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Magic and Enlightenment auf der Wiesen: Der Stein der Weisen and Die Zauberflöte
This paper probes how the rational and the irrational interact in Enlightenment operatic plots, and explores the effect of this interaction on the Viennese public.
Mercer Greenwald
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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim +4 more
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ABSTRACT Generative AI is radically transforming how creative authorship is understood, attributed, and governed across the world’s cultural and creative industries. As AI systems increasingly produce outputs that organisations and audiences recognise as creative, foundational assumptions about who authors creative work, who receives credit for it, and
Ololade A. Shonubi
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Magical beliefs and discriminating science from pseudoscience in undergraduate professional students
Paranormal beliefs and magical thinking exist in the public, and amongst university students. Researchers have found that media can influence such beliefs. A 2012 study suggested pseudoscientific rationales can influence acceptance of reported paranormal
Bernard M. Garrett, Roger L. Cutting
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Abstract An exquisitely preserved, isolated partial petrosal with associated fragmentary stapes is described from the Vastan Lignite Mine (Gujarat, India), dated to the early Eocene (~54.5 Ma). Several anatomical traits (e.g., large petrosal plate; posterolateral entry of the internal carotid artery to the tympanic cavity; bony tubes surrounding the ...
Mary T. Silcox +8 more
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IN ALGORITHMS WE TRUST: MAGICAL THINKING, SUPERINTELLIGENT AI AND QUANTUM COMPUTING
This article analyzes current attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing and argues that they represent a modern‐day form of magical thinking.
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Abstract Mixed reality (MR) using head‐mounted displays provides three‐dimensional visualizations that have been suggested to enhance learning when used alongside conventional anatomy teaching in medical education. This study explored student perceptions of the integration of MR and traditional cadaveric learning, and their optimal delivery to support ...
Harpreet Kasbia +12 more
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„SPÓR O KOSĘ” W KONOPIELCE EDWARDA REDLIŃSKIEGO A ZMIENNE TREŚCI PERCEPCYJNE SCHEMATÓW POJĘCIOWYCH
In this article, I make an intellectual experiment which is focused on how people and their worldview are determined by culture. The text is centered around a well-known story called ‘conflict about a scythe’ contained in a Polish novel by Edward ...
Michał Rydlewski
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A conspiracy theory refers to an alternative explanation of an event involving a conspirator plot organised by powerful people or organisations. Belief in conspiracy theories is related to negative societal outcomes such as poor medical decisions and a ...
Evita March, Jordan Springer
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