The mockery of Science and the flight to outer space
Science and its mockery of the human drive for outer limits.
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10, 2017
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09, 2017
In AI we trust? (Olivia Solon, The Guardian)
AI becomes the deity, inspiring its believers with the idea of super-human intelligence.
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09, 2017
The Two Gardens
Do gardens display the course of time, or a timeless science?
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09, 2017
Coding is the new language requirement (Jean Dimeo, Inside Higher Ed)
Coding is the language required by our modern technological society.
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09, 2017
Internet Rx: do doctors and patients know how to read advice on-line? (Philippa Göranson, Pulse)
On-line medical advice tests doctors and patients in new ways.
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09, 2017
Our devices, our selves (Jean M. Twenge, The Atlantic)
How personal devices may undermine our personhood.
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08, 2017
Hearing what is simple amid the technological noise
The simple remains to be heard in a time of technology.
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08, 2017
In praise of polymaths (David Edmonds, BBC Magazine)
Why the broader knowledge possessed by polymaths is needed today more than ever.
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08, 2017
Literature and science
What literature and science have in common, and how they complement one another.
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08, 2017
The “Two Cultures” revisited (Roger Kimball, The New Criterion)
Reviewing the "two cultures" debate in light of modern science.