2001 : WHAT QUESTIONS HAVE DISAPPEARED?

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2001 : WHAT QUESTIONS HAVE DISAPPEARED?

What is 'vital force'? Geoffrey E. Hinton AI researcher at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit...	Do genes influence human behavior? Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...
Are subordinate clauses more typical of languages with a long literary tradition than integral features of human speech? John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia...	Why can't we use technology to solve social problems? Howard Rheingold Communications Expert; Author, Smart Mobs
How does [fill in the blank] in human affairs relate to the great central theory? David Berreby Journalist; Author, Us and Them	What is the nature of our creator? Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...
A question no longer: what is the Theory of Every Thing? Philip W. Anderson Nobel Laureate; Physicist	What will life be like after the revolution? Jay Ogilvy a cofounder of GBN, a Partner in the Monitor Group of...
Does God play dice? Leon M. Lederman Director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	What do women want? Sylvia Paull founder of Gracenet
questions that were asked in extinct languages David Haig George Putnam Professor of Biology, Harvard University;...	How do our brains become who we are? Joseph LeDoux Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and...
Is enlightenment a myth or a reality? John Horgan Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of...	How long before all nations obey the basic principles of the human rights as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th, 1948? Jason Calacanis Internet Entrepreneur; Angel Investor
Are you hoping for a girl or a boy? Lance Knobel Independent Writer and Strategist	Was Einstein Right? Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...
Will the free market finally triumph? Stephen Schneider climatologist, is a professor in the Department of...	Where did the moon go? William H. Calvin Theoretical Neurobiologist; Affiliate Professor Emeritus,...
Has History Ended? Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...	How many angels can dance on the point of a pin? Karl Sabbagh Producer; Founder, Managing Director, Skyscraper...
Do genes influence human behavior? Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...	What can government do to help create a better sort of human? Joel Garreau Principal, The Garreau Group
When will overpopulation create worldwide starvation? Denis Dutton Philosopher; Founder and Editor, Arts & Letters Daily;...	What does the other side of the moon look like? George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Analogia
The definition of life and consciousness? Stanislas Dehaene Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author, How We...	Do I have e-mail? Mark Hurst Founder of Internet consulting firm Creative Good
Why Teach Mathematics? Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...	What does all the information mean? Raphael Kasper physicist, is Associate Vice Provost for Research at...
the old question of whether our categories of reality are discovered or constructed Margaret Wertheim science writer and commentator	Obsolete and Inappropriate Metaphors Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...
When will we face another energy crisis, and how will we cope with it? Kenneth W. Ford Retired Director of the American Institute of Physics	Does money buy happiness? David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...
What is Reality? Piet Hut professor of astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced...	Should the right to own property be preserved? Jordan Pollack Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis...
Why is life so full of suffering? Randolph Nesse Research Professor of Life Sciences, Director (2014-2019),...	Looking at the world upside down: what are we enhancing or what is vanishing in our brains while flat and dormant views of the universe are slowly disappearing? Eduardo Punset Scientist; Spanish Television Presenter; Author, The...
Why are humans smarter than other animals? Alun Anderson Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and...	How can I stop the soul of the deceased reanimating the body? Timothy Taylor Jan Eisner Professor of Archaeology, Comenius University in...
What about the workers? Marek Kohn Journalist	What is it that makes something alive? Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...
Why can't girls/women do math? Keith Devlin Mathematician; Executive Director, H-STAR Institute,...	How does a slide rule work? John D. Barrow Cosmologist; Physicist; Professor of Mathematical Science,...
Where Does Love Come From? Brian Goodwin Professor of Biology at Schumacher College	None Christopher Phillips Author, Socrates Cafe
Did Noah Really Collect all Species of Earthly Organism on his Ark? Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...	Do Men and Women Differ Psychologically David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...
Why Is There Something Instead of Nothing? Andy Clark Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy...	Have We Seen the End of Science? Will the Internet Stock Bubble Burst? Joseph Traub Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University;...
Obsolete and Inappropriate Metaphors Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...	Do computers think? Rafael Núñez Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of...
How do people differ in the ways they think and learn? Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...	Don't reckon that I know John Allen Paulos professor of mathematics at Temple University
Who are we? Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark	What is the next step in the evolution of democracy? Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's...
Do we survive death? Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...	Who should make the truly global decisions, and how? Izumi Aizu Executive Director, Institute for HyperNetwork Society;...
Where Was Lost Atlantis? Eberhard Zangger Managing director of science communications	How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and...
Why is our sense of beauty and elegance such a useful tool for discriminating between a good theory and a bad theory? Al Seckel Cognitive neuroscientist; Author, Optical Illusions: The...	Professor of Law at Temple University David Post Professor of Law at Temple University
None Henry Warwick artist, composer, and scientist	Does God Exist? Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...
a set of questions that ought to have disappeared; questions that seek reasons for patterns that in reality are due to chance Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...	Who does your bleeding? Tracy Quan Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel.
What do these discarded questions tell us? J. Doyne Farmer Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University; Director,...	And why? David Deutsch Physicist, University of Oxford; Author, The Beginning of...
How will Americans handle a surplus of leisure? Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...	Can science answer moral and ethical questions? Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...
Is God Dead? Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...	Where is the Great American Novel? Daniel McNeill author of The Face, and principal author of the best-...
The Great Idea That's Disappeared Colin Tudge Biologist; Author, Six Steps Back to the Land	Can machines think? Pamela McCorduck Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded...
Where has Darwin gone? Milford H. Wolpoff Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan; Adjunct...	How fast is the Earth moving? Paul Davies Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-...
Is nothing sacred? Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	Are there planets around other stars? Tom Standage Business Affairs Editor, The Economist; Author, The Edible...
A question no longer: what is the Theory of Every Thing? Philip W. Anderson Nobel Laureate; Physicist	Can you have an artificial intelligence? Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...
As William Blake might have written to a coelacanth: Did he who made the haplochromids make thee? Richard Dawkins Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public...	The questions that have disappeared are eschatological Thomas A. Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University of...
How should adult education work? How do we educate the masses? David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...	Are women and men equal? Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...
monograph Goedel's theorem Verena Huber-Dyson 1923-2016; Emeritus Professor, Formerly, Philosophy...	What's your business model? Dave Winer Blogging and RSS Software Pioneer; Editor, Scripting News...
What are the implications of human nature for political systems? This question was openly discussed in two historical periods. Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	the old Platonic questions about the nature of the good and the form of beauty James J. O'Donnell Classics Scholar, University Librarian, ASU; Author, Pagans
What is the difference between men and pigs? Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...	Is the Central Dogma of biology inviolate? Robert Aunger Biological Anthropologist; Author, Gaining Control
Is human nature innately good or evil? Ann Crittenden Journalist; Lecturer; Author, If You've Raised Kids,...