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The Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox: There should be 100,000 intelligent alien civilizations in our galaxy — so why haven't we found any of them?
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Einstein’s Philosophy of Science
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20+ min read · 2019-09-13 · First published Wed Feb 11, 2004; substantive revision Fri Sep 13, 2019 Late in 1944, Albert Einstein received a letter from Robert Thornton, a young African-American philosopher of science who had…
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Bertrand Russell
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2020-05-09 · Bertrand Russell | Footnotes to Plato | Andrew David Irvine considers Bertrand Russell’s conception of the truly liberal thinker
