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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. März 2011
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Walter Donway
10 Min.
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. März 2011
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Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.
10 Min.
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. März 2011
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Lou Villadsen
10 Min.
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. März 2011
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Taylor Dinerman
8 Min.
TNI's Interview mit Michael Shermer

17. März 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 Min.
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 Min.
Rückblick auf "Bioshock"

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

28. Januar 2011
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Patrick Stephens
10 Min.
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. Januar 2011
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8 Min.
Freier Wille und Determinismus

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

25. Januar 2011
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2 Min.
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 Min.
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 Min.
Auto-Mobilität und Freiheit

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. Oktober 2010
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Sam Kazman
10 Min.
Wie individualistisch ist die menschliche Natur?

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. September 2010
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8 Min.
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

7. September 2010
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10 Min.
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. August 2010
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Ralph Kinney Bennett
5 Min.
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 Min.
Besser nie?

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 Min.
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 Min.
Die Cyborg-Variationen

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 Min.
Hat Stephen Hawking Angst vor Außerirdischen?

30. April 2010 -- Stephen Hawking hat eine Warnung für die Menschheit. Zunächst einmal glaubt der berühmte theoretische Physiker, dass es

5. Mai 2010
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Bradley Doucet
5 Min.

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