Lateral is Back

Behaviourism Is Back !

It was not long ago that behaviourism was almost a contemptuous epithet, if not a contretemps career epitaph, and few theorists wished to be mistaken for behaviourists. However, there has been a recent shift of alliances with the emergence of a new breed of researchers that openly advocate the incorporation of behaviourism into the study of consciousness. This critical essay is therefore devote...

Wilbur is back.

Metadata is back!

1. TALK SUMMARY I chose the title Metadata is back! because of schema.org, which is a joint effort of Bing, Google and Yahoo to provide a collection of schemas for marking up Web pages with machine-readable data. This helps search engines to understand the meaning of information and allows them to provide rich search results to the user, which makes it easier for them to find relevant informati...

The Cosmological Constant Is Back

SUMMARY A diverse set of observations now compellingly suggest that Universe possesses a nonzero cosmological constant. In the context of quantum-field theory a cosmological constant corresponds to the energy density of the vacuum, and the wanted value for the cosmological constant corresponds to a very tiny vacuum energy density. We discuss future observational tests for a cosmological constan...

DDT is back: let us spray!