"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." - Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983)
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Here I have selected documents, articles, and essays from a variety of topics and authors that I have felt furthered my general knowledge and understanding. This section will grow as I find more material. I hope that the material contained on this page benefits others as much as it has me.
       
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Civil Rights | Debate | General Issues | Government | Individualism | Insight | Motivation | Michael Moore | Psychology | Science
Scientific American Digital Articles | Skepticism | Sociology

     
  Civil Rights    
  King Jr., Martin Luther I Have a Dream  
     
  Debate    
  Macedon The Mannerly Art of Disagreement  
     
  General Issues    
  Anonymous A Tax Cut Parable  
  Reagan, Ronald A Time for Choosing  
     
  Government    
  Founding Fathers, The The Bill of Rights  
  Founding Fathers, The The Constitution of the United States  
  Jefferson, Thomas The Declaration of Independence  
     
  Individualism    
  Soseki, Natsume My Individualism - Watakushi no Kojinshugi  
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  Motivation    
  Allen, James As a man Thinketh  
  Emerson, Ralph Waldo Compensation  
  Emerson, Ralph Waldo Nature  
  Gray, Albert E.N. The Common Denominator of Success  
     
  Michael Moore    
  Hardy, David T. Bowling for Columbine: Documentary or Fiction?  
  Rhoads, Dr. Kelton Propaganda & Fahrenheit 9/11  
  Kopel, David Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911  
  Ethics and Public Policy Center War, Lies, and Videotape: A Viewer's Guide to Fahrenheit 9/11  
     
  Psychology  
  Lilienfeld, Scotto O. What's Wrong with this Picture?  
  West, Tina How Should Reading be Taught?  
     
  Science    
  Stephan, Karl D. Tegmark's Parallel Universes: A Challenge to Intelligent Design?  
     
  Scientific American Digital Articles  
 
Uncatagorized Articles   Misc. Environmental Articles
Parallel Universes   Controlling Hurricanes
Dwarf Galaxies   The End of Cheap Oil
The Most Distant Radio Galaxies   Misleading Math Abou the Earth
A New Look at Quasars   Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb
Mapping the Universe   The Skeptical Environmentalist Replies
Is Space Finite?    
Inflation in a Low-Density Universe   Endangered Earth
Gamma-Ray Bursts   Is Global Warming Harmful to Health
The Life Cycle    
Galaxies in the Young Universe   Exploring Intelligence
Edwin Hubble and the Expanding Universe   The General Intelligence Factor
The Evolution of Galaxy    
Does Dark Matter Really Exist?   Magnificent Cosmos
The Cosmic Reality Check   Colossal Galactic Explosions
Cosmic Antimatter   The Ghostliest Galaxies
Cosmological Antigravity   Evolution of the Universe
Surveying Spacetime with Supernovae   The Expansion Rate and Size of the Universe
The Quintessential Universe   The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe (1994)
From Slowdown to Speedup   The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe (1998)
The Evolution of the Periodic System   Dark Matter in the Universe
Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes    
The Incredible Shrinking Circuit   Mysteries of the Milkey Way
Saving Dying Languages   How the Milkey Way Formed
The Cosmic Symphony   The Gas between the Stars
The Grid: Computing Without Bounds    
Low-Temperature Superconductivity is Warming Up   Mysteries of the Mind
Music and the Brain   The Puzzle of Conscious Experience
How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate?    
The Tyranny of Choice   Tackling Major Killers: Cancer
The Unseen Genome: Gems Among the Junk   Untangling the Roots of Cancer
The Early Evolution of Animals    
Stimulating the Brain   The Brain: A Look Inside
Weapons of Mass Disruption   Television Addiction is No Mere Metaphore
Making Molecules into Motors    
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense   The Edge of Physics
Echoes from the Big Bang   Black Holes and the Information Paradox
The Alternative Genome   A Unified Physics by 2050?
    The Theory Formerly Known as Strings
    The Large Hadron Collider
    The Asymmetry Between Matter and Anti-Matter
    Detecting the Massive Neutrino
     
    The Secret Lives of Stars
    The First Stars in the Universe
    Magnetstars
    The Brightest Explosions in the Universe
     
  Skepticism    
  Shermer, Michael Deconstructing The Dead: Cross Over One Last Time To Expose Medium John Edward
  Shermer, Michael How Psychics and Mediums Work: A Case Study of James Van Praagh
     
  Sociology: Globalization    
  Barber, Benjamin R. Jihad vs. McWorld  
  Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations  
       
       
       
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