People of Note
Sara Burke – Irish Apartheid: Healthcare Inequality in Ireland
I think I’ve just found the book I’ll be taking with me for my two weeks off. Sara Burke is a freelance journalist, broadcaster and health policy analyst. She is currently doing a PhD in health policy in Trinity College Dublin, and has a weekly radio slot on RTÉ’s Drivetime programme. Sara authored Irish Apartheid – Healthcare... »
Lest we forget.
photo credit: la picarita Michael Jackson is gone and I’m not sad. I guess that makes me as much of a freak as he was, given the massive media explosion of coverage on a wretch of a man whose megalomania apparently knew no bounds. I will try my best in the coming days and weeks... »
Why We Believe in Gods
Andy Thomson gives his talk titled ‘Why We Believe in Gods‘ at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia. J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., M.D. is Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI), Staff Psychiatrist at the University of Virginia Student Health Services and in private practice. In this... »
Origins Symposium > Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence Krauss is a physicist and cosmologist, but is best known as a popularizer of science. In this lecture, the finale of the Origins Symposium, he describes the progress made to date in Cosmology – including the amazing fact that we can now put a very accurate date on the age of the Universe! 13.7 billion... »
Is There a Higgs Particle?
A Talk With Brian Cox (Culled from edge.org) INTRODUCTION By Martin Rees As an astronomer I’m lucky to work in a subject where there is already public interest, and where it’s not too difficult to convey the key ideas and new discoveries in a non-technical and accessible way. It’s far harder to make particle physics accessible and interesting.... »
Origins Symposium > Brian Greene
Origins Symposium > Brian Greene. Lawrence Krauss in conversation with Brian Greene , as part of the Origins Symposium 2009 , discuss the current state of physics especially string theory, the LHC, differences between physicists and where next for cosmology and physics. »
TEN PRINCIPLES FOR A BLACK-SWAN-ROBUST WORLD
In his “Ten Principles for a Black Swan-robust world”, NassimNicholas Taleb is on the ramparts assuming an activist role in urging us “to move voluntarily into Capitalism 2.0 by helping what needs to be broken break on its own, converting debt into equity, marginalising the economics and business school establishments, shutting down the ‘Nobel’... »
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