Three Gorges Dam: The TVA on the Yangtze River
by William C. Jones and Marsha Freeman
China’s Three Gorges Dam, modelled on the Tennessee Valley Authority, will greatly reduce the threat of flooding, and lead to a new era of economic development. *Full PDF
Why Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid—And Dangerous
Where Do We Attach the Head?
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Until a fundamentally new approach is taken to scientific work, there is no way the AIDS epidemic can be effectively countered.
PROFILES IN PORRIDGE
The Artificial Reputation of John von Neumann’s Intelligence
Ralf Schauerhammer
Von Neumann has been lauded as “the Man of the Century,” and the “inventor of the computer,” but his so-called accomplishments are computed out of thin air. * Full text
The First Programmer Was a Woman
How Norbert Wiener Found Cybernetics, and Lost Human Creativity
Ralf Schauerhammer
Cyberspace and information technology are infected with a deadly “bug,” which incapacitates individuals and society, by denying the existence of cognition.
SPECIAL REPORT
Programmed to Kill: Video Games, Drugs, and the ‘New Violence’
Michele Steinberg
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Science Magazine Peddles Nazi Eugenics
Jeffrey Steinberg
* Full text
EDITORIAL
Reflections on Artificial Intelligence: Is the Mind a 'Thing'
Laurence Hecht
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NEWS
ENVIRONMENT
Environmentalists Are Destroying Our National Forests
Richard Bennett
The Lesson of Los Alamos: America’s Forests Need ‘Active Management’
Thomas Bonnicksen, Ph.D.
PEDAGOGY
New Key Unlocks Puzzle of the Hanoi Tower
Jacob Welsh
DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS
RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Advances in Developing the Moon Nuclear Model
Laurence Hecht
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Who Was Robert J. Moon?
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Nuclear Transmutation Considered As Cause in Geologic Transformation
Jack Sauers
VIEWPOINT
Deregulation: Turning Out America’s Lights
Marsha Freeman
NEWS BRIEFS
BOOKS
Excess Heat: Why Cold Fusion Research Prevailed
by Charles Beaudette
reviewed by Thomas E. Phipps, Jr.
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals As Solar Observatories
by J.L. Heilbron
reviewed by Rick Sanders
The Rainbow and the Worm: The Physics of Organisms
by Mae-Wan Ho
reviewed by Ron Castonguay
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