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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2015 | Nr 4 (48) 2015

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The conflict over the Constitutional Tribunal, law, and civil society through the eyes of Prof. Ewa Łętowska, lawyer and an ordinary member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU), a member of the Scientific Council of the PAS Institute of Law Studies, the first person to hold office as commissioner for human rights in Poland, a Highest Administrative Court judge in 1999-2002, and a Constitutional Tribunal judge in 2002-2011.
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Ewa Łętowska

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We talk about mobility and index theory with Dr. Piotr Nowak, who received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for a project entitled "Rigidity of groups and higher index theory:'
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Piotr Nowak

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One of the fundamental issues raised by scientists in fields as varied as biology, behavioral economics, psychology, and sociology concerns the causes of pro-social behavior, and cooperation in situations in which individuals could benefit by acting selfishly. Why do we honor others' trust if we would be better off exploiting them? In other words, what is the basis of social order?
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Kinga Wysieńska-Di Carlo
Zbigniew Karpiński

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We talk to Igor Zubrycki, doctoral student at the Faculty of Robotics at the Institute of Automation at the Łódź University of Technology and winner of this year's INTER competition of the Foundation for Polish Science, about robots supporting children on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD), artificial intelligence and dangers posed by machines.
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Igor Zubrycki

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What kind of electoral system is the best? This question, easy to formulate in theor has considerable practical significance. However, the answer is as widely kn as it is disappointing: it has been sho n that, given certain reasonable condition there is no such thing as a perfect votin system. This is the upshot of several different mathematical discoveries made in the latter half of the 20th century.
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Kazimierz Rzążewski
Wojciech Słomczyński
Karol Życzkowski

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Water and fire are thought of as extreme opposites. So what does water have in common with the great fireballs known as stars? Data from the Herschel Space Observatory indicate that young stars are where water molecules are formed.
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Agata Karska

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The epistolary novel genre evolved from the art of letter writing, as well as from the 18th-century fashion of witty salon conversations centered around games, intrigue, understatement, quips and emotional manipulation. Does the Polish literature and history of the period reflect these conventions?
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Agata Roćko

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Active landslides are a significant problem in today's world, especially in highly urbanized mountain regions. We are now able to monitor changes to the existing landform using increasingly sensitive technologies. Our joint team of scientists from Poland and China is working on implementing state-of-the-art technologies for monitoring landform deformation, which will be used to assess future threats.
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Zbigniew Perski

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Back in the 1960s, as a 21-year-old, he managed the first gigantic computer in Poland. Now the young people he gives win prizes in prestigious programming contests. We talk with Prof. Jan Madey about the history and future of computer science.
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Jan Madey

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Despite a significant drop in mortality rates, cardiovascular diseases remain the number-one cause of death in Poland. Funding for novel procedures, such as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), is nevertheless insufficient, compared to the scale of the problem in Poland and average implantation rates in Europe. That is one of the factors motivating the European Society of Cardiology's and European Association for Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions "Valve for Life" Initiative.
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Andrzej Witkowski
Witold Rużyłło

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Learning from textbooks? Certainly not for players of "geocaching" - i.e. several million people across the world who absorb geology-related knowledge by looking for places and objects according to clues left by others.
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Paweł Woźniak
Monika Krzeczyńska

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Mammoths, wooly rhinos, and forest elephants died out long ago, but the massive bones they left behind enable us to imagine how impressive these prehistoric animals truly were.
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Gwidon Jakubowski

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