Tuesday, November 11, 2003
The New York Times celebrates 25 years of science reporting with an IBM sponsored, enumerated list of "25 of the most provocative questions facing science."
- Kenneth Chang wonders Do Paranormal Phenomena Exist? Although he leads off with bent spoons, he ends up talking about studies into the effectiveness of prayer, which leads to...
- George Johnson incessantly asking Can Science Prove the Existence of God? He sees all science ultimately leading to one phenomenon, the Big Bang, after which all questions become religion. So...
 - Dennis Overbye ponders What Happened Before the Big Bang? Quoting Andrei Linde and assigning the cosmological consequences of uncertainty (Gong Bing Xin not withstanding) to John Wheeler, it all boils down to the classic String Theory vs
Grand Unification, I mean quantum gravity, bout. Just for fun, ...
- Andrew Pollack comes right out and asks Can Drugs Make Us Happier, Smarter? I'll drink to that! Pretty soon ...
- Overbye's other question, Where are Those Aliens? makes sense. You need to be smart and happy to boldly go there though. They wrap it all up with a big group hug in ...
- William Broad and James Glanz' Does Science Matter? I don't know if it does or not, because that one's pretty long and kinda boring - I didn't make it to the end.
Let me know how it turns out, K?
Book shots 9-16.
(Warning, HUGE file!)
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