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    An Unfriendly Object A Review of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Skyscraper Vase Our lives are filled with objects. They surround us. Many objects were created to be helpful whereas some exist to fulfill more sinister ambitions. Whatever the case may be, it seems as though objects, that is to say, “material [things] that can be seen and touched” as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, have endured with humankind for as long as there have been people to make them. This curious persisting relationship…

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    Roods Approach

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    Roods approach to sensorimotor treatment. In roods approach it is assumed that normal tone is defined as dynamic, fluid and continues movement, any jerky movements mean that there is something wrong. In this approach it believed that there is a hierarchy of the otogenic rule, or the patterns of stability. This hierarchy starts as a infant and is as follows: spine, or laying on the stomach, side laying, prone, or laying on the back, 4 point, also known as crawling, standing with assistants and…

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    Technological Singularity

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    the singularity is a good thing. The singularity will bring up a new age of superhuman intelligence. “According to Ray Kurzweil the advancements in the GNR; genomics, nanotechnology, and robotics will pave the way” (Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology). Imagine being able cure genetic diseases like hemophilia, color blindness, and cancer. Or being able to cure disease that were once thought to be incurable. The singularity will bring in new technologies like…

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    The Singularity

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    achieved the power to change our behavior, society, ways of life, and aspects of our physical form, thus breaking the connection with natural selection. Ray Kurzweil, a well-known futurist and author of “How to Create a Mind” and “The Singularity Is Near”, explains the significance of technological advancements and what their relationship with us will be in the future. The singularity that Kurzweil speaks of is when there’s a change…

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    Diving Into The Wreck

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    and myths when seeking knowledge by explicitly revealing the existence of the two separate paths, through the objects of the book and the camera. The text then endorses the path to truth, as a viable alternative to the common path of falsehood, when it use a physical object to mimic the process of collecting concrete facts instead of speculations and stories, represented by an abstract object. In doing so, the reader can come to realize the reality that the pursuit of truth is the most…

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    Remember the romantic, controversial relationship between Theodore and his AI operation system Samantha in Spike Jonze’s directed movie “Her”? Immersed in a climate of love and moving, we applaud as Theodore and Samantha crush into each other, shed tears when Samantha says to Theodore, “I’m not like you, and at the end, moan when Samantha leaves. Not unlike normal relationships at all, “Her” depicts a situation in which artificial intelligence is no longer artificial when they tend to love,…

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    In the article, Paul Alan makes a claim that contradicts the claims made by Kurzweil and Vernor Vinge regarding “singularity” stating, “While we suppose this kind of singularity might one day occur, we don’t think it is near. In fact, we think it will be a very long time coming.” Alan lays out the article by providing the claims Kurzweil mentions in his article, and provides statements and evidence that contradicts them. He begins his article by providing the main thesis statement and claims…

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    outer space aliens really exist. Have you ever wondered if Earth is unique and if it’s the only planet with life in the universe? Scientists have discovered other planets, but none of them are Earth-like, those planets are very big and gaseous. In addition, they orbit near to their stars, so the temperatures are very high in those planets. Mathew Stanley estimated that ‘there are 10 Earth-like planets for every grain of sand on the Earth. Some people say that water is the beginning of life,…

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    The Wardaman People

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    being who lives in the Coalsack nebula by the Southern Cross. He will cast a fiery star to the Earth if laws and traditions are not followed. The falling star will cause the earth to shake and the trees to topple. The Luritja people of Central Australia also tell stories about a fire devil coming down from the Sun, an object that fell to Earth as punishment for breaking sacred law, crashing into Earth and killing everything in the vicinity. And we can still see the scars of this event today. The…

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    earth is thought to share its orbit with thousands of near-earth asteroids (NEAs). However, other scientists such as astrophysicist Steven Soter say consideration must be given to the objects relative to the planet whose orbit it shares. Soter has put forward an idea to measure a planet’s orbital neighbourhood, called the planetary discriminant, and concludes that Earth, unlike Pluto, is 1.7 million times the mass of all other objects in its orbit and therefore, has…

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