Space and modernity: 50 years on

Inclusive fitness: 50 years on.

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Interstellar Grains: 50 Years On

Our understanding of the nature of interstellar grains has evolved considerably over the past half century with the present author and Fred Hoyle being intimately involved at several key stages of progress. The currently fashionable graphite-silicate-organic grain model has all its essential aspects unequivocally traceable to original peer-reviewed publications by the author and/or Fred Hoyle. ...

Interpreted Modernity Weber and Taylor on Values and Modernity

The writings of Weber and Taylor have some strong affinities. Both start from the anthropological idea that man evaluates his position in the world and constitutes the social world by values. Their analyses of values aim at an understanding of those intersubjective meanings that have constituted western modernity. But, at the same time, their anthropological starting point leads to different in...

The Soviet "Doctors' Plot"-50 years on.

The Everett Interpretation: 50 years on

The problem of measurement in quantum mechanics was apparent shortly after the theory’s invention, in the mid 1920s, by Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Dirac. It is recognizably the successor to the problem of wave-particle duality. Its origins therefore lie with the very beginnings of the discovery of the quantum. It has never been laid to rest. It haunts us still. If anything the problem is beco...