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Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques
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Mar 03, 2009 |
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Metaphors cannot be taught, asserted the great philosopher Aristotle. "It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others." But a computer scientist and literary historian say he's wrong.
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Experimental philosophy movement explores real-life dilemmas
Jul 02, 2008 |
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Imagine a business executive who thinks: "I know that this new policy will harm the environment, but I don't care at all about that – I just want to increase profits." Is the business executive harming the environment intentionally? ...
The Genesis of Relativity
Feb 22, 2007 |
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New insights into the premises, assumptions and preconditions that underlie Einstein’s Relativity Theory, as well as the intellectual, and cultural contexts that shaped it, are the subject of a comprehensive study published ...
Faking it for physicists
Jul 06, 2006 |
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In a "faking it" style test, a social scientist has fooled a panel of physicist judges into believing he was an experienced gravitational wave physicist.
Early Catholic leaders failed Aborigines
Nov 26, 2007 |
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Australia's early Catholic bishops failed Aborigines by paying lip service to their plight and not providing enough resources to help them, according to a new historical study.
Professor to explore global emergence of engineering
Jan 24, 2006 |
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Gary Downey, a professor science and technology in society in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to research the emergence of the engineering ...
New transcription reveals Newton's rare 'theory of everything'
Dec 14, 2006 |
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A new transcription of Isaac Newton's "theory of everything," providing rare insight into the scientist's views on nearly all known natural phenomena, is now available online to scholars around the world, thanks to an Indiana ...
Teaching Biology Means Teaching Evolution
Dec 11, 2006 |
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Evolution is a complex topic for any science teacher, given the misconceptions that some students bring to the classroom and the gaps that can occur in teacher preparation. In Investigating Evolutionary Biology in the La ...
Pitt Professor's Theory of Evolution Gets Boost From Cell Research
Jan 27, 2006 |
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An article by University of Pittsburgh Professor of Anthropology Jeffrey H. Schwartz and University of Salerno Professor of Biochemistry Bruno Maresca, to be published Jan. 30 in the New Anatomist journal, shows that the em ...
National ads urged enthusiastic consumers to visit copper mines
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Today's tourists may stop by the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Mont., to see how large-scale mining resulted in a Superfund site, but Americans in the 1950s had different reasons for visiting the mine, says Montana State University ...
Unpublished Papers Reveal Lesser-known, but Significant Research of Sir Issac Newton
Sep 11, 2006 |
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Known primarily for his foundational work in math and physics, Sir Issac Newton actually spent more time on research in alchemy, as well as its interrelationships with science, history and religion, and its ...
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