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Eyes on the Inside of Shipments
Special Delivery: Eyes on the Inside of Shipments
Load up the truck -- here comes Connected Freight
What happens when a supermarket receives a truck full of fresh flowers, just before a major holiday, only to find out they had spoiled in transit when the temperature controls failed? How does a manufacturer know if a piece of highly-sensitive electronic equipment is damaged by a heavy bump while being loaded onto a truck?
Every day, transportation and logistics companies are faced with costly challenges when shipping high-value freight, sensitive equipment and perishable goods. In 2016, the U.S. and Canada saw 554 cargo thefts with an average loss of nearly $207,000 per shipment, according to CargoNet.
Connected Freight, a new Internet of Things and cloud solution, provides shippers and logistics companies the ability to monitor freight to avoid theft, reduce waste and minimize damage.
The solution was developed in collaboration with Intel and leading logistics providers DHL, Expeditors and Kuehne + Nagel. Connected Freight uses cost-effective sensor tags that sense a range of factors such as temperature or vibration. A mobile gateway can capture the sensor data within a truck or shipping container and then transmit it to a cloud-based platform for users.
"Shippers, logistics providers and retailers are faced with a host of costly freight challenges such as theft, damage, spoilage and delays," said Taylor Smith, president of Honeywell's Workflow Solutions business. "This cloud-based solution provides our customers with detailed analytics that helps them plan, anticipate and react immediately to incidents that occur during shipment."
For manufacturers and shippers, it is not enough to know a shipment left one place and arrived at another in the logistics chain. Businesses need direct access to data that informs them whether conditions during transit or during the loading process have not damaged the product.
This monitoring could involve knowing if perishable goods &endash; such food and flowers &endash; or pharmaceuticals were exposed to heat that could spoil the product, or if excessive vibration on the road has damaged sensitive equipment.
It makes a lot of sense to those who are in the day-to-day of the logistics world. "We see visibility tracking solutions such as this as an important component to our semiconductor logistics efforts and is something we believe will bring tangible value across other sectors within DHL as well." said Connor F. Charles, vice president of Technology Sector Americas for DHL, which has been supporting and participating in the project."Shipment visibility solutions such as the Connected Freight solution are a critical solution path for logistic service providers to meet the long-term goals of in-transit visibility, security and handling care that are critical elements in industries such as life sciences, semiconductor and others in the future."
Connected Freight was introduced during Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions' launch event broadcast live on May 18. A replay of the launch broadcast can be viewed online at: http://hwll.co/live.
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Caratteristiche tecniche
Paragonato a Nemanja Vidić, è un difensore centrale forte fisicamente e abile nel gioco aereo grazie alla sua altezza (188 cm), sinistro naturale, ha buone capacità tecniche che gli permettono di partecipare attivamente alla costruzione della manovra.

Nel 2012 è stato inserito nella lista dei migliori calciatori nati dopo il 1991 stilata da Don Balón.

Carriera

Club

Gli inizi
Nato a Valjevo, ha iniziato a giocare nella scuola calcio privata Valis, transitando poi nelle altre due squadre cittadine: lo ZSK e il . Durante un incontro di una selezione giovanile della Serbia Occidentale viene notato dagli osservatori del  che lo tesserano per le proprie formazioni giovanili.

Nel gennaio 2010 è stato mandato in prestito in prima divisione serba nel  dove ha collezionato 9 presenze. A luglio 2010 è tornato al club di Belgrado senza riuscire a trovare spazio e nel 2011 viene prestato nuovamente al Teleoptik.

Fiorentina
Il 13 dicembre 2010 viene acquistato dalla  con cui firma un contratto fino al 2014, che però decide di lasciarlo nel campionato serbo sino al termine della stagione.
La conferma dell'acquisto viene data solamente l'11 luglio 2011, quando la società comunica che verrà presentato alla stampa insieme all'altro acquisto Rômulo nel ritiro di Cortina d'Ampezzo, il difensore è stato acquistato per 2,5 milioni di euro.

Esordisce in Serie A l'11 settembre 2011 in Fiorentina- 2-0, subentrando nel secondo tempo ad Alessandro Gamberini. La prima partita da titolare è il 19 novembre 2011 contro il Milan, mentre la sua prima rete l'ha messa a segno il 4 marzo 2012, gol del 2-0 in casa contro il . La sua seconda ed ultima rete in maglia viola l'ha segnata nella partita -Fiorentina, poi finita 2-2.

Manchester City
Il 31 agosto 2012, dopo aver giocato due partite in maglia viola tra campionato e coppa nazionale, viene acquistato dal  per 16 milioni di euro più il cartellino del difensore Stefan Savić. Nel primo anno in Inghilterra verrà schierato sempre titolare nelle 30 presenze realizzate nelle varie competizioni, tra cui la Champions League dove ha esordito il 18 settembre in casa del Real Madrid.

Nella stagione successiva vince la Premier League e la Football League Cup, ma il suo impiego in campo sarà minore rispetto all'anno passato a seguito di alcuni infortuni, avvenuti tra l'inizio stagione e la fine dell'anno, che lo terranno fuori da dicembre fino alla fine stagione.

Nella stagione 2014-2015 non rientra più nei piani del tecnico Manuel Pellegrini  e, complice un nuovo infortunio, gioca solo i novanta della finale di Community Shield persa contro l'Arsenal (3-0), il 18 agosto 2014, a Wembley.

Schalke 04
Il 13 gennaio 2015 passa in prestito ai tedeschi dello . Il 31 gennaio seguente fa il suo esordio con la nuova maglia, nella vittoria per 1-0 contro l'. L'11 marzo 2015 lo Schalke annuncia di aver riscattato il giocatore per 9,5 milioni di euro, che si è legato al club con un contratto quadriennale.
Il successivo 15 agosto, alla prima partita di campionato della stagione successiva, vinta per 3-0 contro il , ha riportato la rottura del tendine d'Achille del piede sinistro; questo infortunio lo ha costretto a saltare tutta la stagione 2015-2016. Nella stagione 2016-2017 colleziona 35 presenze tra campionato e coppe, risultando protagonista con 10 partite nell'edizione di Europa League che si è conclusa per la squadra tedesca ai quarti di finale nel doppio confronto con l'Ajax.

Inizia bene anche la stagione 2017/2018, quella che per i bianco-blu terminerà con un ottimo secondo posto in Bundesliga. 27 presenze tra campionato e coppa nazionale fino ad aprile, quando è di nuovo il ginocchio a infortunarsi.

La successiva stagione gioca con più regolarità e senza infortuni gravi, tornando a calcare il palcoscenico della Champions League dove lo Schalke 04 verrà eliminato negli ottavi di finale dal Manchester City. Il 12 aprile 2019 segna il suo primo gol nel campionato tedesco contro il Norimberga, chiudendo la stagione con 37 presenze e 1 gol tra tutte le competizioni.
Alcuni problemi fisici tornano a colpire tra il 2019 e il 2020, tali da chiudere con appena 16 apparizioni totali la stagione. L'anno successivo lo Schalke 04 è autore di una campionato da dimenticare, chiuso all'ultimo posto con la retrocessione, mentre Nastasic conclude la sua esperienza in Germania già a febbraio per via dell'ennesimo infortunio.

Ritorno alla Fiorentina e Maiorca
Il 21 agosto 2021, nove anni dopo, fa ritorno a Firenze. La Fiorentina lo acquista, infatti, a titolo definitivo per sostituire il centrale appena passato al Betis, Germán Pezzella.

Il 1º settembre 2022, dopo un nuovo infortunio e appena 7 presenze complessive tra cui l'esordio internazionale con i viola nella Conference League 2022-23, rescinde con i toscani e firma con il . Fa il suo esordio, con la nuova maglia, l'11 settembre in casa del Real Madrid (4-1).

Nazionale
È stato capitano dell'Under-17, con cui ha segnato una doppietta nell'Europeo di categoria contro la Svizzera Under-17. Entra a far parte della rosa dell'Under-19. In totale ha raccolto 19 presenze e 6 goal nelle selezioni giovanili della sua nazione. Attualmente, nonostante la giovanissima età, è stato selezionato anche per l'Under-21. Viene convocato per la prima volta dalla nazionale maggiore per le amichevoli contro  e  del 28 e 29 febbraio 2012. Esordisce nella partita contro Cipro terminata 0-0.

Statistiche

Presenze e reti nei club
Statistiche aggiornate al 2 novembre 2022

Cronologia presenze e reti in nazionale

Palmarès

Club

Competizioni nazionali

Manchester City: 2013-2014

Manchester City: 2013-2014

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Calciatori della Nazionale serba

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Are Financial Investors Destabilising the Oil Market?
Leo Drollas. Centre for Global Energy Studies Consideration is given to what has caused the extreme volatility in oil price in the last two years and whether this relates to fundamentals or the oil futures market. It is suggested that what determines oil prices in the short run is linked in part to inventory disequilibrium's, with desired inventories being a function of oil demand, stocks and the shape of the forward curve. The forward curve is exclusively a product of the futures market. Whilst oil fundamentals affect price, the instability of the industry impacts on expectations in terms of future supplies, demand, and costs, resulting in price volatility and a concomitant need for hedging. Future prices offer speculators an opportunity to profit from the oil market's instability, but speculators are not responsible for the oil market's instability, rather they can exaggerate oil price movements.
Michele Della Vigna, Goldman Sachs International The Top230 study models the largest 230 new oil and gas developments in the world to provide insight into the development of large new projects, the industry's ability to deliver them, and the declining rates of the producing base. The study shows that of the largest developments, 13 are within Europe, 25 are within South America, 31 are in the Asia-Pacific, 50 are in North America, 55 are within Asia and the Middle East and 56 are within Africa. Production levels for those fields that are included in the Top230 study, as well as those outside of it, are shown from 2002 (projected to 2014). Key findings in terms of oil supply include: a decline in maturing new projects based on Final Investment Decisions between 2007/09; decline rates in non-OPEC have increased; and the industry's delivery track record has been very poor. If these trends continue, non-OPEC faces potentially disastrous production declines.
Bassam Fattouh, OIES Since 1986 the year-on-year change in global oil demand has generally exceeded total non-OPEC supply, with the gap increasingly met through OPEC. This is leading to a gradual decline in spare capacity and upward pressure on oil prices. Analysing OPEC's response to this shows a cyclical pattern and an asymmetry is also evident, in terms of their objectives in a falling market, when they seek to defend oil prices from falling below some level deemed unacceptable; as well as in a rising market where OPEC seek to increase output in response to customers' demand at market determined prices. The mechanism and issues associated with these responses are described. Looking ahead, a range of uncertainties continue to exist, including these asymmetrical responses, as well as issues relating to inventories, spare capacity, and the views between OPEC and oil importers.


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Civil Conversations Project
On Being with Krista Tippett
Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser
The Mystery We Are
Novelist Marilynne Robinson and physicist Marcelo Gleiser are both passionate about the majesty of science, and they share a caution about what they call our modern "piety" toward science. They connect thrilling dots among the current discoveries about the cosmos and the new territory of understanding our own minds. We brought them together for a joyous, heady discussion of the mystery we are.
Play Unedited Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser
Image by Taylor Durrer/Unsplash, Public Domain Dedication (CC0).
Marilynne Robinson is a professor emeritus of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She's the author of several novels, including Housekeeping, Home, and Gilead, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her works of nonfiction include Absence of Mind and, most recently, What Are We Doing Here?
Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and a professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College. He's the author of The Dancing Universe, A Tear at the Edge of Creation, and, most recently, The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything. He was awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize.
Krista Tippett, host: Novelist Marilynne Robinson and physicist Marcelo Gleiser are both passionate about the majesty of science — and they share a caution about what they call our modern "piety" towards science. They connect thrilling dots among the current discoveries about the cosmos and the new territory of understanding our own minds. We brought them together for a joyous, heady discussion of "the mystery we are."
[music: "Seven League Boots" by Zoë Keating]
Marilynne Robinson: I tell my students, actually, that the mind continuously creates hypotheses, and when you're writing fiction you're doing something of the same kind. This is the best model I can create of what this reality would be.
Marcelo Gleiser: Do you feel when you write and you create characters, do you feel like they drive you in a certain way?
Ms. Robinson: Absolutely, and thank God when they do.
Mr. Gleiser: [laughs] Because, we do too. We're not always in control. We're just making sure all the minus signs and the plus signs match, you know.
Ms. Robinson: Wonderful.
Mr. Gleiser: But it really has a way that it wants to go, and when you find a solution or something that looks like a solution, you get emotionally moved.
Ms. Tippett: I'm Krista Tippett and this is On Being. I interviewed Marcelo Gleiser and Marilynne Robinson in 2012 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. We were there at the invitation of the Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry and its director, Will Storrar.
[applause]
Ms. Tippett: Well, you know, I did not prepare an introduction to these two. I don't think Marilynne Robinson needs any introduction. Can I say that you are one of the most requested names that comes through our email inbox of my program, year after year.
Ms. Robinson: Thank you.
Ms. Tippett: So finally here you are. The author of Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, and Absence of Mind, which is the book that we're going to focus on especially tonight. And Marcelo Gleiser I have just gotten to know through — what is the name of your book? A Tear…?
Mr. Gleiser: A Tear at the Edge of Creation.
Ms. Tippett: A Tear at the Edge of Creation. A fabulous book, and I'm so happy to be introduced to this work and this writing. So Will gave the evening this lovely evocative title which I was thrilled to take on: "The Mystery We Are." And I want to start with that phrase — actually would like to start with you, Marcelo.
You grew up in Brazil. You've written that growing up in the tropics is a blissful portal into the natural world. I wonder if you could just say a little bit about how you trace back to your earliest life your sense of mystery as something thrilling and animating and also eventually linked to science.
Mr. Gleiser: I grew up in Rio in particular and right in front of the ocean. So it's impossible not to be amazed by the enormity of nature when you have that huge, beautiful Atlantic Ocean in front of you. And I was lucky that my grandparents had a house in the mountains about two hours from Rio, which we used to go to, which is part of what is called the Atlantic Forest, which is this incredibly luscious, full of life, orchids and bromeliads exploding everywhere that enchanted Charles Darwin when he went down there, you know, on The Beagle and he talked about this power of nature.
So I think from a very early age I was just mystified by the beauty of this, and I wanted to understand how was that all possible, you know? And initially I looked for answers, so to speak, to religion. I grew up in a Jewish family, and I had a very formal Jewish education. And then I didn't feel satisfied with that. I wanted something different.
And then for my bar mitzvah, I actually got an autographed picture of Albert Einstein, who was in Brazil in 1925, and he was hosted by our grandfather.
So I was blown away by that and I decide to know who is this man.
Ms. Tippett: He was visiting the Jewish community there, which is, I think, a part of Einstein's life that we don't hear as much about.
Mr. Gleiser: Yes. Exactly. So Einstein, after he became a superstar, he went down to South America to raise money for the Zionist cause. So the Jewish community is all kind of galvanized by this. And it turns out that his host in Rio was my grandfather, and they took a picture together, and they both autographed this. And that became my little altar, this man.
And so I would worship, and I would learn about him more and more. And I said, "I want do this." And one thing that he always wrote about was about the mystery of nature as the driving force behind science and scientific curiosity. And to me, that spoke to me directly: that science was not so much about finding all the answers but actually about courting with the mystery of the unknown. And I still feel that way.
Ms. Tippett: And Marilynne, you grew up in Idaho, which you describe also as a place of more austere but intense beauty. So I want to ask you the same question. How do you trace the roots of your sense of mystery also as something that came to be an animating force for you as a novelist and a writer?
Ms. Robinson: Well, my grandparents had a house in the mountains not terribly far from where I lived. It was in the western side of the Rocky Mountains, near Canada, and the proportion, or the disproportion, of nature on the one hand and human settlement on the other was really striking. As a child, I grew up with the idea that human beings were a fairly trivial presence in the environment and that the mountains, you could hear them all the time. You could smell them. There was pine in the air or snow or whatever.
My grandparents had a house built actually by my great-grandparents, which was modern by the standards of the late 19th century and so it had a sleeping porch. You were supposed to sleep out there so that you wouldn't get tuberculosis. And I didn't, but in any case, it was amazing because at night you would hear the mountains. You would hear coyotes, and there was no other light. There was no sense of human presence aside from my grandparents' house.
And for me, because of the atmosphere of my own childhood, this became very, very deeply associated with theology for me, with religion, with the idea of the presence of God. And I think that this sort of fusion is characteristically American in a lot of ways. When I went to college in New England and read the Transcendentalists, I thought, "Exactly."
Ms. Tippett: So in your recent writing, each of you is driven from different directions by an observation that we have been working, thinking, acting on outdated models of reality, a limited conception of humanity and of the universe and even of science.
Marcelo, you talk about growing up, as you became interested in science, fascinated with this idea of unification, which was an idea of Einstein. And you talk about going to grad school, following this intellectual Holy Grail. But you don't quite see it that way anymore.
Mr. Gleiser: Right. So just to clarify, one of the grand goals of modern physics is to build a theory of everything, a T.O.E. Not a very beautiful name. But a theory of everything that would in principle explain all that we can observe in nature in terms of a single force, so to speak. And it's a very beautiful idea. It's very Platonist in its essence — that the essence of nature is mathematical. There is one big symmetry out there; and that symmetry is beautiful; and beauty is truth. And hence, there has to be that sort of idea in nature as well. And a lot of people, including Einstein — Einstein spent 20 years of his life looking for this theory of everything, this unifying theory. And of course he didn't find it.
I went to grad school trying to find it too. And after many years doing this and talking to lots of my colleagues, I came to the conclusion that that's impossible. That the theory of everything is an impossibility as a matter of principle. And the problem is this: that the way we understand the world — and interrupt me if I go on for too long.
Ms. Tippett: No, no. It's good. We're with you.
Mr. Gleiser: The way we understand the world is very much based on what we can see of the world, right? Science is based on measurements and observations. And the notion that we can actually come up and have a theory that explains everything assumes that we can know everything, right? That we can go out and measure everything there is to measure about nature and come up with this beautiful theory of everything. And since we cannot measure all there is to measure, since our tools have limitations, we are definitely limited in how much we can know of the world.
So you can even build a theory that would explain everything that we know now. But then two weeks from now, someone else will come and find something new that does not fit in your theory. And that's not a theory of everything anymore because it doesn't include everything that can be included.
Ms. Tippett: And the implication of that is this sense that there would be some apprehension of reality of the universe, which would be perfect. It would be about stasis and perfection. But the way you're seeing it now is more about the universe being about change and transformation in our knowledge and that being the state of things.
Mr. Gleiser: Yes. That's true. So when you look out into the nature, everything is in transformation at all times. And we see this at the very small and we see this at the very large. When we look at the whole universe, it is expanding, it's growing, it's changing in time. And so, to me, I look at things much more as a state of flux, of becoming, of transformation, as something that has some static truth behind it. Let's put it that way. So the notion that we as humans could come up with a final answer to the mystery of nature is pushing things a little too far for our capabilities. Let's put it that way.
Ms. Tippett: And Marilynne, in Absence of Mind, you're saying many things, but to simplify, one thing you're saying is that modern people don't understand how thrilling and rich science is now and that culture has an antiquated view of science's place.
Ms. Robinson: I teach graduate students. I teach highly educated graduate students, and I find that their level of understanding of science is pretty abysmal. And I wonder what it is that makes a culture that really creates its fate and its future, basically, out of science is not telling people — the thing about science, contemporary science, is that it is as profound in its revelation certainly as Galileo ever was — or Copernicus.
The fact that we can know things that absolutely revolutionized previous models of the universe we inhabit. This amazing expansion into the microcosm, an expansion into the macrocosm, all these things that are happening are extremely beautiful and they are an enormous mirror of the competencies and the aspirations of the human mind. And I think, how are we letting people miss out on this? You know, just the esthetics of it.
Ms. Tippett: And the nub of some of the difficulty you describe as this far too simplistic choice that I think people, maybe Americans in particular, have felt that they had to make between an idea that the universe is created or the idea that it is all some kind of cosmic accident.
Ms. Robinson: As far as the scale of what we're learning to know, the psalmist has better intuitions about it than Richard Dawkins. But we're pious toward science. It does in fact criticize itself and overturn itself. It deserves that reputation. But this strange little world that we're presented as being scientific isn't; it's some sort of petrified conception that would have been at home in the 19th century.
Ms. Tippett: Do you have any …
Mr. Gleiser: No. I actually — being a scientist, I actually agree with Marilynne. I think that once you adopt that there is only one way of understanding the complexity of things you're just emptying humanity of its value, of the plurality of visions. And so, yes, science is powerful. I love it. I do it. But there are other ways of knowing. And to say that there is only one way of understanding the mind, which is a topic that Marilynne talks so much about in her book, is just silly, to be honest. It's impoverishing the richness of human culture.
[music: "Fairy Dust" by Michael Wood]
Ms. Tippett: I'm Krista Tippett, and this is On Being — today in a public conversation with Marcelo Gleiser, a physicist at Dartmouth College and a poetic writer about science, together with novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson.
Ms. Tippett: I also want to talk about this idea of creation and of myth. Because, Marcelo, you are not a religious person. Marilynne, you are certainly someone who — well, you preach and you teach the Old Testament and you are a big defender of John Calvin.
Ms. Robinson: You summed me up. [laughs]
Ms. Tippett: So, I mean, let's talk about creation and the word "myth." I think both of you have a real reverence for this kind of language and these ways of knowing, even though you might assess them differently.
Ms. Robinson: I think that if you look at, for example, the first creation narrative in the Old Testament, it's pretty amazing as an ancient account of creation. The fact that — it's perhaps overstating the case, but better than anything else, it does anticipate the modern cosmology, the creation of something out of nothing, which might be mythic language but very close. I mean, we can't do much better than that, I think.
It describes the emergence of the cosmos and of life in the world in stages. They don't exactly line up with ours but still, you know, that's an interesting insight.
Ms. Tippett: It's almost an evolutionary account.
Ms. Robinson: It's almost evolutionary.
Ms. Tippett: Yeah.
Ms. Robinson: Exactly. The second creation narrative, which is the source of a lot of trouble, actually is understood as a fable or a midrash or whatever you want to call it as early as the writer Josephus. And that's what I think it is properly to be understood as. But in any case, the idea of the abrupt emergence of something fantastically beautiful and intricate is descriptive. People can use the language that would call it myth, and I think that myth is the expression of the intuition of cosmology among ancient people.
They didn't have, of course, or perhaps would not have chosen to have the kind of language that we use for these kinds of things, but the general perception or intuition that you find in many ancient cultures — so far as I know, all of them — that there was a beginning. Even Hesiod describes the beginning. That's a profound intuition that did not burst upon modern scientific sensibilities until Irwin Hubble, until the 20th century. So you have people like Einstein and Bertrand Russell and so on who thought there was no reason to imagine that the universe had ever had to begin at all.
Ms. Tippett: Right, Bertrand Russell. You quote him: "The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination."
Ms. Robinson: Exactly. Who knows what this means, that human beings had a profounder intuition than science could confirm into the modern period, but you have to respect it. There it is.
Mr. Gleiser: Right. So I actually wrote a book way before this last one, called The Dancing Universe: From Creation Myths to the Big Bang. And what I do there is I look at all sorts of different creation myths from cultures around the world in different times in the ways they dealt with the question of creation, the question of the origin of the world, which to me is the most complicated question you can possibly ask. Right? So I call it "the question." Right?
So then I go and I look at cosmology in the 20th century, before we had data. And what happened? All the models, the theories that cosmologists use to explain the universe reproduced these mythic ideas. So there was a universe that was cyclic, just like the dancing of Shiva. There were universe that, at least on paper, were created out of a moment in time, which was Friedmann came up with this model in 1922 before Hubble confirmed it. Right? And then there was an eternal universe as well.
So to me what's really remarkable is two things. First, that all of this shows how we want to know. Right? I mean, the unity here between the two sides, if you want, is on the questioning on we need to know our origins.
Ms. Tippett: The two sides religion and science, you mean?
Mr. Gleiser: Yes. The mythic narratives and the scientific narratives, they're both asking the same question: Where did everything come from? And then, of course, before data there was also the universality of human thought, if you want. Like, there were certain ways in which you can — there are only some ways in which you can answer this question and the scientists repeated them until, of course, data came. And only in the 1960s we were finally able to kind of discern that, you know, the Big Bang, meaning there was really a moment in time, seems to be the best way to describe what we see.
Ms. Tippett: To begin to speak of beginnings, to use that word in a scientific way.
When I was reading the two of you about this, it was the first time that I found myself wondering, why is it that we are so obsessed with the question of beginnings and origins? I mean, I wonder as a novelist if you have a thought about that.
Ms. Robinson: Think, frankly, that as modern people we struggle under certain prejudices against ourselves, that there are ways in which we have lost contact with, you know, the earlier intuitions that actually described themselves in culture and in literature and so on. But, uh, I think, you know, everyone wants to have a narrative of personal origins. Most of us want to have narratives of what you might sort of call tribal origins, you know: where did my grandparents come from and why and that sort of thing, you know.
I think that our bond with humankind is felt as a sort of very much enlarged family narrative of origins in that sense, you know. There's some sort of a feeling that if you know where you came from you would know who you are. You would know what you should do. We lack definition of ourselves, which is an incredibly haunting feature of human life. And I think that often we, you know, if you look at these narratives like the epic of Gilgamesh or something like that, it says things about who the gods are, what the purpose of human life is, and so on. I think these are questions that people need, crave, and they take them right back to primal origins.
Ms. Tippett: Marilynne, you struggle a bit, I think, with science. You have a sense that even when people didn't have the science that we have now to think about the universe, we had this ancient intuition of our part in it. And is science at play in diminishing that? Is it cultural?
Ms. Robinson: I think that what we think of as science, or modern science, is something that puts into eclipse other forms of thinking that were also efficacious. Richard Feynman has written a — I read an essay of his in which he talks about identity. I mean, he says it's so amazing that I experience myself as myself over a year of time, that I retain memory and so on, when every atom in my brain would have been changed. But you can find the same statement almost syllable but syllable in John Locke who was writing in the 17th century, who says exactly the same thing. Every atom in my brain would have changed. And the question is how did John Locke know that? How is it that the Islamic philosophers that Maimonides was in conversation with were able to quantize time, essentially, as a way of solving the problem of time. How did they do that? How did they know?
I think that a great deal of what we do scientifically in the modern sense is actually the confirmation of the kinds of thinking that we either receive traditionally or would have arrived at by other means. And I think that — I mean, I'm very interested now in trying to see how people thought before they had this word "science" descend on the conversation in the form that it does now.
Mr. Gleiser: Right. I think it's impossible to separate us from nature. So when you go to the stories of creation and the relationship — the attempts at explanation that they are, they're really a pre-scientific mode of dealing with the unknown. Right? These people must have been completely baffled by existence, just like we are.
Ms. Tippett: Right. [laughs]
Mr. Gleiser: And we looked out and we see how is it possible that there are these regular cycles in nature like the sun coming back every day, the seasons. And then days of volcanic eruption, that there is a terrifying total eclipse of the sun. How do you have regular and irregular things going on in nature? Who is in control of that? And so, to me, those preliminary ways of making sense, of making meaning were just attempts at trying to have some level of control for things which were way beyond people's control. And science is just the new incarnation of the same sort of effort.
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Ms. Tippett: This conversation was part of a symposium hosted by the Princeton Center of Theological Inquiry; it marked the centenary of the birth of Sir John Templeton. Full disclosure: The John Templeton Foundation is one of On Being's funding partners, and since this conversation, Marcelo Gleiser became a recipient of the Templeton Prize.
After a short break, more with Marcelo Gleiser and Marilynne Robinson. And you can find this show again in several of the libraries at onbeing.org: Creative Life, Science and Being, and Words Make Worlds. Find this and an abundance of more at onbeing.org.
Ms. Tippett: I'm Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. Today, "The Mystery We Are," a public conversation with Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser. Marilynne Robinson is an author of acclaimed novels. She's been talking about her fascination with the echoes she hears back and forth between modern science, religion, and the arts across the ages. Marcelo Gleiser is a Brazilian-born physicist who's captivated by the beauty and mystery at the heart of scientific discovery. He's also the author of poetic books about science, including A Tear at the Edge of Creation.
Ms. Tippett: There's a line that you wrote, Marcelo, that is the kind of statement that you're making as a physicist, but it's also just a statement about being human, right? "Symmetry may have its appeal, but it is inherently stale: Some kind of imbalance is behind every transformation." I mean, you could be talking about the cosmos and you could be talking about me yesterday, right?
Mr. Gleiser: Yeah. Absolutely.
Mr. Gleiser: In this book I was having the very humble mission of trying to create a new aesthetic for physics. So basically saying that we need to look at the imperfection if you really want to get at things and give up the notion that there is this beautiful perfection behind everything. The modes of description that we use are fundamentally incomplete. And so let's embrace the imperfection, what's not perfect.
I always try and say do not try to make science into God. Because truly that's the idea, right? This notion that there is this oneness, perfection that you can describe through science is basically trying to create a scientific model for God.
Ms. Tippett: You know, Marcelo, you make this kind of provocative observation that with the search for the Unified Theory, science has set up a parallel to the God of the Gaps — which was the problem, especially in the 20th century, this idea that God began where our scientific knowledge ran out. And you're saying that now the reality is that sort of Unified Theory begins where our scientific knowledge runs out.
Mr. Gleiser: Well, so the God of the Gaps is a notion that is old, right, in the sense that even Newton had to use it because when he was talking about how the planets went around the sun, the question was what gave the initial impulse for the planets to move around the sun. So he invoked God. God was a very, very important presence in the Newtonian universe. And so this whole idea of trying to put God where we don't understand the world is a terrible idea. I think it's theologically a very bad move, because science will advance, you know, and it will learn more and more about the world. And then God will be squeezed out of this gap and then have to go to another gap.
But the thing about where does this Unified Theory need come from, that's what always mystified me, even though I was a convert in the beginning, you know. And I think it really is a byproduct of having lived with monotheistic faiths for so long. So culturally it's very enticing for science to come up with this one explanation of everything. And I really trace the roots of that through monotheistic faith.
Ms. Tippett: I wonder what questions you might have of each other.
Mr. Gleiser: Well, let's see. So, Marilynne, you speak so eloquently of the need for diversity in understanding things. Maybe you can talk to us a little bit about that and why this kind of one-way one-track of science is misleading us.
Ms. Robinson: Well, I'm always — my first criticism of that version of science is that I think that it does not at all describe the best that science does. First of all, because science is — its genius is self-criticism. When you find out that the universe is accelerating and accelerating in its rate of acceleration and so on, this is not supposed to be true and the moment that they find out that all major assumptions have been overthrown, there's rejoicing in the scientific community, you know.
And that's a lovely, you know, that is the authority of science for me. The fact that we cannot be articulate about ourselves — and I think that's deeply true. I think that the arts are our effort to articulate the experience of self and mind and so on that is inaccessible to scientific description — that that deep yearning that is as ancient as the desire to know where we came from and the rest of it has been disallowed as the legitimate part of the human record and the human conversation. And this seems to me to be completely arbitrary. And along with, of course, other forms of the profound self-exploration of human inwardness is the rejection of religion, which is also put out of account. There's nothing really more universal, I think, in human cultures than the impulse to religion.
If you were looking at it dispassionately, the question of what people are, you would have to take this very enormous and elaborate self-description seriously as a datum, so to speak. And I think that if people have interests that are scientific but don't tend toward addressing questions of that kind, fine. They've distinguished themselves. It's beautiful. But they can't act as if they have addressed those questions when in fact everything that they do is actually relevant to another set of issues.
Ms. Tippett: I think you're actually saying that to dismiss that very ancient and pervasive aspect of human life and human culture is irrational on some level.
Ms. Robinson: Yes
Mr. Gleiser: Yeah. And to think of science as separate from spirituality to me is a big mistake. There is nothing that says that science should be dispassionate about the spirit or the life of the spirit. And to me it's quite the opposite. It's exactly because I feel very spiritually connected with nature that I am a scientist. And to write equations on a blackboard and to come up with models about how nature works is, in a sense, a form of worship of that spirituality. And I feel that very concretely all the time.
Ms. Tippett: Do you have a question of Marcelo?
Ms. Robinson: Oh, my. One thing that I find when I'm reading, you know, scientists that write in a popular way, writing these issues and that frankly I've found a couple of times in your book, is a tendency to use the word "explain" when I would say the appropriate word is "describe." If they figure out the fine points of photosynthesis, maybe we'll say, well, it's a quantum phenomenon or something like that. That's a description. It's not an explanation. And perhaps there are things that are not — don't make themselves available to explanation but that does not mean that description stands in the place of explanation.
And if somebody says why does a clock tell time, you can describe the mechanism of the particular clock or you can say people arrived at a convenient definition of one day, divided it into arbitrary segments, and made a mechanism that would measure those segments because culture required timekeeping with that degree of precision. Now, that's not a complete explanation, but it is explanatory whereas the other one is only descriptive.
And I think that's a very important distinction that is not made because very often when people look at religious accounts of things, people looking at them from the outside, they say, no, that's not an explanation. Actually, the explanation is that it was beneficial to the leopards' existence that it blended into a shadowy landscape — hence, spots. You know what I mean? This is descriptive. It is not explanatory.
Mr. Gleiser: I'm fine with that.
[laughter]
Mr. Gleiser: I don't think I have any claims there. I would say that we are just trying to make sense of physical reality in the best way we can, and perhaps what you are implicitly referring to is the lack of humility that sometimes comes with the scientific kind of rhetoric — that there is sort of this, like, "this is how it is" kind of thing. And the ones that probably bother you the most are the ones that get the public voice and that do make rhetorical statements about things such as now science can understand the origin of the universe, which is absolutely not true, formally not true. But the statement comes out in the media and in books by very famous people all the time. And that bothers me as much as it bothers you.
Ms. Tippett: Somehow it's in the nature of media and our public dialogue that it's not the humblest voices of religion or science who make their way in front — to microphones and cameras.
Ms. Robinson: That is so true.
Mr. Gleiser: That's right.
Ms. Tippett: But here you are in front of a microphone.
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Ms. Tippett: I'm Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. Today, "The Mystery We Are," a public discussion with theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser and novelist Marilynne Robinson.
Ms. Tippett: Here's a line of Reverend Ames in Gilead: "This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it."
Just before we finish, let's talk a little bit about mind, which takes us a little bit outside the realm of physics, but very much into your writing, Marilynne. And somehow, the primacy, the centrality of our minds, the power of them, even in all of this discerning of distant galaxies.
Ms. Robinson: I think one of the things that is fascinating is that we don't know who we are. Human beings in acting out history describe themselves, and every new epic is a new description of what human beings are. Every life is a new description of what human beings are. Every work of science, every object of art is new information. And it is inconceivable at this point that we could say anything final about what the human mind is, because it is demonstrating, you know, in beautiful ways and terrifying ways, that it will surprise us over and over and over again. You know?
And if I read something that seems to me — I mean, we have mind in two senses, or of several senses, but one of them is the the individual, striving mind: I want to come up to the mark. I want to follow my passion. I want to let myself think about something that seems beautiful to me. There's that mind. And then there is the larger, collective mind that somehow or other seems to sort of magnify impulses and so on that occur among us individually.
When you think how even the most brilliant people living in the first century would see how we know and what we know now and so on — which is basically a pure elaboration of what they'd already started — nevertheless, they would be completely astonished. They would say that human beings could've done such a thing. We know things about our minds because we have seen them reaching and reaching and unfolding in this uncanny way that they do.
And I just think that undervaluing mind, it distorts what we're capable of. You know? I don't know. That's what I think. I think the mind is fantastically competent and beautiful and in a very large degree unexplored.
Ms. Tippett: Marcelo, is this new frontier of mind and consciousness, is it challenging for physics? Or where does it fit into your way of seeing the world?
Mr. Gleiser: It's very challenging, because the way physics traditionally has worked is through this reductionistic method, right? You look at a complicated problem, you break it down into small parts, you understand how these small parts work and then try to make sense of the whole. And this extrapolation works beautifully when you talk about stars and galaxies, but it really fails miserably when you're talking about the mind or the brain. Right?
So as I said earlier on, you can't understand the brain by understanding how a neuron works. And so it poses a tremendous difficulty for physics because we can't model the brain. Right? And physicists, that's what we do for a living. We make models. We test our hypothesis. And we need a different kind of explanatory, descriptive tool because the way we have dealt with things just won't work for the brain.
So what would that be now, right? So there is this whole new notion that comes from complexity theory that the mind is an emergent phenomenon that we can't quite explain that has to do with the concatenation of many different groups of neurons at the same time. So the interesting thing about that is that, if that is true, then new laws will emerge at different levels of complexity. And you can't go from one level to the other level directly. You really need a completely different kind of explanation. And we're not there yet, but it's just an alternative way of thinking about how the brain works. And to me, given the complexity, even if we go there and we gain some level of understanding above what we know now, it's always going to be incomplete, just like Marilynne said.
Ms. Tippett: But I think that part is exciting for you, the fact that it will be incomplete, the fact that there will always be more to learn.
Mr. Gleiser: Yes. When I was saying this, I was thinking can we ever build a machine that thinks? That's really the question, right? Because if you could build a clock that thinks, then you'd really say, yes, we mechanized the brain and we understand exactly how it works and what are the rules that make it all make sense. But I am a skeptic when it comes to that. I really am, at least for the foreseeable future. I don't see how, even increasing the power of computers, we'll be able to do that.
What we will be able to do is what the internet is already doing, which is creating an enormous databank of information that will almost look intelligent, but you will always be asking the questions. It's the asking of the question that is the mystery, not so much how you find the ways to answer it.
Ms. Tippett: I think that's a wonderful thought, that the asking of the questions is the mystery. I occurred to me when I was reading both of you and thinking about this conversation how much a novelist and a scientist, a physicist, have in common as creators and discovers.
Ms. Robinson: I'm flattered.
Mr. Gleiser: So am I. I mean, novelists create universes, right? Talk about a multiverse. You know, the mind of a novelist is a huge multiverse, because they are creating all these different dynamics and people that don't exist.
So in a sense, you know, you are playing with inventing lives and minds and stories. So you are amplifying the mind every time you do such a thing.
Ms. Robinson: Yes. There's that problem of plausibility — making what even appears to be a sort of working model of a human personality is such a delicate thing. [laughs]
Mr. Gleiser: For sure. How is it that you say? That fiction is — it's telling lies but want to make sure they sound like truth.
Ms. Robinson: Exactly.
Mr. Gleiser: Right? And we're trying to do something similar. We're trying to make models, which are never the whole truth of nature. That is a fundamental point. Every model is a lie, but some models explain more than others.
Ms. Robinson: I tell my students, actually, that the mind continuously creates hypotheses. You know, tomorrow is a hypothesis. You have some theory of the general shape of tomorrow, which could be completely false, completely inaccurate, but you have to have the hypothesis in order to be sane and act rationally in the world and so on. And when you're writing fiction, you're doing something of the same kind. Or when you're making a scientific theory, you're doing something of the same kind: This is the best model I can create of what this reality would be.
And in fiction, unless the fiction fails, the hypothesis does not get exploded but at the same time you always understand its hypothetical nature, whereas in science the hypothesis is floated and retrieves what it can and explodes if it needs to.
Mr. Gleiser: Do you feel when you write and you create characters, do you feel like they drive you in a certain way?
Ms. Robinson: Absolutely. And thank God when they do.
Mr. Gleiser: Because we do too. When you're working on a technical problem, it seems to have a way to go that we are not always in control. We're just making sure all the minus signs and the plus signs match.
Mr. Gleiser: You know? But it really has a way that it wants to go, which is kind of beyond what we have total control of.
Ms. Robinson: That's fascinating. It is.
Mr. Gleiser: And when you find the solution or something that looks like a solution, you get emotionally moved to an amazing extent, especially when it's a surprising thing. You know, it really is a spiritual emotion. Like, I've had this a few times — not many. I actually probably had it several times but I just had a couple. But when I have this, it really is something transcendent.
Ms. Robinson: Do you think that, for example, teleology might be an inadequate way of articulating what you're talking about? Teleology is sort of forbidden, but you can feel the shape of something pulling you toward something that you don't intend, and it's as if the shape is somehow intrinsic and the conclusion is somehow necessary?
Mr. Gleiser: That's funny because you phrased it in the negative. But that's very smart. Maybe? I am always afraid of teleology. Teleology has so many different traps. And so the question is always if it's teleology who's in control? And I don't know.
Mr. Gleiser: You know, who are your characters there driving you?
Ms. Robinson: Yeah. But you don't know who's in control and you have the feeling that there is some sort of intrinsic control emerging. In the sense, for example, that if you're creating a character and you ask him to do the wrong thing, use the wrong language, or leave when the conversation isn't over, he refuses. And I'm sure that when you're doing something like that you just, you take a wrong turn and it tells you it's a wrong turn in some way.
Mr. Gleiser: Absolutely. You know you're going wrong. You completely do. And that's what's hard about science and about fiction writing is that sometimes you're forced to go where you don't want to go because otherwise you are violating a certain law. And it's just horrifying, right, because you really want to prove something, but you can't, because it's wrong. And you really believe in it, but that's not good enough, right? And that's sort of the ruthless aspect of science in a sense that — I don't know, maybe as fiction you have a little more freedom than we do in that sense.
Ms. Robinson: Or another kind.
Ms. Tippett: So I think in a very remarkable way we've ended up back at the mystery of creation and even wandered into free will, but we don't have time to go there this evening. And so I want to thank Marcelo Gleiser and Marilynne Robinson and Templeton Foundation and Center of Theological Inquiry for hosting this. It was lovely to be here.
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Ms. Tippett: Marcelo Gleiser is Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. He's the author of The Dancing Universe, A Tear at the Edge of Creation, and, most recently, The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher's Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything. He was awarded the 2019 Templeton Prize.
Marilynne Robinson is a professor emeritus of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She's the author of several novels — including Housekeeping, Home, and Gilead, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Her works of nonfiction include Absence of Mind and, most recently, What Are We Doing Here?
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Countdown to an all-new Spyker: The B6 Venator
A low-res picture has been leaked of Spyker's new Porsche 911 rival, and it certainly bodes well for the Dutch sports-car maker's resurgence.
Do you remember Spyker? Maker of the C8 Aileron, who acquired the Midland F1 team in 2006 and competed at the pinnacle of motorsport with home grown superstar driver Jos Vertappen?
Then in 2011, after running into financial difficulties, it hit the skids – being passed from one investor to another in a serious of failed attempts to refinance the business. Then in 2012, China's Youngman Ltd acquired a 29.9% stake in Spyker N.V and all went quiet.
Founder and CEO, Victor Muller, who put together the deal with Youngman's CEO Pang Qingnian, said in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal that the new B6 concept car will be named Venator ('Hunter' in Latin) and be about the size of a Porsche Cayman. It's due to cost somewhere between $160,000 and $200,000 and be powered by a mid-mounted V6 engine producing around 370bhp.
The hand-built sports car uses an aluminium chassis with carbon-fibre bodywork to keep its weight down to less than 1,450kg, meaning its 370bhp should be just about enough to keep things perky.
With an almost debt-free business, a new joint venture 'Spyker Phoenix' plans to develop and manufacture a full range of premium car models based on the Phoenix platform developed by Saab Automobile AB in 2010/2011. While a second JV, called Spyker P2P, will continue development of the Spyker D8 Peking-to-Paris, a $250,000 four door Super Sports Utility Vehicle ("SSUV") due for launch by the end of 2014.
In the meantime we await the B6 Venator's premiere at the Geneva Motor Show tomorrow morning.
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Mortality Similar With Torsemide, Furosemide for Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure
No significant difference seen in all-cause mortality or all-cause hospitalization over 12 months
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TUESDAY, Jan. 24, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For patients hospitalized for heart failure, all-cause mortality does not differ significantly at 12 months for those receiving torsemide or furosemide, according to a study published in the Jan. 17 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Robert J. Mentz, M.D., from the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, North Carolina, and colleagues compared torsemide and furosemide among 2,859 patients hospitalized for heart failure in an open-label randomized trial conducted at 60 hospitals.
The researchers found that death occurred in 26.1 and 26.2 percent of 1,431 and 1,428 patients in the torsemide and furosemide groups, respectively (hazard ratio, 1.02; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.89 to 1.18). All-cause mortality or all-cause hospitalization occurred in 47.3 and 49.3 percent of patients in the torsemide and furosemide groups, respectively (hazard ratio, 0.92; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.83 to 1.02). Overall, there were 940 and 987 total hospitalizations among 536 and 577 participants in the torsemide and furosemide groups, respectively (rate ratio, 0.94; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.84 to 1.07). Similar results were seen in prespecified subgroups.
"Our study showed that torsemide did not improve survival compared to furosemide in this high-risk population of patients with heart failure, and we also observed similar rates of hospitalization with the two medications," Mentz said in a statement.
Several authors disclosed financial ties to the biopharmaceutical industry.
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Q: How can I find in wich points $f(x)$ continuous? and how can I find in which points $f(x)$ differentiable? given $f: \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ so that:
$$f(x) = \begin{cases}x & x  \in \mathbb{Q}  \\ ax(x-1) & x  \not \in \mathbb{Q} \end{cases}$$
How can I find in which points $f(x)$ continuous? And how can I find in which points $f(x)$ is differentiable?

A: Continuity of $f$
As the rationals and the irrationals are both dense in $\mathbb R$, and the functions $f_1: x \mapsto x$ and $f_2: x \mapsto ax(x-1)$ are both continuous real functions, $f$ is continuous at $x$ if and only if
$$x = ax(x-1)$$
If $a =0$, $0$ is the only solution of this equation.
And for $a \neq 0$, the solutions are $0$ and $a +\frac{1}{a}$.
Differentiability of $f$
As a map can only be differentiable where it is continuous, we are left to study differentiability at points find above.
If $a=0$, we have
$$f(x) = \begin{cases}x & x  \in \mathbb{Q}  \\ 0 & x  \not \in \mathbb{Q} \end{cases}$$ and for $ h \neq 0$
$$\frac{f(h)-f(0)}{h-0}= \begin{cases}1 & x  \in \mathbb{Q}  \\ 0 & x  \not \in \mathbb{Q} \end{cases}$$
hence $\lim\limits_{h \to 0} \frac{f(h)-f(0)}{h-0}$ can't exist by unicity of a limit. Consequently $f$ is nowhere differentiable for $a=0$.
And for $a \neq 0$, we have $f(0) = 0$ and $f(a +\frac{1}{a})= a +\frac{1}{a}$.
According to a similar argument than the one used for continuity, $f$ is differentiable at $0$ if and only if$f_1^\prime(0)=f_2^\prime(0)$. And we have $f_1^\prime(0)=1$ , while $f_2^\prime(0)=-a$. $f$ is differentiable at $0$ if and only if $a=-1$.
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$$2a^2-a+1=0$$ which has no real solution.
Conclusion
If $a=0$, $f$ is only continuous at $0$ and is nowhere differentiable.
If $a = -1$, $ f$ is continuous at $0$ and $-2$ and differentiable only at $0$.
If $a \notin \{0,-1\}$, $ f$ is continuous at $0$ and $a +\frac{1}{a}$ and is nowhere differentiable.

A: $\forall x \in \mathbb{Q} \forall \epsilon >0 \exists y \notin \mathbb{Q}: |x-y|<\epsilon $ thats why $f(x)$ will be continuous only when $x=ax(x-1)$.
$$x_1=0, x_2=\frac{1}{a}+1$$
it means that $lim_{x \rightarrow 0}f(x)=0=f(0)$ and $lim_{x \rightarrow \frac{1}{a}+1}f(x)=\frac{1}{a}+1=f(\frac{1}{a}+1)$

A: The answer depends on the value of $a$. If $a\ne 0$ the function  $$f(x) = \begin{cases}x & x  \in \mathbb{Q}  \\ ax(x-1) & x  \not \in \mathbb{Q} \end{cases}$$is continuous at $x=0$ and at $x=1+\frac {1}{a} $       where the two definitions result in the same value. For $a=0$ the only point of continuity is $ x=0$.
We know that a function which is not continuous at a point does not have a derivative at that point.
If $a=0$ we look at the only point of continuity of $f(x)$ namely $x=0$. The function does not have a derivative at $x=0$ because the difference quotient for rationals will approach $1$ while for irrationals it will approach $0$.
For $a\ne 0$, we have two points to look at .
For $x=0$, the  difference quotient approaches $1$ for rationals and approaches $a(2x-1)$ for irrationals. The results match only if $a=-1.$
For $x=1+\frac {1}{a}$, the  difference quotient approaches $1$ for rationals and approaches $a(2x-1)$ for irrationals. The results match again if $a=-1$ which takes us back to $x=0.$

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The Stronger Together: Early Learning opportunity provides grants to help local libraries strengthen their roles as early learning community hubs and improve or expand early learning programs and services in their communities. The purpose of these grants is to support the critical role that libraries play in providing much needed wraparound services and resources, ensuring equitable access to opportunity for young children and their families.
We are seeking projects that are guided by the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging in all aspects of project planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Funded projects can include the purchase of supplies, technology, materials, and services that connect children, families, and caregivers with the resources they need to thrive. Proposals to help libraries develop or enhance early learning community hubs, providing wraparound services for early learners and their families as well as physical space for community partners to engage with the community and deliver tailored programming are especially encouraged. Proposals for program support for existing programs and services aimed at early learners that are underutilized, and other resources such as collections and equipment will also be considered.
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Organizations must be located in California.
A match is required for these grants, which may be cash, in-kind, or a combination of both. The match will be based on your library's Local Income Per Capita (LIPC) level, which is derived from California Public Libraries Survey data. For LIPC Level 1, a 20% match will be required; LIPC Level 2, 25%; and LIPC Level 3, 30%.
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