Word: acceptibility
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...center serving kids age nine to 19," he says. "The focus is on Area 4 but we accept members from any part of the city...
...says TIME religion correspondent David Van Biema. "As difficult as that notion may be for some people to engage, it's an important and reasonable topic for discussion. A ruling that excludes Irving from the realm of legitimate historical scholarship creates more space for serious discussion among academics who accept the basic truths of the Holocaust, but who're asking important questions about the ways in which its legacy may be used or misused...
...possibly forever. But this view is, to use your word, ahistorical, based on faulty inductive logic. In fact, inductive logic suggests that the modern era of explosive scientific progress might be an anomaly, a product of a singular convergence of social, intellectual and political factors. If you accept this, then the only question is when, not if, science will reach its limits. The American historian Henry Adams observed almost a century ago that science accelerates through a positive-feedback effect. Knowledge begets more knowledge; power begets more power. This so-called acceleration principle has an intriguing corollary: If science...
HOFFMAN: Of course, I accept that science has limits--and may even be up against them in some fields. But I believe there is still room for science, even on its grandest scale, that awe-inspiring discoveries will continue to be made over this millennium. The mathematician Ronald Graham once said, "Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions." Sounds reasonable, except when...
...followed him had been doomed to failure before they began. Yet if anything, learning that their task was impossible spurred perpetual-motion fanatics on to even greater efforts. So many hopefuls continued to apply for perpetual-motion patents that in 1911 the U.S. Patent Office decreed it would henceforth accept working models only--and they had to work for a year to qualify. No one has pulled...