Science meets Parliament 2021

Computer Science Meets Medical Science

In the past 20–30 years at least two technical advances have made quantification in pathology at a large scale possible. At the time the computing power of affordable computers increased, interest to deploy tasks emerged that were previously very laborious to perform. Combined with digital camera systems, many new possibilities became available. Examples of such measurements that were previousl...

Cognitive Science Meets Psychoanalysis

the contemporary intellectual world is that between cognitive science and cultural theory. Cognitive scientists are committed to the idea that we can follow the conceptions of the mind to their zero level of the brain. As a result, speculation about our conceptions on their own terms will always mislead us into false problems. These are the problems that preoccupy cultural theorists. For the la...

When Science Meets Religion

Art meets science?

What’s the best thing about HHMI funding? There's lots of it. The annual HHMI budget was $330 million in 1994, of which about 80 % was spent on the 227 HHMI investigators. For those who need lots of money for mice or equipment, HHMI funding can be the answer to a prayer. And HHMI, unlike most other funding bodies, does not discourage long-term, risky research or projects with little obvious rel...

Zeno Meets Modern Science

“No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him”. We will not refute Zeno in this paper. Instead we review some unexpected encounters of Zeno with modern science. The paper begins with a brief biography of Zeno of Elea followed by his famous paradoxes of motion. Reflections on continuity of space and time lead us to Banach and Tarski and to their celebrated paradox, which is in fact not a pa...