Children's Associational Rights? Why Less Is More

Children’s Associational Rights? Why Less Is More

Less is more… (more or less…).

In April 1981 Xerox introduced the Star 8010 workstation, the first commercial system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the first to use the “desktop” metaphor to organize a user’s interactions with the computer. Despite the perception of huge progress, from the perspective of design and usage models, there has been precious little progress in the intervening years. In the tradition of ...

The knowledge paradox: why knowing more is knowing less

To provide an explanation of the evolution of scientific knowledge, I start from the assumption that knowledge is based on concepts, and propose that each concept about reality is affected by vagueness. This entails a paradox, which I term Knowledge Paradox (KP): i.e. we need concepts to acquire knowledge about the real world but each concept is a step away from reality. The KP provides a unify...

Stress training and simulator complexity: why sometimes more is less

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Viral Cell-to-Cell Transmission—Why Less Is More

During cell-to-cell transmission, only a minute fraction of viral genomes contribute to the progeny. A new study reveals the underlying stochastic processes and explains why these are advantageous for the virus.