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Book Review: A Mighty Fountain

What do we know about what makes creative genius possible? Can we say anything new about the awesome creative ability of an Aristotle...

29 de marzo de 2011
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Walter Donway
10 minutos
How Emerging Technologies Allow Anyone to Create His Own Culture

Through television, newspapers, radio, and advertising, the mass culture of the twentieth century created easily understandable points of..

24 de marzo de 2011
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Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.
10 minutos
Ziad Abdelnour in the news

September 2007 -- The May/June 2007 issue of Technology Review (MIT’s showcase of student, faculty, and alumni genius) is called “The Design

24 de marzo de 2011
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Lou Villadsen
10 minutos
Strike from Space: Seizing the Ultimate High Ground

July/August 2007 -- In 1989, a solar flare helped trigger the shutdown of a good portion of eastern Canada’s electrical grid. In May 1998

18 mar 2011
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Taylor Dinerman
8 minutos
Entrevista del TNI con Michael Shermer

17 de marzo de 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 minutos
America's Pioneer Spirit: Government vs. New Frontiers

In his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in tandem with the script for the epic movie of the same name, Arthur....

Feb 10, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
9 minutos
Crítica de "Bioshock"

I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat ..

28 de enero de 2011
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Patrick Stephens
10 minutos
James D. Watson: Another Gadfly Swatted

The last chapter of James Watson’s story began as he was preparing to launch a book tour through Britain to promote his latest and...

28 de enero de 2011
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8 minutos
Libre albedrío y determinismo

Que tenemos libre albedrío es evidente. Tú elegiste escribir esta pregunta. Es más, fundamentalmente, has elegido pensar en ello. Esto es

25 de enero de 2011
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2 minutos
The Embattled Life of Moreau de Maupertuis

Those who love the Enlightenment spirit are sometimes tempted to believe that it engendered fraternity among the age's disciples. And to an

Oct 22, 2010
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9 minutos
The Math Wars

May 2001 -- When I was a boy in school, my father told me, often, that mathematics was the most important subject. "And the thing in

Oct 19, 2010
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David Ross
10 minutos
Automovilismo y libertad

A century and a half ago, the legal scholar Sir Henry Maine observed that the evolution of human society was a movement from a society of...

18 de octubre de 2010
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Sam Kazman
10 minutos
¿Hasta qué punto es individualista la naturaleza humana?

You’re right to point out the contrast I make between capitalism and morality.” So said New York Times columnist John Tierney in response...

8 de septiembre de 2010
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8 minutos
What Shall We Do With a Bumptious Sailor?

Venter is the biochemist (and daredevil yachtsman) who directed a small corporate rival of the official U.S.-U.K. genome-sequencing team and

Sep 7, 2010
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10 minutos
The Wright Stuff

December 2003 -- Somewhere you've probably seen the old photos. The two men are wearing bowler hats and sack suits and celluloid collars

29 de agosto de 2010
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Ralph Kinney Bennett
5 minutos
The Future of Cancer Research

According to the American Cancer Society, an expected 1.5 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, and around

Aug 25, 2010
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Kira Newman
5 minutos
¿Mejor nunca?

I would like to start by asking you all to secure yourselves in your seats. If you have any pointy objects, make sure they are facing away

Aug 22, 2010
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Sam Kazman
10 minutos
The Victorian Atlas

January, 2004 -- Inventors are of two sorts. The first says: "Here is a principle. How can it be used?" The second says: "Here is a problem

Aug 12, 2010
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3 minutos
Las variaciones Cyborg

The piano prelude begins insistently, with a loud, rhythmic figure repeated immediately at a lower register. The music winds up and down

Jul 1, 2010
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Kira Newman
9 minutos
¿Teme Stephen Hawking a los extraterrestres?

30 de abril de 2010 -- Stephen Hawking tiene una advertencia para la humanidad. En primer lugar, el célebre físico teórico cree que hay

5 de mayo de 2010
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Bradley Doucet
5 minutos

Wir fördern den offenen Objektivismus: die Philosophie der Vernunft, der Leistung, des Individualismus und der Freiheit.