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Dick Garwin has worked on science and technology problems since the first thermonuclear weapon in 1951. Today we discuss space nuclear detonations, spy satellites, sequential memory, MRI, laser printers, touch-screen monitors, nuclear weapons testing, nuclear reactor accidents, Ebola, oil spills, and gravitational waves. Dick is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (all 3). His awards include the 2003 National Medal of Science & the 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Institutions of higher education, especially in the United States, have received a great deal of attention over the past two generations regarding their ideological march to the left, and the impacts, real or imagined, on society at large. Criticism of American universities has sharpened since...
Published 11/11/24
What was the Western World's understanding of the origins of humanity prior to the Enlightenment? Why did Christopher Columbus have a Hebrew speaker on his voyages of exploration? Why did the American universities founded before the Revolution have Hebrew in their curriculum? What role did...
Published 10/11/24