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http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict

Chris Eliasmith, a philosopher who studies cognitive science at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, edits the online reference encyclopedia Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind. The site’s ever-growing list of entries, which number over 200, currently runs from “abduction” (a kind of deductive reasoning) to “zombie” (a being that behaves like us but lacks conscious experiences).

http://www.aaas.org/spp/cstc/golden

In his capacity as special scientific consultant to President Harry S Truman, William T. Golden met many of the leading scientific and technology policy-makers of the time. Thanks to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Golden’s memoranda from 1950 to 1951 are available on the Web under the title Impacts of the Early Cold War on the Formulation of US Science Policy. NSF’s William Blanpied edited the volume.

http://www.crdf.org/Welcome.html

Created by the US government in 1995, the Civilian Research & Development Foundation promotes scientific and technological collaborations between the US and the countries of the former Soviet Union. The latest addition to the CRDF Web site is E-Update, an online newsletter whose inaugural issue includes an article about the future innovation and commercialization of science and technology in Russia.

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