Friday, February 27, 2009

Charlie Rose's Thursday, February 26, 2009 conversation with Jeff Bezos

These are highlights; and there aren't really any transcripts available for this particular segment of highlights. But you can definitely check the montage out here, on CharlieRose.com. He's basically making a push for the Kindle, as Amazon's future basically rests on this thing; it's foundation. Remember that Amazon got its start in the book business, and it doesn't intend on losing its online foothold here, on this market. See this web search.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Karl Popper from Game Theory (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) by Stephen Thornton

[Revised entry by Stephen Thornton on February 9, 2009. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography] Karl Popper is generally regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century. He was also a social and political philosopher of considerable stature, a self-professed 'critical-rationalist', a dedicated opponent of all forms of scepticism, conventionalism, and relativism in science and in human affairs generally, a committed advocate and staunch defender of the...
See the Stanford U Plato entry here.