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Lawrence M. Krauss
Director, Arizona State University Origins Project
Lawrence Maxwell Krauss is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist who is a professor of physics, and the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing. He is an advocate of scientific skepticism, science education, and the science of morality. Krauss is one of the few living physicists referred to by Scientific American as a "public intellectual", and he is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major U.S. physics societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics.
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All new technology is frightening, says physicist Lawrence Krauss. But there are many more reasons to welcome machine consciousness than to fear it.
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"Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking," says professor and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. "And therefore what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers, but questions."
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Lawrence Krauss describes quantum computing and the technical obstacles we need to overcome to realize this Holy Grail of processing.
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Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the different types of nothing. Or something.
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The last thing we want to do is water down the teaching of biology because some people don’t recognize that evolution happened.
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Lawrence Krauss argues for differential pay scales for teachers with advanced training in science and math to accommodate the free market.
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The physicist on the spiritual consolations of realizing we’re probably unique in the universe, and not part of some greater plan.