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...
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August 12, 2008
“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
Muhammad Ali was the most famous man in the world during the second half of the twentieth century; Albert Einstein was...
March 24, 2008
The name René Descartes will forever be entwined with our hopes and fears about the technological project. While...
March 24, 2008
In a televised speech on July 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy warned Americans that relations between the United...
March 24, 2008
In August 2007, the actor Owen Wilson was hospitalized after apparently trying to take his own life. The media coverage...
September 19, 2007
The Space Age began in earnest fifty years ago, with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957....
September 19, 2007
Not long ago, the notion of any entity other than a government putting a payload — let alone a human being — into...
September 19, 2007
One of the more exasperating characteristics of the biblical God is that He, inferior to greater souls in this regard,...
September 19, 2007
When Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was first published seventy-five years ago, the critical reception was...