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Interdisciplinary researcher. Research interests: philosophy of science, ontology, systems science, cognition, neurocognition.

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If 0 means nothing and nothing is the absence of something but absence is in existence which means that nothing is contradicting itself, ...
Maria Odete Madeira's answer: In ontological terms, we can state that nothing is the absence of pattern, understanding, by pattern, beings, entities…, order. Are numbers things?! Numbers are abstract...
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February 10, 2026 at 11:45 PM
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Quantum computers will finally be useful: what’s behind the revolution www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Quantum computers will finally be useful: what’s behind the revolution
A string of surprising advances suggests usable quantum computers could be here in a decade.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Scientists Find a Massive Hidden Lava Tunnel Beneath the Surface of Venus
It's much bigger than what we see on Earth.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Epstein's Gates to Pandemonium
Epstein brings to mind a darkness that involved horrible violence. Gates and Epstein, pandemic and pandemonium, may be closer than we thought.
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February 9, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Still nothing beats this view 🌍    Our Cupola turns 16 today!🎉 The Cupola is the panoramic control tower of the International Space Station (ISS): a dome-shaped module with windows for observing… | Eu...
Still nothing beats this view 🌍    Our Cupola turns 16 today!🎉 The Cupola is the panoramic control tower of the International Space Station (ISS): a dome-shaped module with windows for observing and g...
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February 8, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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Passerby Thoughts on the Transcendental …Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Husserl...
The notion of transcendental assumed, in Aristotle, a metaphysical sense of characterization of attributes, such as, the unity, the true and the good. Thomas Aquinas assumed Aristotle's transcende...
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February 8, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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Storm Marta batters Portugal and Spain just days after deadly floods
Portugal and Spain both issued warnings over the potential fresh floods, after inundations blocked hundreds of roads, disrupted trains and forced thousands to evacuate from the rising waters.
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February 7, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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What is your honest opinion on Trump?
Maria Odete Madeira's answer: Wow…! What a question! Honest, honestly?! I think that Mr Trump is an expression of phenotypic variability that introduces, in the organization of an adult brain, a certa...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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What would Kant say to Trump if he met him?
Maria Odete Madeira's answer: Most likely, Kant would not waste time with Trump, but, instead, would reflect on the rationality of the political game underlying Trump’s election. Why did an Imperium ...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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What is the value of studying Kant, when his whole philosophy is obviously false?
Maria Odete Madeira's answer: Kant integrated a movement of Humanist “ideas” that sprouted all over Europe in the Eighteenth Century, integrating a sense of criticism against the Theological-Metaphysi...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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What is beauty according to Kant?
Maria Odete Madeira's answer: For Kant, the production of judgments consists in thinking the diverse of the empirical experience as if it was contained in a universal. If the universal is previously ...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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Astrophotographer captures the 'Flaming Star Nebula' ablaze in deep-space (photo)
Ionized clouds give the impression of flames surrounding the star AE Aurigae.
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February 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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Trump Tightens Blockade Against Cuba
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security, expanding tariffs on countries that sell oil to Cuba.
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February 6, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism
Moderation used to help Democrats win, but its advantages now have been greatly exaggerated.
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February 5, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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The Mask Comes Off
Trump, Venezuela, and what’s really happening to the “rules-based international order.“
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February 5, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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The Path to the Trump Doctrine
From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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Quantum computers will finally be useful: what’s behind the revolution www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Quantum computers will finally be useful: what’s behind the revolution
A string of surprising advances suggests usable quantum computers could be here in a decade.
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February 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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The strange physics of tides
In this episode of the ConnectSci Podcast, David Boldeman is joined by science journalist Ellen Phiddian to explore the strange and often misunderstood physics of tides. You can also read this story. ...
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February 4, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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40-year effort to green Chinese desert shows promise for carbon capture
An experiment in western China that has been running for nearly 40 years has shown that reversing desertification can pull excess carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Desertification is the expan...
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February 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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What are your opinions regarding Nietzsche?
Maria Odete Madeira's answer: Nietzsche, the “Amor Fati”, the dancing star, the immediateness and spontaneity of Dionysius that defies Apollo, the position and contraposition in a same reflexive entan...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Astronomers Find Solar Flares Are Triggered by Magnetic “Avalanches” That Turn Into Raining Plasma www.zmescience.com/space/magnet...
Astronomers Find Solar Flares Are Triggered by Magnetic "Avalanches" That Turn Into Raining Plasma
Weak magnetic hiccups can cascade into a flare and a lingering rain of plasma.
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February 2, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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Polar Ice Navigation from drone
<p>Icebreaker and cargo ships plowing through ice on the northern sea route</p>
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January 30, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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A tripolar entente and the collapse of legal constraint feps-europe.eu/a-tripolar-e...
A tripolar entente and the collapse of legal constraint - Foundation for European Progressive Studies
The UN Charter promised that sovereignty would no longer be decided by conquest, coercion, or […]
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January 30, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Thinking About Fields
Measure fields?! No, not at all! The fields&#39; dynamics are always reflexively nonlocal. One can measure, in some way, or interpret, analyze, think about the dynamics, the intensities, the rhythms, ...
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January 30, 2026 at 1:36 PM