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Review of Jim Holt's Why Does the World Exist?

Michael Roth | Posted 04.13.2013 | Books
Read More: Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist, Books, Book Reviews, Philosophy, Existentialism, Books News
Michael Roth

Why do we lose those we love? Why do important parts of our world vanish? These are not questions for a detective story, existential or not. But they are the questions to which, in the end, Holt's wonderfully ambitious book leads us.

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Why Does the World Exist?

Glyn Vincent | Posted 10.28.2012 | Books
Read More: Aristotle, Metaphysics, Descartes, Big Bang, Cosmology, Richard Swinburne, David Deutsch, Democritus., Hegel, Steven Weinberg, Jim Holt, Universe, Books News
Glyn Vincent

In Jim Holt's lively, bestselling book, Why Does The World Exist?, the author informs us the very phrase, Big Bang, was coined by a cosmologist, Sir Fred Hoyle, who disagreed with the conception of a universe-creating explosion.

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NJ Man Gets Out Of Paying $19,000 Back In Benefits

NJ.com | Posted 10.06.2012 | Home
Read More: Jim Holt, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment, Jim Holt Unemployment Benefits, Home News

Jim Holt is off the hook for $19,295. After collecting 19 months of unemployment benefits, the checks suddenly stopped coming. When he asked why, ...

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