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Michael Specter
Michael Specter is a staff writer for the New Yorker. His new book, Denialism, asks why we have increasingly begun to fear scientific advances instead of embracing them.
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Eric Sanderson
400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta’s fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife – accurate down to the block – when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.
Watch Eric Sanderson on Ted.
How much would you pay for the Universe?
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on the importance of NASA for the United States and the world.
Watch the video here.
Introducing
Aubrey de Grey
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta teams with anti-aging experts Aubrey de Grey and Dan Buettner to bring you an in-depth discussion on the search for immortality. Watch it here.
Arcademi
Art Lawyer
Man must rise above the Earth – to the top of the atmosphere and beyond – for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.
Socrates, the founder of Western philosophy
Philosophy
Ayn Rand
When I say “capitalism”, I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism – with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.
Philosophy
Thursday, 19.08.2010
When I say “capitalism”, I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism – with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.
Philosophy
Ayn Rand
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Philosophy
Thursday, 19.08.2010
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.
Philosophy
Wednesday, 09.06.2010
The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catayst for research and discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality. Further they seek to stimulate new thinking about freedom and free enterprise, character development, and exceptional cognitive talent and genius.
Supporting science and investing in the big questions is their mission.We are happy to introduce to you their complimentary booklets which are well-produced and solidly designed as well.
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Philosophy
Robert A Heinlein
Theology is an excuse for grown men to spend their lives trying to convince themselves, and others, that ridiculous fairy tales are true. Some of them get paid for it.
In the words of Robert A Heinlein, "Theology ... is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there".
Read full article on Guardian.
Philosophy
Will Money Solve Africa’s Development Problems?
This is the second in a series of conversations about the "Big Questions" the John Templeton Foundation is conducting among leading scientists and scholars.
Download PDFs on the John Templeton Foundation site.
Philosophy
Does moral action depend on reasoning?
This is the sixth in a series of conversations among leading scientists, scholars, and public figures about the "Big Questions".
Download PDFs on the John Templeton Foundation site.
Philosophy
Richard Buckminster Fuller
I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing – a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the Universe.
Philosophy
Sunday, 23.05.2010
Richard Buckminster also known as “Bucky” Fuller published more than 30 books aiming to popularize themes such as "Spaceship Earth", ephemeralization, and synergetics. This American architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist was a frequent flier, often crossing time zones. He famously wore three watches; one for the current zone, one for the zone he had departed, and one for the zone he was going to.
Philosophy
Dieter Rams
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Philosophy
Socrates
There is no greater injury a man can inflict, than to banish another from divine philosophy.
Philosophy
Tuesday, 04.05.2010
Philosophy
Stefano Pilati
Actresses are fantastic, but they’re not models and it’s not easy. They have an attitude, but will never be the fashion attitude. To me, fashion photography is with a model; otherwise, it’s a portrait.
Philosophy
Monday, 03.05.2010
In 2000 Pilati joined Yves Saint Laurent to run the brand and is the appointed Yves Saint Laurent Creative Director since 2004.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence, and considered by some as part of one of the most well crafted, influential sentences in the history of the English language. These three aspects are listed among the "unalienable rights" or sovereign rights of man.
It is believed that this famous phrase is based on the writings of English philosopher John Locke.
Philosophy
Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Philosophy
Robert Grudin
Design is — or should be — joyous, inclusive and empowering, an erotic pragmatism which is fundamental to the survival of our humanity.
Philosophy
French Language Under Siege?
The end of French political power has brought the end of French.
Read full article on New York Times brought to us by David Lovely from Manchester.
Brought to us by David Lovely from Manchester.
www.francophonie.org
Philosophy
Contradictions
do not exist.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Philosophy
Friday, 23.04.2010
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Who is Ayn Rand?
Philosophy
David Callow
The United States is the consequence of applied individualism, morality and justice.
Philosophy
Friday, 23.04.2010
For The Qompendium Questionnaire Session session two entities are invited to take part. The first interviewee recommends the next / following interviewee and prepares an art work for him/her to alter. Read David Callow's questionnaire here.
Philosophy
Monday, 19.04.2010
Thomas Paine was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Complete works of Thomas Paine
Philosophy
Milton Friedman
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Philosophy
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Philosophy
Monday, 19.04.2010
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German scientist, satirist and Anglophile. Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein and even Schopenhauer admired Lichtenberg for he has Sudelbücher which contained his collection of aphorism. A crater on the Moon is named Lichtenberg in his honor.
Philosophy
Voltaire
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Philosophy
Sunday, 18.04.2010
François-Marie Aroue, known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade.
Philosophy
Thomas Paine
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Philosophy
Sunday, 18.04.2010
Thomas Paine was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
Philosophy
Ayn Rand
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Philosophy
Milton Friedman
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Philosophy
Sunday, 18.04.2010
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Who is Milton Friedman?
Philosophy
Ayn Rand
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Philosophy
Sunday, 18.04.2010
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
The Philosophy of Ayn Rand.
Philosophy
Ayn Rand
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Philosophy
Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Salvador Dalí
I try to create fantastic things, magical things, dreamlike things. The world needs more fantasy. Our civilization is too mechanical. We can make the fantastic real, and then it is more real than that which actually exists.
Philosophy
Thursday, 08.04.2010
Salvador Dalí, in Times-Dispatch, 24 November 1940
(quoted in Dalí. The Centenary Retrospective, 2004)
Philosophy
William Lloyd Garrison
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter...
Philosophy
Thursday, 11.03.2010
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. Best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States.
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Philosophy
From the Analects of Confucius
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Philosophy
Friday, 05.03.2010
Confucius, literally "Master Kong", was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, whose teachings and philosophy have deeply influenced Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese thought and life.
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