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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 mars 2011
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Walter Donway
10 minutes
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 mars 2011
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Edward B. Driscoll, Jr.
10 minutes
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 mars 2011
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Lou Villadsen
10 minutes
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 mars 2011
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Taylor Dinerman
8 minutes
Entretien de TNI avec Michael Shermer

17 mars 2011
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Edward Hudgins
10 minutes
L'esprit pionnier de l'Amérique : Gouvernement contre nouvelles frontières

Dans son roman 2001 : L'Odyssée de l'espace, écrit en tandem avec le scénario du film épique du même nom, Arthur.....

Feb 10, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
9 minutes
Critique de "Bioshock"

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

28 janvier 2011
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Patrick Stephens
10 minutes
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 janvier 2011
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8 minutes
Libre arbitre et déterminisme

Que nous ayons un libre arbitre est une évidence. Vous avez choisi d'écrire cette question. En effet, plus fondamentalement, vous avez choisi d'y réfléchir. Il s'agit d'une

25 janvier 2011
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2 minutes
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 minutes
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 minutes
Auto-mobilité et liberté

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 octobre 2010
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Sam Kazman
10 minutes
Dans quelle mesure la nature humaine est-elle individualiste ?

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 septembre 2010
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8 minutes
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 septembre 2010
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10 minutes
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 août 2010
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Ralph Kinney Bennett
5 minutes
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 minutes
Mieux vaut ne jamais ?

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 minutes
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 minutes
Les Variations 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 minutes
Stephen Hawking a-t-il peur des extraterrestres ?

30 avril 2010 -- Stephen Hawking a une mise en garde à adresser à l'humanité. Tout d'abord, le célèbre physicien théoricien estime qu'il y a une

5 mai 2010
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Bradley Doucet
5 minutes

Nous promouvons un objectivisme ouvert : la philosophie de la raison, de la réussite, de l'individualisme et de la liberté.