Topic: Bertrand Russell
When it comes to the regulation of raves, two values collide: the imperative to keep people safe vs. the benefits of allowing individuals the...
It is important to know the nature and strength of the pillars on which scientific knowledge is based, writes WILLIAM REVILLE . . IRISH AND UK...
It's a truism of journalism that you always try to emphasize the positive. I subscribe to this myself. But occasionally the time comes when, in the...
0 . Today is Sunday, Sept. 4, the 247th day of 2011. There are 118 days left in the year.. . Today's...
Retiring U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates didn't even try to hide his frustration. In his Brussels farewell address this week, Gates used words...
So, you have been to a conference, spotted a supposed gap in the travel industry and now you want to create a startup to fill that gap. Great...
I was sort of raised to have a not too positive opinion of Wall Street,” Patrick Byrne, the president and CEO of Overstock. com, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSTK...
People of faith will always have a hard time understanding why a fellow human being would choose to be either Atheist or Agnostic. That's OK. But...
The application of the notion of equivalence to infinite sets was first systematically explored by Cantor. With N defined as the set of natural numbers, Cantor's initial significant finding was that the set of all rational numbers is equivalent to N ...
In naive set theory, a set is a collection of objects (called members or elements) that is regarded as being a single object. If both A B and B A, then A and B have exactly the same members. For example, suppose ...
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Bertrand Russell on God (1959)
Nobel Prize-winning philosopher/mathematician, Bertrand Russell, explains why he does ...2009-12-28 -
Bertrand Russell 1/3
BBC 1959 interview. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell -- philosopher, historian, logician ...2008-05-30 -
Bertrand Russell - to our descendants
Short extract from the BBC's Face to Face interview ...2009-09-27
