SpaceNews

New spheres of knowledge on the origin of life

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The New York Times

Everything, Everywhere, in One Big Book

In “All the Knowledge in the World,” Simon Garfield recounts the history of the encyclopedia — a tale of ambitious effort, numerous errors and lots of paper. By Jing Tsu When you purchase an ...
EurekAlert!

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to the four discoverers of the biological mechanisms behind protein function and their role in the origin of multiple diseases

The BBVA Foundation's award in Biology and Biomedicine has gone in its 16th edition to the scientists who unraveled the physiological mechanisms behind protein function, a key finding to elucidate the ...
Libcom

Notes on a Marxist history of empiricism

I've been reading George Novack’s Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View (1968). It's a flawed book, but it does contain a lot of useful material. Starts out by noting that “empiricism” has a ...
The Atlantic

Our Drifting Civilization

LORD Bryce, in his Presidential Address to the British Academy, made the following remarks: — ‘ Sometimes one feels as if modern states were growing too huge for the men to whom their fortunes are ...