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科學與技術

科學與技術

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...

2011-3-29
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沃爾特·唐威
10 分鐘
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..

2011-3-24
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小愛德華·德里斯科爾
10 分鐘
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

2011-3-24
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Lou Villadsen
10 分鐘
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

2011-3-18
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泰勒·迪納曼
8 分鐘
TNI對邁克爾·謝默的採訪

2011-3-17
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愛德華·哈金斯
10 分鐘
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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愛德華·哈金斯
9 分
Review of "Bioshock"

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

2011-1-28
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派翠克·斯蒂芬斯
10 分鐘
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...

2011-1-28
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8 分鐘
自由意志與決定論

我們有自由意志是不言而喻的。你選擇寫這個問題。事實上,最根本的是,你選擇考慮它。這是

2011-1-25
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2 分鐘
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 分
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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大衛·羅斯
10 分鐘
汽車出行與自由

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...

2010-10-18
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Sam Kazman
10 分鐘
How Individualist is Human Nature?

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

2010-9-8
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8 分鐘
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

2010-9-7
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10 分鐘
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

2010-8-29
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Ralph Kinney Bennett
5 分鐘
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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基拉·紐曼
5 分鐘
Better Never?

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 分鐘
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 分鐘
半機械人變奏曲

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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基拉·紐曼
9 分
斯蒂芬霍金害怕外星人嗎?

April 30, 2010 -- 史蒂芬·霍金對人類發出警告。首先,著名的理論物理學家認為

五月 5, 2010
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布蘭得利·杜塞
5 分鐘

我們提倡開放的客觀主義:理性、成就、個人主義和自由的哲學。