The Big Questions: In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex, Slate columnist and economics professor Steven Landsburg employs concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics in this sprightly tour of the deepest problems in philosophy: What is real? What can we know? Why is there something instead of nothing? And how should we live?Beginning with the broadest philosophical issues—theories of existence, knowledge, and ethics—Landsburg then turns to a dazzling variety of specific applications. He gives us a mathematical analysis for arguments for the existence of God; explains the real meanings of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Gödel’s incompleteness theorem; and carefully dissects the meaning of social responsibility on the playground, in the marketplace, and in the voting booth.

Stimulating, illuminating, and always surprising, The Big Questions reveals the relationship between the loftiest philosophical quests and our everyday lives.

Quick questions at the Indy 500: Who will win, and what's with those really ... - Washington Post


Quick questions at the Indy 500: Who will win, and what's with those really ...
Washington Post
A quick look at the big questions at Indy: ___ WHO WILL WIN? The front two rows for the start of the race are stacked with drivers from Penske Racing and Andretti Autosport, so it could very well be a shootout between those six guys.

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The big questions for Origin 1 - Back Page Lead


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The big questions for Origin 1
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HAVE YOUR SAY. Agree or disagree? Love or hate? Let us know what you think of this article by leaving a comment below and taking part in Australia's best independent sporting debate. The big questions for Origin 1.

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Why for some teens `Twilight` is a religious experience? - Zee News


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Why for some teens `Twilight` is a religious experience?
Zee News
Washington: Supernatural tales such as the `Twilight` series may give some non-religious teens a platform to grapple with the big questions of life, according to a new study. In Denmark, where religion is not a large part of daily life, teens seem to ...

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Facebook pricing poses two big questions - MarketWatch


Facebook pricing poses two big questions
MarketWatch
By MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — With Facebook Inc. unsurprisingly pricing its IPO at the high end of the forecast range for trading Friday, the big questions for potential investors are these: How high can the accelerating market and ...

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Answering the big questions - Livemint


Answering the big questions
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It is a hundred years since Muhammad Iqbal first recited Shikwa (Taking Issue) at a gathering of the Anjuman-e-Himayat-e-Islam in Lahore in 1909. Through the tumultuous century that succeeded this event, the poem and its response, Jawaab-e-Shikwa ...

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Alpha Course classes seek to answer the big questions about Christianity - Fayetteville Observer


Alpha Course classes seek to answer the big questions about Christianity
Fayetteville Observer
By Earl Vaughan Jr. Both Christians and non-Christians sometimes have hard questions they'd like to ask about the faith and what it means. Dr. Jonathan Jeffries thinks the answers can be found in something called the Alpha Course.

At European Summit, Bracing For Breakup: Seven And A Half Things To Know - Huffington Post


At European Summit, Bracing For Breakup: Seven And A Half Things To Know
Huffington Post
Thing Three: Facebook Fleecing: One of the big questions about the Facebook IPO is whether any laws were broken when some investors found out that Wall Street banks were slashing their estimates for Facebook and others didn't.

Is the post-metrosexual manscape landscape the 'mansome era'? - Los Angeles Times


Is the post-metrosexual manscape landscape the 'mansome era'?
Los Angeles Times
When it comes to answering the big questions about masculine identity and the male grooming ritual, Morgan Spurlock's latest movie, "Mansome" may barely scratch the surface (in spa terms that would make it more of an exfoliation than an extraction), ...

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Digging up roots - Columbus Dispatch


Columbus Dispatch

Digging up roots
Columbus Dispatch
The big questions became 'What county in Ireland?' 'When did they come?' and 'How did they get here?' ” Coghlan said. Trying to answer even those questions through Internet records proved difficult, because the spelling of the family name changed ...

ABC Still Wants to Make a Hulk TV Series - CSICON


ABC Still Wants to Make a Hulk TV Series
CSICON
One of the big questions after The Avengers (yes, we're still talking about it) was about Mark Ruffalo's portrayal of The Hulk. Would he be getting his own movie, and when? Seems that we're getting something else instead. Guillermo del Toro has been ...

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