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What’s in a name … and what isn’t? John Maynard Keynes
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What’s in a name … and what isn’t? John Maynard Keynes
5 September 2011 – 18:20 | No Comment

David M. Brinley for The Washington Post
What does it mean to be Keynesian? It was the British economist John Maynard Keynes who declared that when, like today, economic growth grinds to a standstill and businesses …

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Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking
25 April 2010 – 09:21 | No Comment
Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking

Don’t talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking
Hawking has depicted what kinds of alien could be out there
by Jonathan Leake
THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. …

Ten ways space travel isn’t like television or the movies
13 January 2010 – 15:08 | No Comment
Ten ways space travel isn’t like television or the movies

10. There is no sound in space (rumbling engines, electronic beeping, laser blasts, etc.)

You’ve probably heard this fact stated before by your high school science teacher or some killjoy walking out of a movie theater: …