Tagged ‘michio kaku’

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    Physics of the Impossible
    Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

    I'm hoping that as I make my way through Physics of the Impossible, Kaku will avoid Hawking's penchant for history. I wonder how much of the futurist's tendency to repeat himself is really the fault of the author; I imagine Kaku's editors are told by the publisher to make any book in the series serve as a possible entry point for any reader, so that means we're going to hear about how Kaku built an atom smasher in high school again, or read an explanation of Michael Faraday's early years in every book. Annoying? Yes. Necessary? Not so much.

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    So, how much do you know how to know?
    Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

    What does it mean to be knowledgeable in a web 2.0 twenty-first century? Is it a matter of how much you know, or how much you know how to know?