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Stephen Hawking personal effects fetch 1.8m at auction
2018-11-08 23:07:13| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A copy of the physicist's signed PhD thesis sells for 584,750, nearly four times the guide price.
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Stephen Hawking, Renowned Physicist, Dies at Age 76
2018-03-14 18:27:39| Extremetech
Stephen Hawking, renowned physicist, disability advocate, and one of the smartest people on the planet has died at the age of 76. The post Stephen Hawking, Renowned Physicist, Dies at Age 76 appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Stephen Hawking: AI Could Be the Worst Event in the History of Civilization
2017-11-08 14:58:28| Extremetech
Stephen Hawking believes that AI could be the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity that we've ever encountered. The scary thing is, he could be right. The post Stephen Hawking: AI Could Be the Worst Event in the History of Civilization appeared first on ExtremeTech.
Stephen Hawking, 375 scientists slam Trump for threatening to abandon Paris climate accord
2016-09-21 19:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Earlier this year, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sparked the ire of scientists and climate activists when he vowed to cancel the Paris climate agreement once in office. Now, hundreds of U.S. scientists, including famed physicist Stephen Hawking, have addressed this threat in an open letter warning of the perils of such action. Signed by 375 members of the National Academy of Sciences, the letter explicitly refers to the Republican nominee for President and notes that such a...
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Stephen Hawking has a stark warning for what Brexit could mean for the human species
2016-07-29 22:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: Stephen Hawking has penned a thoughtful appeal for post-Brexit Britain to reconsider the role that wealth plays in society, warning that isolationism and envy could even lead to the end of the human species. In a Guardian essay, the world-renowned physicist made the case for a more comprehensive and generous definition of wealth "to include knowledge, natural resources and human capacity." Noticing that we're living in "perilous times," Hawking lists all the multiple challenges that the planet...