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Did the God of theism—omnipotent, wholly wise, and perfectly good—use Darwinian evolution to create species? Many contemporary thinkers see this “evolutionary theism” as wildly implausible. Why?...
Part 1 outlines the rapid worldwide use of mobile phone location data for contact tracing purposes. Part 2 concludes by examining how information privacy law protections apply now and how they should...
It’s a scenario that’s been on the very top of every cybersecurity official’s list of nightmares for a good while now: a cyberattack targeting critical IT infrastructures of a hospital, bringing...
Growing up on what is truly one of the most beautiful college campuses, Michigan State University, I was a pre-teen when the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. Most memorable was watching the CBS...
On 8 November 1977, President Jimmy Carter made a televised address to the US nation on the subject of energy. There was a crisis. Geopolitical tensions had resulted in an embargo on oil exports...
Imagine you’re a policymaker who wants to expand parental choice of private education. You’re not alone: sixty school voucher programs operate across the United States, offering hundreds of thousands...
Blogging about anything in the context of a global pandemic seems rather hopeless. It doesn’t help that I have chosen to blog on a book published (in its final edition) twenty-five years ago. Why on...
Should we forgo information privacy law protections for COVID-19 mobile phone contact tracing? Governments worldwide view contact tracing as a key tool to mitigate COVID-19 community transmission. Contact...
On 16 May 1960, Ted Maiman used silver coated mirrors, a ruby crystal and a photo flash gun to create the first working laser... Brian Culshaw, author of Introducing Photonics, 2020, explains what makes a laser so useful and introduces a number of the laser's vast applications.
A sustainable food revolution holds the key to ending the Sixth Extinction that is wiping out the world’s wild animals and plants. “Such is the insatiable power of the human jawbone that rethinking...
In January 1983, two junior members of Congress, John E. Porter – a moderate Republican from Illinois – and Tom Lantos – a liberal Democrat from California – launched a new forum dedicated to...
It was fifty years ago, on 10 April 1970, that Paul McCartney announced the break-up of the Beatles. That the end of the Beatles came so soon after the end of the 1960s helped to cement the association...
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