2001 : WHAT QUESTIONS HAVE DISAPPEARED?

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2001 : WHAT QUESTIONS HAVE DISAPPEARED?

Do genes influence human behavior? Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...	What is the difference between men and pigs? Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...
What can government do to help create a better sort of human? Joel Garreau Principal, The Garreau Group	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,...	And why? David Deutsch Physicist, University of Oxford; Author, The Beginning of...
What do these discarded questions tell us? J. Doyne Farmer Professor of Mathematics, Oxford University; Director,...	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	How many angels can dance on the point of a pin? Karl Sabbagh Producer; Founder, Managing Director, Skyscraper...
None Christopher Phillips Author, Socrates Cafe	How do our brains become who we are? Joseph LeDoux Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, Psychiatry, and...
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...	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	The questions that have disappeared are eschatological Thomas A. Bass Professor of English and Journalism, State University 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...	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	Should the right to own property be preserved? Jordan Pollack Professor and Chairman of Computer Science, Brandeis...
How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature. Geoffrey Miller Evolutionary psychologist, NYU Stern Business School and...	Why is life so full of suffering? Randolph Nesse Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution...
Do I have e-mail? Mark Hurst Founder of Internet consulting firm Creative Good	Do computers think? Rafael Núñez Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of...
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...
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
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
Have We Seen the End of Science? Will the Internet Stock Bubble Burst? Joseph Traub Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University;...	Do animals have thoughts? Marc D. Hauser Psychologist and Biologist, Harvard University: Author,...
Obsolete and Inappropriate Metaphors Robert Provine Research Professor/Professor Emeritus, University of...	Who does your bleeding? Tracy Quan Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel.
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,...
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...
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;...
Does God Exist? Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...	Can machines think? Pamela McCorduck Author, Machines Who Think, The Universal Machine, Bounded...
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...	What about the workers? Marek Kohn Journalist
Can you have an artificial intelligence? Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...	What is the next step in the evolution of democracy? Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Time Reborn
Do we survive death? Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...	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...	Does God play dice? Leon M. Lederman Director emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
What do women want? Sylvia Paull founder of Gracenet	Are there planets around other stars? Tom Standage Business Affairs Editor, The Economist; Author, The Edible...
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	A question no longer: what is the Theory of Every Thing? Philip W. Anderson Nobel Laureate; Physicist
Who are we? Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark	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...
Can science answer moral and ethical questions? Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...	Did Noah Really Collect all Species of Earthly Organism on his Ark? Clifford Pickover Author, The Math Book, The Physics Book, and The Medical...
Is God Dead? Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...	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...	The definition of life and consciousness? Stanislas Dehaene Neuroscientist; Collège de France, Paris; Author,...
When will overpopulation create worldwide starvation? Denis Dutton Philosopher; Founder and Editor, Arts & Letters Daily;...	What is 'vital force'? Geoffrey E. Hinton AI researcher at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit...
questions that were asked in extinct languages David Haig George Putnam Professor of Biology, Harvard University;...	Do genes influence human behavior? Judith Rich Harris Independent Investigator and Theoretician; Author, The...
How will Americans handle a surplus of leisure? Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...	Are women and men equal? Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...
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...	monograph Goedel's theorem Verena Huber-Dyson 1923-2016; Emeritus Professor, Formerly, Philosophy...
Professor of Law at Temple University David Post Professor of Law at Temple University	None Henry Warwick artist, composer, and scientist
How can I stop the soul of the deceased reanimating the body? Timothy Taylor Professor of the Prehistory of Humanity, University of...	Why are humans smarter than other animals? Alun Anderson Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and...
Are you hoping for a girl or a boy? Lance Knobel Independent Writer and Strategist	What does the other side of the moon look like? George Dyson Science Historian ; Author, Turing’s Cathedral; Darwin...
Was Einstein Right? Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...	How should adult education work? How do we educate the masses? David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...
Will the free market finally triumph? Stephen Schneider climatologist, is a professor in the Department of...	A question no longer: what is the Theory of Every Thing? Philip W. Anderson Nobel Laureate; Physicist
Where has Darwin gone? Milford H. Wolpoff Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan; Adjunct...	What will life be like after the revolution? Jay Ogilvy a cofounder of GBN, a Partner in the Monitor Group of...
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...
Don't reckon that I know John Allen Paulos professor of mathematics at Temple University	How do people differ in the ways they think and learn? Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...
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 Research Professor/Professor Emeritus, University of...
What is the nature of our creator? Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...	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