Pankaj Sharma is one of the world's premier speakers on Leadership and Personal Mastery. As a presenter, Sharma has the rare ability to electrify an audience yet deliver uncommonly original and useful insights that lead to individuals doing their best work, teams providing superb results and organizations becoming unbeatable.
Pankaj Sharma is also a Research Scientist.
Friday, March 18, 2022
Brains Are Overrated
Researchers recently showed how one brainless animal's behavior can be described entirely in the language of physics and dynamical systems.
Biomechanical interactions, rather than neurons, control the movements of one of the simplest animals. The discovery offers a glimpse into how animal behavior could have worked before neurons evolved.
Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes
By CHARLIE WOOD
Dwarf galaxies weren't supposed to have big black holes. Their surprise discovery has revealed clues about how the universe's biggest black holes could have formed.
Machine Learning Reimagines the Building Blocks of Computing
By NICK THIEME
The "lossy compression" inherent to many algorithms can result in false positives. Algorithms strengthened with machine learning can avoid these mistakes.
The noted mathematician and author Steven Strogatz explains how the conversations with experts in his new Quanta Magazine podcast address his lifelong fascination with timeless mysteries.
Atoms in our chaotic world ricochet like billiard balls, making it difficult for physicists to gauge their properties. Researchers recently found a way to stabilize the movement of certain atoms.
The Nine Lives of Schrödinger's Cat Quantum theory's predictions are clear, but its physical interpretation is not. IAI News invited nine physicists and philosophers to explain their interpretation of the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. One interpretation of quantum mechanics called "QBism" focuses on the beliefs of the observer rather than the physical reality of the object being observed. Amanda Gefter interviewed the founder of QBism, Christopher Fuchs, for Quanta in 2015.
Good News for the Scatterbrained Studying the entropy produced during various brain activities could lead to insights about how the mind works. Morten Kringelbach and Gustavo Deco write for Aeon about their thermodynamic theory of the mind. The neuroscientist Anil Seth also sees a connection between thermodynamics and the brain: He believes the brain actively fights against the 2nd law of thermodynamics by using predictive models to keep tight control over its processes.
