Anatomy of a selfish genius
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Richard Dawkins, professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford University, England, has gained a strong reputation as a brilliant teacher of science. He is concerned to ensure that science satisfies people's emotional and spiritual needs, as well as their intellectual ones. He believes that he knows the world to be morally meaningless, and has a particularly strong hatred of religion. He seems to really wish to be made professor of the public understanding of religion, a position he would use to explain that religion is meaningless.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Altruistic equations that killed a good man
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US scientist George Price, who committed suicide in Jan 1975, had developed an existing mathematical equation to show that altruism can prosper among basically selfish animals, even human beings. This discovery about human nature greatly disturbed him, and eventually prompted his suicide. His life and death show both the very complex relationship between religion and science and the great difference between a scientist's understanding of selfishness and a novelist's understanding of the same concept.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1996
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Trying to read between the software lines
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Computer magazines do not help the inexperienced purchaser choose a computer or computer software as they are written for people who already have an in depth knowledge. Looking like computer catalogues the magazines assume readers have some knowledge of products available and therefore review items superficially. There is little to remark on hardware unless it does not work, and software reviews list functions available and need to be watched for the omissions rather than inclusions.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1992
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