2016
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1 day ago · Learn about the life and achievements of Stephen Hawking, a renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist who had a motor neurone disease. Find out his family background, marriages, children, and honors.
4 days ago · Stephen Hawking In 'Brief Answers to the Big Questions', finished by his family after his death, the celebrated scientist offers answers to the questions he was most frequently asked during his lifetime.
1 day ago · Others, like physicist Stephen Hawking, [67] object that whether machines can achieve a true intelligence or merely something similar to intelligence is irrelevant if the net result is the same. Psychologist Steven Pinker stated in 2008: "There is not the slightest reason to believe in a coming singularity.
3 days ago · They have two children, Maya (b. 1998) and Levon (b. 2002). [ 186 ] [ 187 ] The couple separated in 2003 amid allegations of Hawke's infidelity, [ 188 ] and filed for divorce the following year. [ 14 ]
5 days ago · The renowned physicist never placed his faith in combustion engines, instead predicting something entirely different: the detonation engine. Now, a team of engineers has developed the first working prototype, defying conventional scientific understanding.
1 day ago · Abstract. In 1904, the American historian Henry Adams (the grandson of John Quincy Adams and the great-grandson of John Adams) postulated his own kind of Moore’s Law to describe the rapid progress of the previous centuries. World coal output, he noted, had roughly “doubled every ten years between 1840 and 1900, in the form of utilized power ...
4 days ago · Today, science functions just like religion once did: We are given ideas, concepts, and facts that there is no way to verify—we are even told that we can’t verify them, and then we are reassured that it’s OK, we can trust “experts” to verify them for us. “Follow the science” means “follow our mandates.”.
