Sam Vaknin's Articles in Science

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  • Why Waste?
    Waste is considered to be the by-product of both natural and artificial processes: manufacturing, chemical reactions, and events in biochemical pathways.
  • The Wages of Science
    In the United States, Congress approved, In February 2003, increases in the 2003 budgets of both the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. America is not alone in - vainly - trying to compensate for imploding capital markets and risk-averse financiers.
  • The Tale of the Humble Popcorn
    Corn pollen more than 80,000 years old was found in Mexico. Proper popcorn was known in China, Sumatra, and India for at least 5000 years.
  • The Origins of Biological and Chemical Warfare
    Chemical and biological warfare are not an invention of the 20th century.
  • The Life Cycle of Science
    Witchcraft, Religion, Alchemy and Science succeeded one another and each such transition was characterized by transitional pathologies reminiscent of psychotic disorders.
  • The Invention of Television
    The transmission of images obsessed inventors as early as 1875 when George Carey of Boston proposed his cumbersome system.
  • The History of Calendars
    Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7. Their "old new year" is a week later, on January 14. It is all Julius Caesar's fault ...
  • The Fourth Law (of Robotics)
    The movie "I, Robot" is a muddled affair. It relies on shoddy pseudo-science and a general sense of unease that artificial (non-carbon based) intelligent life forms seem to provoke in us. But it goes no deeper than a comic book treatment of the important themes that it broaches.
  • The Complexity of Simplicity
    Complexity rises spontaneously in nature through processes such as self-organization. Emergent phenomena are common as are emergent traits, not reducible to basic components, interactions, or properties.
  • SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Aliens Conundrum - Part II
    How can we tell the artificial from the natural? How can we be sure to distinguish Alien artifacts from naturally-occurring objects? How can we tell apart with certainty Alien languages from random noise or other natural signals?
  • SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Aliens Conundrum - Part I
    The various projects that comprise the 45-years old Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) raise two important issues.
  • Primary Technology, Consumer Technology, and World Peace
    Paradigm shifts in science and revolutionary leaps in technology are frequently coterminous with political and military upheavals.
  • Parapsychology and the Paranormal
    Parapsychological phenomena - once convincingly demonstrated in laboratory settings - can help to upset current scientific laws and theories.
  • Lysenko and Stalin's Genetics
    Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976) was an agronomist. During the reign of Lenin and Stalin years in the Soviet Union, he became the chief proponent of the work of the self-taught plant breeder Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin (1855-1935) and his brand of Lamarckism - a pre-Darwinian theory of evolution of the species proposed in the French scientist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829).
  • Life of Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, cartographer, engineer, scientist and inventor in the 15th century.
  • Eugenics and the Future of the Human Species
    The Nazis regarded the murder of the feeble-minded and the mentally insane - intended to purify the race and maintain hereditary hygiene - as a form of euthanasia.
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