Johnny Makkar is intent on buying a digital book reader. Yet he won’t consider any of the more than two dozen new devices introduced in recent months, many of them at the just-completed Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. For Makkar, a resident of Fairlawn, N.J., with a background in marketing, only two manufacturers will do, and one has yet to [...]
Read more >>>Though Stephen Toulmin, who has died aged 87, was initially famous as one of the leading proponents of the “good reasons” approach in ethics, and went on to write about reasoning, science, philosophy of science and the history of ideas, he was ultimately better known in the US field of communication, and in computer science, than in philosophy. The Uses of Argument [...]
Read more >>>One hundred years ago this week, a young German physicist stood in the gym of the Andra school in the Austrian city of Salzburg explaining his groundbreaking work to the audience of his peers.
As he spoke, many of the 1,300 participants in the 81st Meeting of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians were baffled [...]
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