God did not create the universe, says Hawking. Does Your Language Shape How You Think? When these peculiarities of Guugu Yimithirr were uncovered, they inspired a large-scale research project into the language of space. And as it happens, Guugu Yimithirr is not a freak occurrence; languages that rely primarily on geographical coordinates are scattered around the world, from Polynesia to Mexico, from Namibia to Bali. For us, it might seem the height of absurdity for a dance teacher to say, “Now raise your north hand and move your south leg eastward.” But the joke would be lost on some: the Canadian-American musicologist Colin McPhee, who spent several years on Bali in the 1930s, recalls a young boy who showed great talent for dancing. As there was no instructor in the child’s village, McPhee arranged for him to stay with a teacher in a different village. But when he came to check on the boy’s progress after a few days, he found the boy dejected and the teacher exasperated.
So different languages certainly make us speak about space in very different ways. Our own extinction is forecast, but he's going by dead reckoning. Iatrogenesis. Ancient Greek painting in a vase, showing a physician (iatros) bleeding a patient Iatrogenesis (from the Greek for "brought forth by the healer") refers to any effect on a person, resulting from any activity of one or more persons acting as healthcare professionals or promoting products or services as beneficial to health, that does not support a goal of the person affected. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Some iatrogenic effects are clearly defined and easily recognized, such as a complication following a surgical procedure (e.g., lymphedema as a result of breast cancer surgery). Less obvious ones, such as complex drug interactions, may require significant investigation to identify. While some [7] have advocated using 'iatrogenesis' to refer to all 'events caused by the health care delivery team', whether 'positive or negative', consensus limits use of 'iatrogenesis' to adverse, or, most broadly, to unintended outcomes.
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Do aliens live on a Saturn moon? By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 15:56 GMT, 7 June 2010 Scientists have found evidence that there is life on Saturn's biggest moon, Titan. They have discovered clues that primitive aliens are breathing in Titan's atmosphere and feeding on fuel at the surface. The startling discoveries, made using an orbiting spacecraft, are revealed in two separate reports. Saturn's moon, Titan, pictured using ultraviolet and infrared cameras on board the space probe Cassini. Scientists now believe that the moon could harbour life Data from Nasa's Cassini probe has analysed the complex chemistry on the surface of Titan - the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere.
Its surface is covered with mountains, lakes and rivers which has led astronomers to call it the most Earthlike world in the solar system. Organic chemicals had already been detected on the 3,200-mile wide planet. Look familiar? Experts warn that there could be other explanations for the results. The £20,000 bionic bone that will let Sophia's leg grow | Mail O. By Nick Harding Updated: 15:45 GMT, 7 June 2010 Sophia Steinsberg looks like a normal teenager, but beneath the skin she is very different from her classmates. The 14-year-old is one of the few children in the world with a bionic bone. After cancer destroyed her right leg, surgeons salvaged the limb using a pioneering implant that is now giving hope to young cancer patients who previously faced amputation or years of painful surgery.
New prosthetic: The bionic bone will 'grow' inside 14-year-old Sofia Steinsberg In April last year, Sophia was fitted with a £20,000 titanium prosthesis which will 'grow' as she ages to match the development of her healthy left leg. The implant has motors that can be operated from outside the body using electromagnets, gradually lengthening the implant and subsequently the leg. Sophia was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that affects 120 children a year, in 2008. He says: 'Before, we used an implant that had to be lengthened surgically. Book review: 'The Grand Design' by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow Bantam: 200 pp., $28 Robert Oppenheimer was fond of proposing that physics and poetry were becoming indistinguishable. In "The Grand Design," Cambridge theorist Stephen Hawking and Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow seem to suggest that physics and metaphysics are also growing closer.
They point out that the unified field theory that physicists, including Einstein, spent the better part of the 20th century trying to construct, probably can't exist. Our scientific thinking has always tended to reflect its era. Today, in a pluralistic age, it seems we need a number of overlapping theories with factors in common to describe what we are beginning to call the multiverse.
This does not mean all ideas are created equal or that every strand of the multiverse is radically different from its nearest neighbor. If nature is governed by laws, argue the authors, then three questions arise: 1) What is the nature of those laws? World's biggest radiotelescope launched in Netherlands. Moon Has 100 Times More Water, New Study Suggests.
The moon's interior may harbor 100 times more water than previous estimates, according to a new study that took a fresh look at samples of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts nearly 40 years ago. The researchers determined that the lunar water likely originated early in the moon's formation history, suggesting that it is, in fact, native to the moon. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, and other colleagues, said it's likely that the water was preserved from the hot magma that was present when the moon began to form ?
Some 4.5 billion years ago. They also think that the water, which is locked up in lunar rocks and material, is likely more widespread in the moon's interior than previous studies estimated. These findings now suggest that the lower limit for total water on the moon could be 100 times greater. Tracking moon water "We combined the measurements with models that characterize how the material crystallized as the moon cooled," McCubbin said.