[00:05.91]2005 [00:08.03]It is not easy to talk about the role of the mass media [00:11.05]in this overwhelmingly significant phase in European history. [00:15.56]History and news become confused, [00:18.08]and one's impressions tend to be a mixture...
[00:05.27]2004 [00:07.59]The relation of language and mind [00:09.70]has interested philosophers for many centuries. [00:13.13](1)The Greeks assumed [00:13.88]that the structure of language had some connection [00:16.61]with the process of thought,...
[00:03.49]2003 [00:06.71]Human beings in all times and places [00:09.33]think about their world and wonder at their place in it. [00:13.07]Humans are thoughtful and creative, [00:15.40]possessed of insatiable curiosity. [00:18.29](1)Furthermore, hum...
[00:02.88]2002 [00:06.01]Almost all our major problems involve human behavior, [00:10.04]and they cannot be solved by physical [00:12.15]and biological technology alone. [00:15.07]What is needed is a technology of behavior, [00:17.80]but we have bee...
[00:03.37]2001 [00:06.20]In less than 30 years' time the Star Trek holodeck [00:09.53]will be a reality. [00:11.13]Direct links between the brain's nervous system [00:13.66]and a computer will also create full sensory virtual environments, [00:18.31...
[00:03.38]2000 [00:06.20]Governments throughout the world [00:07.80]act on the assumption that the welfare [00:10.02]of their people depends largely [00:11.84]on the economic strength [00:13.41]and wealth of the community. [00:15.52](1)Under modem c...
[00:03.27]1999 [00:06.37](1)While there are almost as many definitions [00:08.58]of history as there are historians, [00:11.20]modern practice most closely conforms to one [00:14.13]that sees history as the attempt to recreate [00:17.35]and explain...
[00:03.38]1998 [00:06.71]They were, by far, [00:07.93]the largest and most distant objects [00:10.14]that scientists had ever detected: [00:12.36]a strip of enormous cosmic clouds [00:14.67]some 15 billion light-years from earth. [00:17.40](1)But ev...
[00:03.09]1997 [00:05.91]Do animals have rights? [00:08.23]This is how the question is usually put. [00:11.05]It sounds like a useful, ground-clearing way to start. [00:14.68](1)Actually, it isn't, because it assumes [00:17.10]that there is an agree...
[00:00.51]1996 [00:02.83]The differences in relative growth of various areas [00:06.04]of scientific research have several causes. [00:09.57](1)Some of these causes [00:10.88]are completely reasonable results of social needs. [00:14.41]Others are re...
