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| Articles about Big Questions |
| Stephen Hawking: Asking big questions about the universe | | 2008-04-08 10:34:46 | | Stephen Hawking's scientific investigations have shed light on the origins of the cosmos, the nature of time and the ultimate fate of universe. His bestselling books for a general audience have given an appreciation of physics to millions. In this video, professor Hawking asks some Big Questions about our universe -- How did the universe begin? How did life begin? Are we alone? -- and discusses how we might go about answering them.
read more | | By: Machines Like Us - Science and Technology News | | |
| | Clayton Lists His "Big Questions" For AFC Teams | | 2007-05-07 20:35:07 | | We are officially in the doldrums of the NFL off-season. At least for a couple more weeks before I head out to Denver for the Fan Fair. Finding news to discuss is slim at best, and to be honest, since most news coming out this time of year is probably bad, it is a GOODthing when all is quiet on the Broncos front. One interesting tid-bit today was a column by John Clayton with his big questions for each of the AFC's teams. Never one to miss an opportunity to see what the "experts" think of our Broncos I decided to take a look. Here is what Clayton said was a big question facing teh Broncos -- So how much different will this Broncos defense be? Mike Shanahan surprised everyone by firing defensive coordinator Larry Coyer and replacing him with the talented Jim Bates. Equally surprising has been the overhaul in personnel. Middle linebacker Al Wilson was released. The Broncos also changed the focus of the defensive line, which had been filled with former Cleveland | | By: Mile High Report | | |
| | The Big Questions | | 2007-02-19 22:03:00 | | Looking back over the thirty thousand or more current affairs interviews I’ve conducted over the course of my career, I mark the beginning of my professional and personal maturity at the point where I began to understand how language can be fashioned to manipulate and distort people’s representations of reality.As a young journalist in the 1970’s fronting sausage-factory current affairs shows, churning out interviews which frequently had the uniformity and substance of a supermarket saveloy, I felt extravagantly inadequate to the task of bringing so-called opinion-makers to task. At times I found their rhetoric bewildering and intimidating. On other occasions, the sheer onslaught of verbiage took me to a point of stupefaction where questions and, in fact, words, no longer came.Being left speechless by the silken words of puffed-up public figures wasn’t an experience I particularly relished. This was especially so in live interviews. Their triumph and my imagined humiliation was a very public affair. I soon tired of turning the colour of a baboon’s backside each and every time my inadequacies as a questioner rendered me impotent and embarrassed.I knew I was being led a merry chase, but couldn’t identify the devices being used to deflect my occasionally incisive questions. My education, training and life experience hadn’t prepared me for this seemingly never-ending queue of absolutists ejaculating their ideologically ‘perfect’ models for a better and worse society, and getting away with it. I became pre-occupied, some would say obsessed, with investigating how to peel away the layers of grandiloquence, how to respond to obfuscation, how to detect the lie behind the smug reply and how to catch the sleight of mouth experts in the act.I also discovered that I didn’t know very much at all of what I didn’t know about questioning and language. What’s more, I found my peers didn’t know and my superiors didn’t know. The few books about the craft | | By: CharismaCom | | |
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