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The doomsday argument (DA), or Carter catastrophe, is a probabilistic argument that claims to predict the future population of the human species based on an estimation of the number of humans born to date. The doomsday argument was originally proposed by the astrophysicist Brandon Carter in 1983, [1] leading to the initial name of the Carter ...
Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, photographed at the Peninsula Hotel in New York City, NY.
The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (formerly known as the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution or S-CAR) [4] is a constituent college of George Mason University based near Washington, D.C., United States, specializing in peace and conflict studies with locations in Arlington, Fairfax, and Lorton, Virginia, as well as at the Mason Korea campus in ...
On March 1, 1972, Carter said he might call a special session of the general assembly if the Justice Department struck down any reapportionment plans by either the House or Senate. [82] He pushed several reforms through the legislature, providing equal state aid to schools in Georgia's wealthy and poor areas, setting up community centers for ...
Jimmy Carter, who served a single full presidential term without the chance to appoint a Supreme Court justice, nonetheless left behind an incomparable judicial legacy.
Carter earned a BA at the University of Kent at Canterbury, a MA at the University of Sussex and a DPhil at St Cross College at the University of Oxford. Carter's first academic position was lecturer in political theory at University College Dublin. He then became head of the Philosophy Department at Heythrop College, University of London.
An April 20, 1979, White House photo of Carter and a rabbit from the Carter Library. (Jimmy Carter Library) But the Washington Post turned it into a front-page scandal of sorts, headlining its ...
The 1981 State of the Union address was delivered by President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, to the 97th United States Congress in written format on January 16, 1981. [1] In this address, Carter discussed economic issues as well as the Iranian hostage crisis. [1] Carter began his speech with: The State of the Union is ...