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, 2017 We present four logic puzzles and after that their solutions. Joseph Yeo designed 'Cheryl's Birthday'. Mike Hartley came up with a novel solution for 'One Hundred Prisoners and a Light Bulb'. Jonathan Welton designed 'A Blind Guess' and 'Abby's Birthday'.
Hartley, Michael Ian +5 more
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Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies
Topics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 204-219, January 2026.Abstract This paper explores the role of measurement as a cognitive technology across human history, emphasizing the coexistence of formal and informal measurement systems. While standardized systems dominate contemporary culture and are well documented across large‐scale societies of the past, this manuscript highlights the less explored domain of ...
Roope O. Kaaronen +2 more
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Tracking the Rephaim Through Place and Time
ReligionsIn separate traditions in the HB, the Rephaim are presented either as a living group of gigantic warriors or as shadowy figures of the underworld of Sheol.
Rodney K. Duke
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Exploring the Epistemology of Illicit Drugs [PDF]
, 2015 In this essay I explore the epistemology of drugs in America. That is, how Americans come to know and define drugs and their users; and, in turn, how those definitions manifest in social institutions.
Linseman, Holly
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AI Magazine, Volume 46, Issue 4, Winter 2025.Abstract Most recent writing about the directions for AI has focused on the potential risks of widespread use of AI and what we DO NOT want from AI. This has led to many, largely ignored, calls for a pause in research and deployment. This essay takes the view that there are too many factors in play to slow the deployment much and for long.
Robert B. Fisher
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Applied SciencesUrine is historically the oldest biological material used for diagnostic purposes. Urine testing dates to the ancient Babylonians and Sumerians. Uroscopy consisted of visual and organoleptic assessment (color, clarity, odor, taste testing) of urine.
Katarzyna Klimasz +2 more
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The sea in Sumerian literature [PDF]
, 2020 Surveying the references to the sea in Sumerian literature, this paper discusses the general idea that the sea is underrepresented in Mesopotamian cultures of the third millennium BCE.
Lorenzo Verderame
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Ecosystem services provided by spiders
Biological Reviews, Volume 100, Issue 6, Page 2217-2236, December 2025.ABSTRACT Spiders, ubiquitous and abundant predators in terrestrial ecosystems, often are the subjects of an unjust negative perception. However, these remarkable creatures stand as unsung heroes within our ecosystems, contributing a multitude of ecosystem services critical to human well‐being.
Pedro Cardoso +13 more
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Türk Kütüphaneciliği, 2018 Sumerologist, writer M.İ. Çığ’s work called Ludingirra the Sumerian: Science Fiction for the Past” has been adapted from the information in the tablets which belongs to thousands of years ago. The main character of the book Ludingirra, a writer, teacher,
Demet Işık
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Kirves Nergali jaoks. Täheldusi sumerite ja akkadlaste allilmakujutlustest [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2012 The current short Sumerian literary text, which was written in Old Babylonian time and which consists of only 16 lines, is a dedicatory inscription. This text was written on a bronze axe that was dedicated to Nergal, the main Mesopotamian god of the ...
Vladimir Sazonov
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