
Solaris (Andrei Tarovski): The duck test
Stability of character is important for personal identity. Without stability, Kelvin’s two colleagues suggest that Hari can be destroyed as an object. The correctness of Kelvin’s intuition is also demonstrated by the famous inductive reasoning test of the duck. Unlike … Read More

Ajax programming
The IT architecture of Ajax (which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is used to build Web applications and interactive dynamic websites, client–side model, using different technologies added to web browsers between 1995 and 2005. Ajax combines JavaScript, CSS, JSON, … Read More

Ontology of Gravitational Singularities
General relativity allows singularities, and we need to understand the ontology of singularities if we want to understand the nature of space and time in the present universe. Although some physicists believe that singularities indicate a failure of general relativity, … Read More

Origins of Christmas
No Christian text does not specify what day of the year was born Jesus Christ. Christmas is not part of the celebrations followed by the early Christians and is not included in the lists published by Irenaeus and Tertullian. Given … Read More

Online Gambling in Europe
The current regulatory situation in the Member States is such that operators may be required, when offering the same type of online gambling service (e.g. sports betting) in different Member States, to apply for a licence in each of these … Read More

Omaha Hold’em Poker
Omaha Hold’em Poker (also called Omaha Hold’em or Omaha Holdem) is a variation of poker community cards, comprising, like Texas hold’em, five community cards, but four hole cards to each player instead of two. In addition, each player must make … Read More

Philosophy of Death
In paleontology, the discovery of funeral rites is an important factor in determining the degree of social awakening of a hominid. This awareness of death is an engine of social cohesion (uniting to resist disasters and enemies) and action (to … Read More

The illusion of a gambling tip to win: Martingale
A martingale is a technique giving the illusion of increasing the chances of winning in gambling while respecting the rules. The principle depends completely on the type of game that is the target and, in many cases, the rules are … Read More

Sculpting in Time, with Andrei Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky opposed to the movie editing and considered that the basis of the art of cinematography (movie art) is the internal rhythm of images. He considers cinema as a representation of distinctive currents or time waves, transmitted in the film … Read More