The philosophy of mathematics is the philosophical study of the concepts and methods of mathematics. It is concerned with the nature of....
As a child, I was fascinated by astronomy and space, and I hoped to live to see the day when men would travel to the Moon. In 1969, I manage
The news and the night sky are dominated by Mars. At a distance of only 34.6 million miles, the Red Planet is now closer to Earth than it...
Jett Travolta, the sixteen-year-old son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston, died recently of what the autopsy found to be a seizure..
The Astronomical League, the world's largest federation of amateur astronomers, has declared May 10th to be this year's Astro
April 3, 2001 -- Last week, Congress began holding hearings on human cloning. Given the highly charged debate that human cloning is likely
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.....
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BOOK REVIEW: Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts. By Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan. (New York: Perseus Book
Some years ago, I wrote that we had reached a moment in history when self-esteem, which had always been a supremely important psychological
