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Walter Benjamin criticized cinema in the 1930s for causing traditional works of art to lose their aura, and it’s a question that remains relevant in the face of modern digital advances.   Today, movies are recognized as the defining artistic genre of our time, with audiences of up to 10 million people per film. However, it’s interesting to note that in the early days of cinema...

  Based on the hypothesis that altruistic behavior is not evolutionarily stable, the kin selection hypothesis explains the reasons for altruistic behavior from a genetic perspective and discusses the complexities and limitations of altruistic behavior using the example of bee society.   Altruistic sacrifice in movies and TV shows In movies and TV shows, we often see people sacrificing...

Frames serve to establish the boundaries of the screen in visual media, and double-framing techniques provide visual emphasis and dimensionality by directing the eye, suggesting a theme, or dictating a framed narrative structure, and modern visual media have modified them to create a variety of effects.   In visual media, such as film and photography, a frame is the boundary that separates...

Since Watson and Crick’s discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, biotechnology has advanced by leaps and bounds. DNA fingerprinting technology has built on achievements such as restriction enzymes and genetic code decoding, and has become an important tool in criminal investigations and personal identification. RFLPs and STRs analyses have increased the accuracy and...

The concept of community, which originated in the traditional village communities of agricultural societies, has evolved through urbanization and industrialization into various forms of new community movements, which tend to seek social homogeneity and common purpose.   Agricultural societies were predicated on a socio-economic structure that was well-suited to naturally embody and reproduce...

While identitarianism and functionalism attempt to explain consciousness as a material state or function of the brain, Rowlands’ extended cognition theory argues that consciousness and cognitive processes are shaped by interactions with the external environment.   In psychological philosophy, identitarianism views consciousness as identical to the material state of the brain. By...

  Big data is revolutionizing our everyday lives. For example, it enables personalized marketing and real-time inventory management. But it also raises serious privacy concerns, which require legislation and corporate accountability to address.   Vacation episodes and big data It’s been two weeks since my vacation started. Today, I woke up slowly and was surfing the web when my...

This article offers three ways to prevent free-riding in high school group projects and ensure that everyone is contributing equally, and explains the importance of doing the right thing.   In high school, it’s common for the best student in a group to do all of the work, while the rest of the group reads briefly before presenting. If you think about it from the perspective of a good...

  This article introduces the various applications of chemical and biological engineering, explaining their impact on our daily lives and their potential for future development. It emphasizes the importance of chemical and biological engineering through a variety of examples, including televisions, batteries, and environmental pollution.   Most of the things we use in our lives are made...

Bayesianism, unlike traditional epistemology, views beliefs as degrees rather than binary, and explains that changes in beliefs should be rationally adjusted according to the conditioning principle.   Many traditional epistemologists believe that for any given proposition, we can only have one of three belief attitudes. For example, we can believe the proposition “It will snow...