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Optimistic Essays and Term Papers
Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging An Honest ConsensusVisiting Researcher, The Foresight Institute
P.O. Box 61058, Palo Alto, CA 94306 USA
hanson@charon.arc.nasa.gov 510-651-7483
To appear in Social Epistemology, 1992. (version appeared: in Proc. Eighth
Intl. Conf. on Risk and Gambling, London, 7/90.)
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Overpopulation 2There are 6 billion human beings on the face of the Earth. According to our best estimates, there are somewhere between three and seven times more people than this planet can possibly maintain over a long period of time. Non-renewable resources are being used at an incredible rate, and we are ...
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20s And 30sWhen many people study history and learn the mistakes from the past, it would be easier to able to understand the present. Nevertheless, it is not enough to simply study the events that have transpired. By changing the unfavorable events that led to despair and continuing the benefits to society, ...
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The Sources Of Public PolicyRationing medical care is a very important subject. Many low-and-middle income people lack health insurance and could not afford an expensive treatment if it were needed. The best care is given to those with money enough to pay for it or with good insurance plans paid for by employers.
With the ...
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Voltaire And MachiavelliThe novel, Candide, by Voltaire, is a scathing, satirical criticism of the world. It is a product of possibly the greatest philosopher of the Enlightenment. The novel examines many aspects of the world, which Voltaire found to be troublesome. These different aspects include everything from ...
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FreedomState of Nature To trigger off any philosophy on what should be the characteristics of the state we must first imagine living in a state of nature (living with the lack of a state). Since we cannot trace back to any time that we've been without government, we must imagine what it would be like in ...
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Five Imporant Events Of The 19Five Important Events of the 1960s
During the 1960s the world was hit with four different assassinations of some of the leaders in the world who were out to change the way things were. Although some disagreed to the changes that they were trying to do and even threatened them, they still ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Vs MalcMartin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X grew up in different environments. King was raised in a comfortable middle-class family where education was stressed. On the other hand, Malcolm X came from and underprivileged home. He was a self-taught man who received ...
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Crusades 4Introduction In the year of our lord 1095, Pope Urban II started what we know as the Holy Wars or the Crusades. Over the period from 1095-1464, a series of military expeditions were fought to take back the Holy Land, Jerusalem, from the Seldjuk Turks. There were eight crusades which were spurred ...
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Dimitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the ...
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The Twenties And ThirtiesThe twenties and the thirties were very unusual time periods in American History. In some ways they are alike, but in most ways they are very different. The twenties were a time of fun and partying. This is probably the reason it is called the Roaring Twenties. All of the thirties were known as ...
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Anti-Social Personality DisorderIn a world full of fears, perhaps the worst one a human being should have is that to be afraid of his fellow man. The human that should be most feared is the one that has or in laymen's terms the psychopath. The psychopath is probably the most deviant mind that exists and treatment is not very ...
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The Causes Of World War 1, And The BattlesThe First World War had many causes; the historians probably have not yet
discovered and discussed all of them so there might be more causes than
what we know now. The spark of the Great War was the assassination of the
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and ...
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Macro Signals Declining EfficiIt may be useful to put the discussion of performance constraints of the Thai economy briefly in perspective. Over the past 2 decades, the Thai economy has been one of the best performing economies in the world, characterized by sustained high growth rates, averaging 10.3% 1985-90, and 8% in the ...
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Chinese Economic ReformTwo years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution" which had had as their bases ...
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Pass The WeedThe cries of conservatives across America has grown to a riotous roar.
The problem is that the long-standing and unjust prohibition of the psychoactive
drug marijuana has been lifted by voters in Arizona and California. Under the
new law, doctors can prescribe marijuana to those patients who can ...
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The CathedralThe narrator in Raymond Carver’s Cathedral is not a particularly sensitive man. I might describe him as self-centered, superficial and egotistical. And while his actions certainly speak to these points, it is his misunderstanding of the people and the relationships presented to him in this ...
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Signs Of The ZodiacWhat zone of the zodiac was the sun in when you were born? For centuries people have studied the effect of the sun and other celestial bodies in shaping the personalities of individuals. Many people believe that it is possible to achieve a better understanding of individuals by knowing what sign ...
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Monroe DoctrineThe can be considered as the United States first major declaration to the world as a fairly new nation. The was a statement of United States policy on the activity and rights of powers in the Western Hemisphere during the early to mid 1800s. The doctrine established the United States position ...
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