Jim Baggott
Person on 4 sites
British science writer; author of more than ten books on physics, philosophy and the history of science, including Atomic, The Quantum Story and Quantum Drama…
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Reporting on Russian-language restrictions in Ukraine should mention Stalin's Russification of the Soviet satellite states. (opens korrents.com)
“Those concerned might first want to study the programme of ‘Russification’ of the Soviet satellite states initiated by Joseph Stalin which, oddly, the BBC fails to mention in this report.”
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The standard model of big bang cosmology is deeply unsatisfactory, because nobody knows what dark matter or dark energy are. (opens korrents.com)
“On the other hand, the theory is deeply unsatisfactory. There are nagging doubts about cosmic inflation. And we have no real idea what dark matter or dark energy are, which means that we cannot properly explain about…”
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Teaching children to tell truth from falsehood also requires teaching some philosophy of truth. (opens korrents.com)
“if you’re going to teach kids how to distinguish truth from falsity, you need also to teach something of the philosophy of truth.”
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Reporting on Russian-language restrictions in Ukraine should mention Stalin's Russification of the Soviet satellite states. (opens korrents.com)
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4 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Construction of Social Reality (opens rcmnd.app)
“What John Searle does in The Construction of Social Reality is he really brings home—for me at least—the very fragile nature of what we tend to take for granted as reality as human beings living these very complicated…”
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The Matrix (opens rcmnd.app)
“That’s why my second choice is the screenplay for The Matrix (2001).”
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The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics (opens rcmnd.app)
“Then you go to Max Jammer’s The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics and you start to appreciate that there’s more to quantum mechanics than scientific analysis and rationality.”
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The Construction of Social Reality (opens rcmnd.app)