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- 'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo 18 comments
- "...an advanced civilization could have developed a technology that created a baby universe out of nothing through quantum tunneling." Could our universe have been created by alien intelligences as Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggested recently? https://mindmatters.ai/2021/10/harvard-astronomer-advanced-aliens-engineered-the-big-bang/ 218 comments aliens
- Aurelius reflected in his Meditations on the vastness of the universe and the infinity of time: the world does not revolve around us. Our lives are nothing but moments when placed within this cosmic perspective. These moments make a lot of difference in our lives. https://medium.com/curious/catastrophe-overload-then-live-like-a-stoic-for-24-hours-ee0bed19009f 136 comments philosophy
- Rashmi Samant’s resignation had nothing to do with her being Indian or Hindu: Oxford University societies https://indianexpress.com/article/india/rashmi-samants-resignation-as-president-of-the-oxford-student-union-had-nothing-to-do-with-her-being-indian-or-hindu-university-societies-7239794/ 3 comments worldnews
- Rashmi Samant’s resignation had nothing to do with her being Indian or Hindu: Oxford University societies. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/rashmi-samants-resignation-as-president-of-the-oxford-student-union-had-nothing-to-do-with-her-being-indian-or-hindu-university-societies-7239794/ 55 comments india
- A university is offering scholarships for you to do absolutely nothing https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/29/europe/university-scholarships-for-doing-nothing-trnd/index.html 13 comments nottheonion
- The universe could self destruct at ANY SECOND and there’s NOTHING we can do https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/725046/universe-self-destruct-button-apocalypse 15 comments science
- Nothing within the universe can predict the universe completely perfectly https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0167278908001243 5 comments science
- Universities told to refund half of students’ tuition fees for failing to make up missed lectures during strikes: 'Some universities have done nothing and we don’t think that’s fair,' adjudicator says https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/students-university-strikes-tuition-fees-compensation-office-independent-adjudicator-complaints-a8913806.html 9 comments worldnews
- Universal income study finds money for nothing won't make us work less https://www.newscientist.com/article/2193136-universal-income-study-finds-money-for-nothing-wont-make-us-work-less/ 6 comments economy
- ‘Twitter is bad for democracy, not just for me’: JNU leader Shehla Rashid on why she logged out. The Jawaharlal Nehru University scholar claims Twitter has done nothing to tackle abuse by Hindutva trolls because it works closely with the Indian government. https://scroll.in/article/901889/its-bad-not-just-for-me-its-bad-for-democracy-student-leader-shehla-rashid-on-quitting-twitter 54 comments india
- Critics of universal basic income argue giving people money for nothing discourages working — but a study of Alaska's 36-year-old program suggests that's not the case https://www.businessinsider.com/alaska-universal-basic-income-employment-2018-10 53 comments politics
- So if the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, and since nothing is faster than light in our universe, does that mean that inevitably there is for sure a multiverse? Do other universes in the multiverse have different physics? https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/8vvqac/so_if_the_universe_is_expanding_faster_than_the/ 7 comments space
- Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/a-mathematical-proof-that-the-universe-could-have-formed-spontaneously-from-nothing-ed7ed0f304a3 26 comments science
- Money for nothing: is Finland's universal basic income trial too good to be true? https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/jan/12/money-for-nothing-is-finlands-universal-basic-income-trial-too-good-to-be-true 98 comments europe
- Money for nothing - conference hears universal payment could solve social issues http://www.newstalk.com/money-for-nothing--conference-hears-universal-payment-could-solve-social-issues 6 comments europe
- In Rudy Giuliani’s Universe, 9/11 Is Everything and Nothing https://theintercept.com/2016/08/15/fact-check-911-happened/ 4 comments politics
- The Netherlands' Upcoming Money-for-Nothing Experiment: Next year, 250 residents in Utrecht and a few surrounding cities are slated to participate in a government program testing out a universal basic income. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/netherlands-utrecht-universal-basic-income-experiment/487883/ 4 comments economy
- Trump University Customer: 'Gold Elite' Program Nothing But Fool's Gold http://www.npr.org/2016/06/06/480948631/trump-university-customer-gold-elite-program-nothing-but-fools-gold 41 comments politics
- Trump Pledges To Make God Great Again Donald Trump gave a stump speech at Liberty University on Monday dotted with panders and swears but he received nothing but praise from the evangelical crowd. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/18/trump-pledges-to-make-god-great-again.html 35 comments politics
- Russia produces nothing - except when a Kazan startup provides a patient-robot and endosurgical simulator - to a Japanese medical university http://marchmontnews.com/Industry-Manufacturing/Volga/21468-Mid-Volga-robots-help-train-Japanese-surgeons.html 19 comments russia
- Bernie Sanders's great idea: Free public college education. Sanders is absolutely right. Nothing would do more to bring opportunity to young men and women throughout the nation than to make college education at public universities affordable to all. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/244462-bernie-sanderss-great-idea-free-public-college 1036 comments politics
- All or Nothing: The Medieval Problem of Universals [podcast] http://historyofphilosophy.net/problem-universals 5 comments philosophy
- A Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/a-mathematical-proof-that-the-universe-could-have-formed-spontaneously-from-nothing-ed7ed0f304a3?source=tw-lo_dnt_cf355ac5ea63-1419614799434 37 comments space
- A Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/a-mathematical-proof-that-the-universe-could-have-formed-spontaneously-from-nothing-ed7ed0f304a3 3 comments science
- Is All the Universe from Nothing? http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/05/22/is-all-the-universe-from-nothing/ 45 comments space
- A Mathematical Proof That The Universe Could Have Formed Spontaneously From Nothing https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/ed7ed0f304a3 6 comments science
- Why does the universe exist at all? Why not nothing? Fascinating article on a taxonomy of nothingness. http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/13-08-28/#feature 223 comments philosophy
- Europe's "Planck" research satellite has measured the residual radiation from the big bang with greater precision than ever before. The goal of the mission is to solve the mystery of whether the universe truly arose out of nothing. (xpost from r/Space) http://www.spiegel.de/international/planck-satellite-data-provides-baby-photo-of-the-universe-a-888355.html 3 comments europe
- Europe's "Planck" research satellite has measured the residual radiation from the big bang with greater precision than ever before. The goal of the mission is to solve the mystery of whether the universe truly arose out of nothing. http://www.spiegel.de/international/planck-satellite-data-provides-baby-photo-of-the-universe-a-888355.html#.uucqearrwn4.reddit 11 comments space
- David Albert's Review of Krauss' 'A Universe From Nothing' http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/a-universe-from-nothing-by-lawrence-m-krauss.html?_r=1 70 comments philosophy
- Do the laws of physics predict that the universe was spontaneously created from nothing? http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9672000/9672233.stm 7 comments askscience
- The Shame of College Sports: Schools and corporations exploit athletes—start paying them. -- The real scandal is the very structure of college sports, wherein student-athletes generate billions of dollars for universities and private companies while earning nothing for themselves. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/8643/ 6 comments politics
- The universe is made out of nothing? http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2011/06/the_big_nothing.html 43 comments science
- Stephen Hawking's upcoming book: "Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist" http://online.wsj.com/article/sb10001424052748704206804575467921609024244.html?mod=wsj_hps_lefttopstories 20 comments philosophy
- Whether you were born rich and the estate tax is reduced to virtually nothing, or you get legacy admissions into elite universities, there's a lot of history and self-perpetuation of the rich to continue to be rich that has nothing to do with hard work. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/04/mike_donahue_is_a_hard_worker.html 148 comments politics
- Glenn Beck says, "If you pay nothing, you're the one who has to serve in the military," and then Jon Stewart skullfucks his logic to another Universe http://tv.gawker.com/5516642/jon-stewart-exposes-the-medias-laughably-dishonest-tax+related-reporting 727 comments politics
- "I was there for the birth of my children. I was a fighter pilot. I went to Mir, I went to the ISS. But nothing compares to going outside for a spacewalk. Nothing compares to being alone in the Universe; to that moment of opening the hatch and pulling yourself outside into the Universe" http://www.universetoday.com/2010/03/16/spacewalking-through-an-astronauts-eyes/ 160 comments science
- An amazing talk about how the universe could have been created from nothing. http://richarddawkins.net/articles/4490 8 comments science
- If the Universe is 13.7 billion years old, and nothing can go faster than the speed of light, how is it that we see things that are 46.5 billion light years away? http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2009/07/the_size_of_the_universe_a_har.php 207 comments science