Science and Its Philosophy From a Marxist Perspective
Lo que aquí señala Astarita es equivalente a lo que en su momento Marx critió de Proudhon en Miseria de la Filosofía.
El objetivo de esta nota es precisar la diferencia entre el valor de una mercancía y el valor agregado por el trabajo empleado en la producción. Me motiva hacerlo una nota publicada en un periódico de izquierda, en la que se afirma que la empresa Mondelez, de la alimentación, puede pagar los salarios de sus […]
Capital constante, salarios y Economía vulgar
By Sean Graham In its final report, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission included several Calls to Action regarding education. One of these was to develop and implement learning resources for all students in Canada so that more Indigenous voices, perspectives, and approaches were included in provincial and territorial curricula. As we’ve seen, however, some efforts […]
History Slam 214: Indigenous Voices, Resources, & Learning in Canadian Classrooms
Source:Frontiers A new study has linked life satisfaction to the chemistry in our brains. People that release more of the neurochemical oxytocin are kinder to others and tend to be more satisfied with their lives. In addition, oxytocin release increases with age, showing why, on average, people are more caring as they get older. These […]
We Are More Satisfied With Life as We Age, Thanks to Oxytocin
Este, y otros capítulos antes subidos, pertenecen a un libro en proceso de construcción titulado “EL SISTEMA DIALÉCTICO-MATERIALISTA COMO PROGRAMA DE DEMARCACIÓN DE LAS CIENCIAS. CASO DE APLICACIÓN: LA DEFINICIÓN SUBJETIVA DEL VALOR DE LAS MERCANCÍAS COMO PRINCIPIO PSEUDOCIENTÍFICO“.
La imagen del encabezado fue tomada de http://davidharvey.org/2018/03/marxs-refusal-of-the-labour-theory-of-value-by-david-harvey/.
By Andrew Nurse On April 26, 2022, Harvard University announced “that it will spend $100 million” as part of a plan to address what it’s president called “profoundly immoral” practices in the university’s past.[1] At issue is Harvard’s relationship to slavery, racism and colonialism. Harvard is not the first university to grapple with a deeply […]
Harvard and Slavery: The Moral Responsibility of History
In orthodox first-order logic, variables and expressions are only allowed to take one value at a time; a variable , for instance, is not allowed to equal and simultaneously. We will call such variables completely specified. If one really wants to deal with multiple values of objects simultaneously, one is encouraged to use the language […]
Partially specified mathematical objects, ambient parameters, and asymptotic notation
Source:PLOS Over time, using antidepressants is not associated with significantly better health-related quality of life, compared to people with depression who do not take the drugs. These are the findings of a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Omar Almohammed of King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, and colleagues. It […]
Antidepressants Are Not Associated With Improved Quality of Life in the Long Run
The startsWith function comes with base R, and determines whether entries of an input start with a given prefix. (The endsWith function does the same thing but for suffixes.) The following code checks if each of “ant”, “banana” and “balloon” starts with “a”: The second argument (the prefix to check) can also be a vector. […]
A short note on the startsWith function
Economic growth The US economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2022, compared to the previous quarter, due in large part to a decline in inventories and exports. Consumer and business spending continued to grow however, suggesting that activity still has some momentum. US real GDP quarterly change % Growth in the […]
It’s not looking good for 2022