Posts tagged: Knowledge

The Origin Of The Brain

“The human brain contains over 100 billion neurons, and roughly 1 quintillion synapses. But how did it all get started? How did the first nervous systems, the first brains evolve? How did a bunch of simple cells evolve into a biological computer?”

Dawkins and Dennet Discuss the Meaning of Life and Death

Fellow atheists Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist, and Daniel Dennet, an American philosopher of science, discuss the meaning of life and death.

Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

G. Edward Griffin has opposed the Federal Reserve since the 1960s, saying it constitutes a banking cartel and an instrument of war and totalitarianism.

Calculation And Socialism

The economic calculation problem is a criticism of socialist economics, or more precisely central economic planning. It was first proposed by Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises in 1920 and was later expounded by Friedrich Hayek.