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“I Love You, You Pay My Rent”: Belarusian-Russian Integration

The history of Russian-Belarusian integration is a strange history indeed. Throughout the whole decade ever since 1995, the two countries have engaged in a highly publicized series of diplomatic exchanges about their commitment to the Union state between each other, and ever-closer union it were to be in political, economic and military spheres. Yet despite all public declarations and the expan...

"I love you from the bottom of my heart".

My love-hate of Sci-Hub.

ike many scientist-editors of journals published by nonprofit scientific societies, I have a love-hate relationship with Sci-Hub, the website operated out of Russia that provides access to 50 million pirated scientific articles to researchers worldwide (see the News story on p. 508). I recognize the underlying motivation of bringing global research content to the developing world. However, I al...

Lightweight Vision -or- How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Camera

Sensing is often the limiting factor in mobile robot performance, particularly for robots that operate in dynamic environments. Both the robot’s opportunities for behavior and its ability to respond to contingencies are limited by the breadth and reliability of its percepts. While it can be difficult to get people to admit to it in writing, there is a common attitude in both the AI and robotics...

I love you with all my brain: laying aside the intellectually dull sword of biological determinism

BACKGROUND By organizing and activating our passions with both hormones and experiences, the heart and mind of sexual behavior, sexual motivation, and sexual preference is the brain, the organ of learning. Despite decades of progress, this incontrovertible truth is somehow lost in the far-too-often biologically deterministic interpretation of genetic, hormonal, and anatomical scientific researc...