OBRA MAESTRA

09/10/2009
NEWS
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009
awarded to:
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA…

“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”

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Barack Obama

USA

44th President of the United States of America

b. 1961

“His diplomacy is founded in the concept that [...]

Excerpts from
The Mind in the Making by
James Harvey Robinson (June 29, 1863–February 16, 1936) was an American historian.
Robinson was born Bloomington, Illinois. He taught history at the University of Pennsylvania (1891–95) and Columbia University (1895–1919), becoming a full professor in 1895.
In 1919, he was one of the founders of the New School for Social [...]

In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies that seek to quantify the historical ebb and flow of violence point to exactly that conclusion.
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by Steven Pinker
Introduction
Once [...]

The first of Buddha’s Four Noble Truths:
“Life is Difficulty”

Einstein sought in science what artists seek in art.
Einstein attempted to escape from the gloominess and terrors of society by connecting with the whole universe.
Einstein wanted sense and beauty in the physical world.
“God does not play dice with the Universe.”
He hoped to find a hidden [...]

Drawing on autobiographical accounts from the time of Charles Darwin to the present, this lecture seeks to illuminate the private world in which scientists and laypersons alike have experienced the implications of creation and evolution.
by Ronald L. Numbers*
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.asp?showID=7192 *
Ronald L. Numbers (born 1942) is an American historian of science who received his Ph.D. in [...]