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. März 2011
|
10 Min.
Junte-se à nossa newsletter!
X
What do we know about what makes creative genius possible? Can we say anything new about the awesome creative ability of an Aristotle...
Through television, newspapers, radio, and advertising, the mass culture of the twentieth century created easily understandable points of..
September 2007 -- The May/June 2007 issue of Technology Review (MIT’s showcase of student, faculty, and alumni genius) is called “The Design
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
In his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in tandem with the script for the epic movie of the same name, Arthur....
I am Andrew Ryan, and I’m here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat ..
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...
Dass wir einen freien Willen haben, ist eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Sie haben sich entschieden, diese Frage zu schreiben. Und vor allem haben Sie sich entschieden, darüber nachzudenken. Dies ist
Those who love the Enlightenment spirit are sometimes tempted to believe that it engendered fraternity among the age's disciples. And to an
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
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...
You’re right to point out the contrast I make between capitalism and morality.” So said New York Times columnist John Tierney in response...
Venter is the biochemist (and daredevil yachtsman) who directed a small corporate rival of the official U.S.-U.K. genome-sequencing team and
December 2003 -- Somewhere you've probably seen the old photos. The two men are wearing bowler hats and sack suits and celluloid collars
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
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
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
The piano prelude begins insistently, with a loud, rhythmic figure repeated immediately at a lower register. The music winds up and down
30. April 2010 -- Stephen Hawking hat eine Warnung für die Menschheit. Zunächst einmal glaubt der berühmte theoretische Physiker, dass es