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科學與技術

科學與技術

基礎學習指南:數學哲學

數學哲學是對數學概念和方法的哲學研究。它關注的是...

Apr 21, 2010
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大衛·羅斯
8 分鐘
When We Walked on the Moon

As a child, I was fascinated by astronomy and space, and I hoped to live to see the day when men would travel to the Moon. In 1969, I manage

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
5 分鐘
The Spiritual Significance of Mars

The news and the night sky are dominated by Mars. At a distance of only 34.6 million miles, the Red Planet is now closer to Earth than it...

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
山達基、癮獲和科學

Jett Travolta, the sixteen-year-old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died recently of what the autopsy found to be a seizure..

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
Why We Watch the Skies

The Astronomical League, the world's largest federation of amateur astronomers, has declared May 10th to be this year's Astro

2010-4-4
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愛德華·哈金斯
4 分鐘
Human Cloning is Good for All of Us

April 3, 2001 -- Last week, Congress began holding hearings on human cloning. Given the highly charged debate that human cloning is likely

Mar 31, 2010
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派翠克·斯蒂芬斯
3 分鐘
政府資助與科學進步

發明早已達到極限,我看不到進一步發展的希望......

2010-3-19
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馬利尼·科赫哈爾
3 分鐘
Destroying Embryos Is Not Immoral

April 3, 2001 -- Human life begins at conception. Biologically speaking, human life begins when a cell with 23 pairs of chromosomes capable

Mar 16, 2010
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派翠克·斯蒂芬斯
3 分鐘
Celebrating Apollo 11's Sense of Life

July 20, 2004--It has been three and a half decades now since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first of a dozen men to walk on the

Mar 16, 2010
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愛德華·哈金斯
3 分鐘
為什麼我們沒有回到月球?

四十年前的這個星期,1969年7月16日,美國東部時間上午9點32分,阿波羅11號從佛羅里達州甘迺迪航太中心發射升空。四個半...

2009-7-17
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布蘭得利·杜塞
4 分鐘
Mining Nature's Ultimate Resource

In 1972, just two years after the first Earth Day, a team of scholars from MIT published a 200-page book called The Limits to Growth. Using

Sep 1, 2008
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小羅伯特·布蘭得利
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軌道上的個人主義:高邊疆的道德

Today, we live “in the future”—the future that for decades had been depicted in science fiction, pursued by scientists and engineers, and...

Jul 1, 2007
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愛德華·哈金斯
10 分鐘
New Cult of Darkness

Since early men ignited the first fires in caves, the unleashing of energy for light, heat, cooking and every human need has been the....

Apr 2, 2007
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愛德華·哈金斯
4 分鐘
Is High Self-Esteem Bad for You?

For more than thirty years, promoting the development of higher self-esteem has been a major goal for clinical psychologists and educators..

Jul 21, 2003
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羅伯特·坎貝爾
10 分鐘
Mean Genes

BOOK REVIEW: Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts. By Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan. (New York: Perseus Book

Oct 14, 2001
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D. 莫斯科維茨
10 分鐘
Objectivist Ethics in an Information-Age Economy

Some years ago, I wrote that we had reached a moment in history when self-esteem, which had always been a supremely important psychological

Feb 1, 2001
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納撒尼爾·布蘭登
10 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。