The Daily Populous

Sunday October 8th, 2017 morning edition

image for In his 1943 lectures, Schrodinger posed the question 'What Is Life?' and remarked that the inability of chemistry and physics to account for such events is no reason at all for doubting that they could be accounted for by those sciences. 70 years later, that fundamental question still persists.

posed this question and remarked that “the obvious inability of present-day physics and chemistry to account for such events is no reason at all for doubting that they can be accounted for by those sciences”.

How do the fundamental laws of physics and chemistry converge to produce biological systems of seemingly ordered complexity?.

Vast numbers of molecules are averaged to generate macroscopic precision with well-defined states of thermodynamic properties.

The laws of physics that mold solids and gases into ornate complexity are not the same laws of nature that morph biological systems.

It is a function of laws that generate order from pre-existing order, which in the first place derives from chaos.

Was consciousness merely an emergent consequence of adaptive complexity in order to cope with ever-increasing novel and changing situations?

But, life as we know it is only based on our perception of life as it appears to us on Earth. »

America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 People Were Murdered In Arkansas

Authored by thedailybeast.com
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Bratton agreed to represent the cheated sharecroppers, who also joined a new union, the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America.

Allen and the county’s white landowners understood that their continued prosperity depended on the exploitation of black sharecroppers and laborers.

The Arkansas sharecroppers who stood up against the white planters of Phillips County were a major part of black resistance during 1919. »

On Putin's birthday, opposition activists protest, call for him to quit

Authored by reuters.com
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Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attend a rally near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia October 7, 2017.

Police officers detain a supporter of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a rally in St. Petersburg, Russia October 7, 2017.

Putin spent his birthday taking congratulatory calls from other world leaders, and chaired a security council meeting. »