Showing results for: Freeman Dyson book
21st - Will the Net spawn intelligent life?
George Dyson's 'Darwin Among the Machines' traces a strange new scenario for artificial intelligence -- one in which the Internet gets smarter as people get dumber.
10/23/1997 23:00 UTC
Freeman Dyson, frog prince of physics
The renowned physicist brings conscience and compassion to his books, which interweave scientific explanation and humanism.
10/09/1999 20:00 UTC
So you want to build a Death Star? Here’s how to get started
A space plasma physicist figured out what you might need to actually build the space craft. Hint: nuclear fusion
12/18/2016 15:58 UTC
Debunking Charles Krauthammer's climate lies: A drinking game
The Washington Post pundit got his recent column very, very wrong
02/26/2014 01:45 UTC
"You can't coddle white brothers and sisters": The fiery racial gospel of Michael Eric Dyson
In the age of Trump, preacher Michael Eric Dyson challenges white America: "Stop being white, and just be human"
01/29/2017 19:00 UTC
"An angry black man scares the heck out of many people": Michael Eric Dyson explains the right's racism and Obama hatred to Stephen Colbert
“You can have critical viewpoints about the president," Dyson began, but this is something different...
02/04/2016 16:01 UTC
Rough waters
Preacher and professor Michael Eric Dyson attacks America's reaction to Katrina as racist, ignorant and inept. But his rushed book is little more than a soggy rehash.
01/17/2006 16:00 UTC
The career assassination of Cornel West: A messy intellectual divorce reveals layers of broken heart -- and to what end?
Leading black philosophers fall out in print while young activists struggle to keep #BlackLivesMatter alive
04/21/2015 03:00 UTC
Our rosy future, according to Freeman Dyson
Climate change is nothing to worry about, says the eminent physicist. Let's celebrate genetic engineering and our ability to design a new world of plants and creatures.
09/29/2007 16:00 UTC
Building better humans
The sci-fi possibilities of genetic tampering may soon become real. And there's no law against them.
06/27/2000 23:00 UTC
Red team-blue team? Debating climate science should not be a cage match
Scott Pruit's climate change debate ignores the scientific research behind the phenomenon
08/21/2017 02:30 UTC
Cancel culture is emulated from “an ethic of white supremacy,” says Jay-Z scholar
Author Michael Eric Dyson discusses "Jay-Z: Made in America," the artist's lyrical genius, and social change
12/07/2019 18:00 UTC
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