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My new television show “Sci-Fi Science” on The Science Channel is inspired by my book “Physics of the Impossible.” The first season of the show takes viewers through the wildest […]
My new television show “Sci-Fi Science” on The Science Channel is inspired by my book “Physics of the Impossible.” The first season of the show takes viewers through the wildest […]
My new television show “Sci-Fi Science” on The Science Channel is inspired by my book “Physics of the Impossible.” The first season of the show takes viewers through the wildest […]
Following up on Monday’s post about WikiLeaks, today I address the moral correctness of the organization. There is no evidence that WikiLeaks disclosed the names of Afghan informants; there is inductive evidence that […]
Stanley Fish argues that plagiarism is not a “big moral deal” because the taboo against passing off someone else’s work as your own is just an arbitrary disciplinary convention. Fish […]
“America has always been the country in the world with more protection for speech,” says legendary First Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams, adding, “there’s really an astonishing, a breathtaking degree of […]
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Abrams weighs in on the Supreme Court’s free speech decisions on the non-profit corporation Citizens United’s right to broadcast a film critical of Hilary Clinton ahead of the 2008 election […]
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Abrams’ initial interest was in English law, which is less protective of free speech. As he learned more about the role that journalists can play at their best—and about the […]
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Our understanding of the First Amendment is in flux. According to Abrams, these five cases have deeply shaped how freedoms of speech, press, and religion have come to be defined.
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Abrams, who worked on the Pentagon Papers case, talks about how Julian Assange’s exposés about U.S. policy are different from Daniel Ellsberg’s revelations about Vietnam.
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The U.S. has an “astonishing” and “breathtaking” degree of freedom for people, organizations, and institutions to have their say. Abrams talks about where this freedom meets its limits.
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The legendary First Amendment lawyer gives a primer on what everyone needs to know about freedoms of religion, speech and press.
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A conversation with the legendary First Amendment attorney.
Salt and Salander flip conventional notions of gender roles. Are they the new models of millennial femininity while sacrificing being "real" women, asks Luisita Lopez Torregrosa.
The efforts of tens of thousands of players in an online game provided a rich, new set of search strategies for the prediction of protein structures. "Nature" explains the implications.
Out-of-control Jersey Shore cast member Snooki reveals the ever-shrinking gap in America between who we are and how we broadcast ourselves to the world, Max Fisher considers.
We are but two days away from Friday 13th August, which for all of those who are superstitious about black cats or walking under ladders, threatens to be something of […]
Cancer cells love sugar. More specifically, fructose and glucose fuel pancreatic cancer cell growth. More reason to rein in your sugar consumption, says Conner Middelmann Whitney.
Quality, not cost, is the reason companies cite for their increasing investment in open source software, says Amy Vernon in a report on an Accenture survey.
As the German military pays $5,000 to every family that lost a member in an airstrike in Afghanistan, Spiegel looks at how much the life of a dead civilian is worth.