Officially, the Nobel Foundation and its prize committees never release the names of nominees prior to the formal announcement of winners late in each year. However, in most years, nominators themselves admit to the media the names of a few…
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One million people were there that day. They were camped out in tents on the beaches, strewn along the banks of the Indian River, gathered along highways US 1 and AIA. Every motel and private residence overflowed with visitors who…
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Are we alone in the universe? I’m pretty certain the answer is no just based on sheer probability. “They” are probably out there; the question is what form will “they” take when we finally find “them”. Since humanity has only…
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Ever since mankind became aware of the fact that there is an endless universe unfolding far beyond the small boundaries of our planet, one that is filled with numerous galaxies, solar systems and planets, there has always been the question;…
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Only a self-centered fool would believe that we are alone in the Universe. We live in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is only one of millions of galaxies in the observable Universe. The Milky Way contains about 200 billion stars according…
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On one of my many trips around the Washington D.C. area I was caught up in some even-more-busy-than-usual mid-afternoon traffic, and cursed the hundreds of construction projects on I-95. To my surprise, what seemed like an eternity later I came…
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It seems to me that artificial intelligence is a problem that ought to be set aside for a while. First we have to comprehend natural stupidity. If we are to be authentic (in Sartre’s sense), no matter how we characterize…
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Anything that could not be explained or identified down through the history of man has been laughed at by those who were not able to justify it in their minds. For instance when the first person stated that the world…
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There are many questions and points being raised on the issue of whether it is possible to be completly value free in sociology. Some people say that sociology should become a “scientific” subject at the heart of society. Is this…
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There are reasons why the whole scientific community would be completely overwhelmed by aspects of the Gulf oil Spill, since the disaster affects everything related to science and since science is being challenged in global and unprecedented ways. Even if the…
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