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On January 7, 2012, the National Post published an article about Stephen Hawking who recently celebrated the seventieth anniversary of his birth. The article included Stephen Hawking’s answers to several questions posed by viewers of the BBC.
According to the article, Stephen Hawking said that the origin of the universe can be explained by the laws of physics without any need for miracles or divine intervention. Quoting the article,” These laws predict that the universe was spontaneously ...

Yesterday, I listened to a lecture called Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirkey. It mainly dealt with the question of how we could use what he calls the "cognitive surplus", or spare time and effort that we can put toward anything from creating high art to watching TV.

At one point, the discussion focused on Twitter, and how some people decry it as a symptom of the death of "proper" communication. Shirkey made an argument for the opposite that I found interesting. ...