) Why will producing more food not solve...