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- Research helps explain how Ritalin sharpens attention https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/ritalin-behavioral-effects 154 comments
- Got food cravings? What’s living in your gut may be responsible https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/food-cravings-pitt-study 147 comments
- The Dome: A Simple Violation of Determinism in Newtonian Mechanics https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/ 2 comments
- Irreversibility and Heat Generation in the Computing Process (1961) [pdf] https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/lectures/Rotman_Summer_School_2013/thermo_computing_docs/Landauer_1961.pdf 13 comments
- Einstein and the Canon of Mathematical Simplicity [pdf] http://pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/Einstein_simplicity.pdf 2 comments
- A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/ 2 comments
- A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/index.html 4 comments
- How did Einstein Think? http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Einstein_think/index.html 72 comments
- Einstein for Everyone http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/ 5 comments
- How Did Einstein Think? http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Einstein_think/ 63 comments
- A Peek into Einstein's Zurich Notebook http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/index.html 10 comments
- Einstein for Everyone http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/index.html 18 comments
- How swarms of fireflies synchronise their flashes, explained with a neuroscience model https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/how-fireflies-flash-in-sync 6 comments science
- A grim prediction made half a decade ago by epidemiologists and modelers has come true: More than 100,000 people are now dying from drug overdoses annually in the United States https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/pitt-team-predicted-opioid-epidemic-death-tolls 4 comments science
- You are NOT a Boltzmann Brain https://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/goodies/boltzmann_brain/boltzmann_brain.html 7 comments philosophy
- Philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe in 1958 wrote a brief and pithy, yet incredibly influential essay entitled "Modern Moral Philosophy", arguing that moral discourse had fallen into a complete rut. Her message is still timely, and worth a read! https://www.pitt.edu/~mthompso/readings/mmp.pdf 65 comments philosophy
- If you can only save one group of people, do you have an obligation to save the greater number? John Taurek argues "no" http://www.pitt.edu/~mthompso/readings/taurek.pdf 19 comments philosophy
- [deleted by user] http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters_2015_Jan_1/non_Euclid_construction/index.html 6 comments askscience
- A history of Einstein's reconciliation with mathematical simplicity [pdf] http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/einstein_simplicity.pdf 6 comments math
- Michael Thompson's Notes on Taurek's Argument Against "The Numbers Counting" [PDF] http://pitt.edu/~mthompso/readings/taureknotes.pdf 6 comments philosophy
- Brandom recorded all of his lectures from his 2014 seminar on Sellars http://www.pitt.edu/~brandom/sellars_2014/index.html 3 comments philosophy
- "What is it to wrong someone? A puzzle about justice"--Michael Thompson http://www.pitt.edu/~mthompso/raz.pdf 4 comments philosophy
- A Material Theory of Induction - John D. Norton http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/material.pdf 5 comments philosophy
- "Evolution of Morality" by Edouard Machery and Ron Mallon http://www.pitt.edu/~machery/papers/evol%20of%20morality.pdf 3 comments philosophy
- Free eBook on Einstein's Relativity Theory! http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/hps_0410/chapters/index.html 11 comments philosophy
- An academic paper on the word "dude" exists in American Speech and it's pretty interesting. http://www.pitt.edu/~kiesling/dude/dude.html 22 comments linguistics
- Stock Market Investment Game http://www.pitt.edu/~caginalp/Pub72.pdf 21 comments investing
- The perspectives of Nietzsche x-post /r/RealPhilosophy http://www.pitt.edu/~wbcurry/nietzsche.html 34 comments philosophy
- Einstein for Everyone http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/hps_0410/chapters/index.html 8 comments science
- This webpage claims to prove that Newtonian mechanics allows for indeterministic behavior. Can someone please tell me if it's correct? http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Dome/index.html 26 comments askscience
- A list of books in Franz Kafka's personal library http://www.pitt.edu/~kafka/k_s_bibII.html 6 comments books
- One of these things is not like the other... http://www.pitt.edu/~cejones/geoimages/1minerals/3metamorphicminerals.html 30 comments science
- Einstein for Everyone - For those who do not know enough physics to understand what he did and why it was so important. http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/hps_0410/chapters/index.html 3 comments science
- Weird physics: A simple system that violates causality using only Newtonian mechanics http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/goodies/dome/index.html 45 comments reddit.com
- Newton's Dome: A Simple Violation of Determinism in Newtonian Mechanics http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/goodies/dome/index.html 3 comments reddit.com
- These programs are causing Windows to start slowly (Vista) http://www.pitt.edu/~rmmiller/vista1.jpg 2 comments reddit.com