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Cover of Brave New World's  1st edition Just as a utopia is a literary work that describes a perfect society, from the point of vi...

The standard cosmological model, prevailing since 1998, is called L CDM and is based on the following statements: The universe began w...

John McCarthy In a famous summer course that took place at Dartmouth College in 1956, the term artificial intelligence was applied for...

Pitirim Sorokin On the question of violence and evil in society there are three fundamental theories: Every human being is a bat...

In an earlier post I mentioned that many of scientific news published today are not really new discoveries, but future previsions. What ...

Chernobyl disaster From time to time catastrophes occur, usually unforeseen, sometimes causing tremendous damage. Let's look at so...

2009 World Economic Forum Meeting Politicians and economists often tell us that job creation requires a GNP growth above 2 or 3%. Acc...