Vardis Vardinoyannis, Greek Tycoon With Ties to the Kennedys, Dies at 90
He built his family’s oil-refining operation into one of the largest companies in the country, and then used his wealth to ...
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What Happened to the Stratification View of Nature?
Stratification theories layer the natural world from the inanimate to the animate to the animal to the human. They used to be ...
Monkeys WOULDN'T type the complete works of Shakespeare if given until the end of time: Scientists reveal the reason why (although they might type 'banana')
A pair of Australian mathematicians have cast fresh doubt over the famous scientific proverb that if given an infinite amount ...
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Values, ethics: what’s the difference?
In response to a decision by Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, not to endorse a Presidential candidate, an ...
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The Philosophy Speaker Series: Is Aristotle All Wrong?
Held as a part of the Villanova Philosophy Department’s Speaker’s Series, Villanova Ph.D. alumnus Michael Shaw (‘06) returned ...
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Chimpanzees Could Never Randomly Type the Complete Works of Shakespeare, Study Finds
While testing the "infinite monkey theorem," mathematicians found that the odds of a chimpanzee typing even a short phrase ...
Live Science27d
32 physics experiments that changed the world
This set the stage for the wartime work ... corrected Aristotle's false claim by showing that two objects with different masses fall at exactly the same rate. Some claim Galileo's famous ...
The Hollywood Reporter23d
‘Celebrity Substitute’ Puts A-Listers Like Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh on the Spot at NYC Public Schools
(Or rather the misquotation of Aristotle.) But does it work the other way ... doing the most interesting thing in the world, with a famous person, but they can be more interested in knowing ...
The Conversation21d
Outback noir and Gothic creepiness: the uncanny is never far away in Martine Kropkowski’s Everywhere We Look
Jen Webb does not work for, consult ... Many offer a variant of Aristotle’s theory of tragedy, which crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers explains at some length and with satisfying clarity.