August 13, 2008
The World Made New
The term “metaverse” in reference to multiplayer virtual worlds was first coined in Neal Stephenson’s...
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August 13, 2008
The Brat Pack of Quantum Mechanics
Who can ever tire of learning about the great discoveries in physics during the first forty years of the twentieth...
August 13, 2008
The Prudence of Neuroscience
René Descartes opens his Discourse on Method with the ironic joke that “good sense is the best distributed thing in...
August 12, 2008
Is Stupid Making Us Google?
“Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or...
May 23, 2008
May 23, 2008
Einstein’s Quest for Truth
Muhammad Ali was the most famous man in the world during the second half of the twentieth century; Albert Einstein was...
March 24, 2008
Masters and Possessors of Nature
The name René Descartes will forever be entwined with our hopes and fears about the technological project. While...
March 24, 2008
Shop Till You Drop?
In a televised speech on July 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy warned Americans that relations between the United...
March 24, 2008
Sick and Famous
In August 2007, the actor Owen Wilson was hospitalized after apparently trying to take his own life. The media coverage...
September 19, 2007
Launching the Space Age
The Space Age began in earnest fifty years ago, with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957....