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...So quipped the late, great physicist Richard Feynman in the 1960s — and his words feel just as fresh today....
...It was a singular motif, inspired by the late artist Richard Smith, and, despite what it sounds, it looked elegant and wearable....
...Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year 2016, was an obvious choice as a soloist and delivered the goods handsomely in lyrical Dvořák and spirited Popper....
...The New York Times' Nathaniel Popper shines a light into a major bitcoin exchange - and it's not pretty....
...Former Cameron policy adviser Rohan Silva reminds us why Karl Popper was right; utopianism is the root of all evil, which is why we need to keep fighting to put curbs on the libertarian tech industry (and...
...The other finalists, each of which will receive £10,000, were: Losing the Signal, by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, who look at how BlackBerry went off course; Digital Gold, Nathaniel Popper’s examination...
...year’s six finalists were books about some aspect of technological disruption: Losing the Signal, by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, who look at how BlackBerry went off course; Digital Gold, Nathaniel Popper...
...Robots, by Martin Ford, which analyses the future of employment and automation; Losing the Signal, by Jacque McNish and Sean Silcoff, who look at how BlackBerry went off course; Digital Gold, Nathaniel Popper...
...The 15 titles include Ashlee Vance’s Elon Musk, a biography of the charismatic entrepreneur behind the Tesla electric car, Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper, on the development of the virtual currency bitcoin...
...Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin, by Nathaniel Popper, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Harper, RRP$27.99 This timely first draft of the history of a new cryptocurrency provides as reliable a guide to the rise...
...John Gray made us read Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlin and it scared the bejesus out of me because I realised that cleverer people than I’ll ever be had thought the same and it had always and everywhere led...
...Wittgenstein, it seems, took up a hot poker and demanded Popper furnish an example of a moral rule. Popper claimed to have replied: “Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers.”...
...Lex: Rich women If women’s pay reflects national values, America must be a nation of litigious pill poppers, notes Lex, citing data showing that the two most lucrative female professions in the US are...
...So signing up electro-popper La Roux as profile-raising for his second album feels a bit superfluous, especially since her “Finally” is rather a quiet, introspective song....
...You know the kind of thing; those quilted nylon jackets in navy, mud brown or olive green with their neat corduroy collars and brass popper fastenings – jackets, that not so very long ago, were the sole...
...Similarly, the years since Snow’s lecture have seen an explosion in popular science writing: Richard Feynman and Stephen Hawking on cosmology and physics; Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould, and Matt Ridley...
...This concept he supposedly derived from the work of philosopher Karl Popper. How much credence is it prudent to give to this hypothesis?...
...The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein became a pioneer of modern scientific thinking, as did Ernst Mach, Karl Popper and other thinkers in or close to the “Vienna circle”....
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...Even the ne plus ultra of American public intellectuals, Richard Posner, senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago, former chief judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, declared...
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