[1] Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Pater
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Adult | Education | Humanities
Excerpts from “The Propaganda Multiplier” (SPR)
“News agencies are rarely in the public eye. Yet they are one of the most influential and at the same time one of the least known media types. They are key institutions of substantial importance to any media system… ” (Wolfgang Vyslozil)
Adult | Books | Education | Humanities
The Maid of Orleans (Chesterton)
“When a man of Voltaire’s school has to explode a saint or a great religious hero, he says that such a person is a common human fool, or a common human fraud. But when a man like Anatole France has to explode a saint, he explains a saint as somebody belonging to his particular fussy little literary set.” (Chesterton)
NASA Discovers Water on the Moon
“NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places.”
Algorithms and equality. (Bardon, Bernheim, Vincent)
“Sexist algorithms? The question may seem odd. Coded by humans, the algorithms used by artificial intelligence are not free of stereotypes. “
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¿Un posthumanismo más humano? (M. Mela)
“Las transformaciones científicas y tecnológicas en las que estamos inmersos afectan a nuestra propia condición humana. ¿Cuál es el sentido de tendencias como el posthumanismo? ¿Cómo pensar este «después»?” (Mela)