Boxing: Think outside
The rules of the sport of boxing change from time to time. But in most cases, each participant in the match is a human being and still needs to be alive. (Exceptions appear from time to time; kangaroos are typical of heavyweights.)
Joseph Lee of Australia's Flinders University sought a way to extend boxing's strict tradition.He outlines his ideas in his research published in his journal ethics and philosophy It's titled “Thinking Outside the Ring of Concussive Punches: Rethinking Boxing.”
Lee conducts a thought experiment. He “imagines a battle between humans and robots.” This imagination, he writes, produces reality.
“Demand for robot-human boxing may or may not arise. Certainly, the supply of robot boxing opponents is theoretically feasible,” he writes. “With the right programming, competition with the machines of the future could be as bold as: [a matador] You're facing a bull. ”
According to him, the main advantages are obvious. “The essential elements of boxing are preserved for humans, and fewer live opponents will result in an overall reduction in boxing-related brain injuries.”
classified wall
Taxonomists work to classify things and build conceptual walls that separate each kind of thing from all other kinds. There are snakes, melons, viruses, distortion-oriented presentation techniques – classifications for almost every kind of object or concept. There's even a taxonomist's taxonomy.
Thanks to reader Dave Brooks, I learned through feedback that there is a classification of stone walls outlined in “Classification and Nomenclature of Stone Areas of New England.”
Is there a good classification of stone walls elsewhere? I would appreciate your feedback.
economics of surfing
What is the value of surfing in terms of money?
Ralph Buckley of Australia's Griffith University and Ralph Buckley of Australia's Griffith University said that because surfing is a “more frequent and intense activity” than simply visiting a national park, it “has a negative impact on mental health per capita.” “This is likely to have a significant impact on improvement and economic value.” Andres Bello University, Chile.
They are trying to calculate its economic value in a study published in the journal npj ocean sustainability.
The pair believe that the value of surfing's stress relief is “estimated at approximately $5,000.” [US] per person per year.” They further estimate that for Australia, this equates to approximately $1 billion to $3.3 billion per year.
“This seems like a novel approach, different from previous research,” Buckley and Cooper said of their work. So far, no one has disputed this.
Car jeers and cheers
Some researchers are strongly against cars. There are also anti-car opponents, although they are probably small in number.
Patrick Miner of the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his colleagues say the thrilling fear sometimes caused by cars has left billions of people worried about injury or even death. Drive them, that is. Transportation Geography Journal It is called “Car Harm: A Global Review of the Harm of Cars to People and the Environment.''
How many billions will be affected? Since 2000, “an estimated 2 billion people have been injured in car crashes, which equates to up to one in four people alive today. It does not take into account repeat injuries or population changes,” they said. And that's not to mention the other kinds of problems they list, such as social inequality and ecological damage.
Meanwhile, not just then, but rather 17 years ago, University of Nevada, Las Vegas graduate Roger Roots tried to put the brakes on a truckload of worries.
In his perhaps pre-emptive report entitled “The Dangers of Auto Travel: Reconsidered”, American Journal of Economic Sociology, Roots took a rough stance over the alleged issues. The dangers of automobile use, he wrote, were “significantly lower than those posed by early horse and steam transportation, especially in terms of deaths per mile.”
Roots later founded Lysander Spooner University in Montana. This university is little known (it is unclear if there are any students at the university), but it modestly boasts that it is “dedicated to truth and free inquiry, and to political and social education.” We became estranged. We achieve low cost and high quality. The world's first true anti-government university. ” Of all the universities in the world, it may be the one that is most committed to theory.
dead ant repellent
For entomologists and exterminators who read a recent study by Thomas Wagner and Tomer Chaches of the University of Regensburg in Germany, a visit to a cemetery could spark a lively conversation. The study in question is called “Odors associated with dead bodies of invasive ants induce avoidance.”
Mark Abrahams hosted the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and co-founded the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previously, he was working on unusual uses of computers.his website is impossible.com.
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