A Tiny Laser Device Could Reveal Alien Life

A Tiny Skylight to Abd al-Razzaq Kashani’s Life and Mystical Worldview through his Treatises and Poetry

Despite his obscurity, Abd al-Razzaq Kashani (b736 AH) is a philosopher and mystic who shines bright in the firmament of Islamic philosophy and Sufism. Being fully acquainted with the foundations of theoretical mysticism and Ibn al-Arabi’s school on the one hand, and delving deep into the ancient mystical heritage and mystical teachings of Abu Talib Maki, Khajeh Abdullah Ansari, Abu Abdul Rahma...

A Tiny Specification Metalanguage

A logic programming language with potential software engineering benefit is described. The language is intended as a specification language where the user specifies software functionality while ignoring efficiency. The goals of the language are: (1) a pure specification language – “what, not how”, (2) small size, and (3) a metalanguage – able to imitate and thus subsume other languages. The lan...

Could Your Pet Save Your Life?

How Slowing Senescence Could Change Life Expectancy

Mortality decline has historically been a result of reductions in the level of mortality at all ages. The slope of mortality increase with age has been remarkably stable. A number of leading researchers on aging, however, suggest that the next revolution of longevity increase will be the result of slowing down the rate of aging. In this paper, we show mathematically how varying the pace of sene...

Development of a Tiny Orientation Estimation Device to Operate under Motion and Magnetic Disturbance

A tiny absolute orientation estimating device equipped with a network function has been developed using accelerometers and magnetometers to estimate gravity and the geomagnetic field, respectively. Because accelerometers measure motion other than gravity, a method has been proposed to eliminate the effect of motion. An estimation method is proposed that excludes the effect of magnetic disturban...