Beating swords into "critical technologies"

Beat their swords into ploughshares

The struggle for life has been the main driving force in natural evolution. Billions of years of competition and warfare between viruses, prokaryotes and eukaryotes (in any combination) have shaped the present world. Among these violent encounters, the attack of bacteria by viruses is probably the most frequently occurring host–parasite interaction on our planet. The offensive bacteriophages ar...

Beating type 2 diabetes into remission.

Electrodynamic Sailing : Beating into the Solar

monkey with vision occluded obtain information about its own motor activities, as would be necessary, for example, when learning new movements? In this regard it is worth considering the possibility of the operation of central feedback mechanisms. Intracentral loops located appropriately could provide a means of monitoring central efferent activity before it has emerged into the periphery. Seve...

Beating Common Sense into Interactive Applications

been to put commonsense knowledge into computers—enabling machines to reason about everyday life. Some projects, such as Cyc, have begun to amass large collections of such knowledge. However, it is widely assumed that the use of common sense in interactive applications will remain impractical for years, until these collections can be considered sufficiently complete and commonsense reasoning su...

Swords and Sustenance

The economic dependence on Russia that Ukraine and Belarus inherited from Soviet planners in 1991 was enormous. The two new states depended on Russian markets, in which Ukrainian and Belarusian producers sold goods that were uncompetitive in the rest of the world. Ukraine and Belarus also depended on Russia for crucial imports. Energy was the most important of all. Ukraine and Belarus relied he...