July 14, 2010

A Scientist Takes On Gravity

It’s hard to imagine a more fundamental and ubiquitous aspect of life on the Earth than gravity, from the moment you first took a step and fell on your diapered bottom to the slow terminal sagging of flesh and dreams. Read more…

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July 12, 2010

Not So Natural Selection

Nothing creates more misunderstanding of the results of scientific research than scientists’ use of metaphors. It is not only the general public that they confuse, but their own understanding of nature that is led astray. The most famous and influential example is Darwin’s invention of the term “natural selection,” which, he wrote in On the Origin [...]

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Thomas Edison’s Incredible Talking Machine

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‘To Kill a Mockingbird’: Endearing, enduring at 50 years

Thirty-three years after writing To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee, who hadn't been heard from for decades, wrote to her agent, "I am still alive, although very quiet." Today, Lee is still with us and still very quiet, deep in south Alabama. But in the rest of America, it's about to get a whole lot noisier. Read [...]

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Hayek: The Back Story

Last month, a funny thing happened on the way to the best-seller list. A 66-year-old treatise by a long-dead Austrian-born economist began flying off the shelves, following an hourlong endorsement from a right-wing television host better known for pumping political thrillers than for rocking political theory. Read more…
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July 10, 2010

Do you twitter?

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Keynes vs. Hayek: The Great Debate Continues

Newly discovered letters from two great economists shed light on today's discussion of economic 'stimulus.'
The debates raging over what policies will pull the U.S. economy out of its Great Recession replicate one that occurred during the Great Depression. Thanks to the efforts of Richard Ebeling, a professor of economics at Northwood University, we have [...]

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Dead for a Century, Twain Says What He Meant

Wry and cranky, droll and cantankerous — that’s the Mark Twain we think we know, thanks to reading “Huck Finn” and “Tom Sawyer” in high school. But in his unexpurgated autobiography, whose first volume is about to be published a century after his death, a very different Twain emerges, more pointedly political and willing to play the [...]

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July 5, 2010

Alan Turing, the man who taught computers to think

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