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…rld, a sense of science and of history and even geography, was closely held, fiercely opaque. Inside monastery walls or university halls the aim of protecting (and editing) what the world knew far outstripped any hunger for new ideas, for innovation or dissemination. In those tim...

Origins February 24 — 26, 2017 PROJECT An Origins Project Scientific Workshop ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Challenges of Artificial Intelligence: Envisioning and Addressing Adverse Outcomes 1) FINANCIAL MARKETS Al, Trading Systems, and Market Manipulation (Incorporating contributi...

…4, 399 Feynman’s proof 157 Fields Fellowship 368 Fields Medal 368 Finland 54 FitzGerald, Edward 372 Florida State University 37 flowchart 244 Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies 49 fluid intelligence 29, 33 fluorescent dyes 100 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016099

…iously mentioned these measures as used in human experiments by Karen Selz, a Research Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta. Recall that she devised a set of experiments leading to unobtrusive measures made on human subjects by asking them to remove, as many as...

…ding all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved Elisa New Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Harvard University 148 Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 HOUSE OVERSIGHT 027035

…iscovery led to the novel idea that, in effect, the brain produces its own pharmacy. In 1978, three scientists from the University of California at San Francisco—Jon Levine, Newton Gordon, and Howard Fields— decided to investigate whether endor- phins might explain why patients w...

…rary to popular belief’: Karl August Wittfogel, Oriental Despotism; a Comparative Study of Total Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957) 27 “The Internet of Things”: See “The Zettabyte Era - Trends and Analysis” from Cisco Systems (San Jose) 2015 27 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_0182...

…along in two feet of snow. By the Seine, at 14°, paranoid barge hounds barked in big dog baritones. | ran on the Hebrew University track a block away from a loud Palestinian bomb left in a refrigerator near a busy street corner. Breathless at nine thousand feet in Aspen, gagging...

…d drawn blood. I had just turned 26 years old. I was finishing my studies in math, physics and economics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and had joined my Sayeret Matkal comrades the night before the assault. It was a huge operation: ten battalions, including crack infant...

… invented independently in the 1970s by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, working for EMI in England, and Allan Cormack, of Tufts University in America, and they shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work. Legend has it that EMI was making so much money from The Beatles they c...

the scientists at Oregon Health & Science University provided an exceptionally detailed account of their techniques. For anyone with a well-equipped fertility lab

…or and Felix Gilbert, eds., Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986) and Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”, Filiquarian (1986) 52 “Within five hours”: Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscenes (Naval Institute Press, 1964)...

…f the independence that would be required of him the following year when he was going to be hundreds of miles away at a university. Filled with benign optimism, | felt the compassionate perspective afforded those with energy but without envy, anger or fear. William James, in Vari...

…His latest book is The Struggle for Arab Independence: Riad el-Solh and the Makers of the Modern Middle East (Cambridge University Press). HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024969

…aris. And when he comes home to New York he hosts parties where important people—corporate titans, real estate tycoons, university presidents, Nobel Prize-winning scientists, princes, €x-presidents, and heads of state— mingle with beautiful women. Some guests marvel in public: W...