You want some popcorn?

I wouldn't even open up the popcorn bag.

The popcorn is illustrating a key thing in physics.

Popcorn and two sodas.

Now watch closely. This is popcorn. I'll explain it here.

That's what's happening to the water inside that popcorn.

When watching a musical, you don't eat popcorn.

From Karl Popper to Karl Rove and Back

That's where the popcorn business comes in. Buy it to plug your ears.

I made popcorn. Actually, I burned one, so I made two.

But, of course, if you were in the ocean, this popcorn wouldn't be sitting here waiting for you to eat it.

My son calls this making popcorn while listening to a badly tuned A.M. station.

I watch out for him, and you're gonna watch out for him, or you'll be right on the beach selling' popcorn.

Generally, ceviches are served with fried plantain (chifles y patacones), popcorn, or tostado.

Then one remembers that Popper was writing in the final years of World War II.

He surrounded himself with an entourage of young, unknown scholars like Martin Buber and Shai Agnon and Franz Kafka, and he paid each one of them a monthly salary so that they could write in peace.

NEW YORK The European Union was brought into existence by what Karl Popper called piecemeal social engineering.

Instead, you'd actually have to be swimming through this entire volume Willy Wonka style, picking off individual kernels of popcorn, or perhaps if you were lucky, getting a hold of a few small clumps.

Or, as Karl Popper put it, truth is never definitive and error is always probable.

Karl Popper s approach to politics, one of reason and critical discourse, had come to prevail.

Foreign born philosophers who settled in the UK include Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx, Karl Popper and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Situational analysis (or Situational logic) is a concept advanced by Popper in his The Poverty of Historicism.

In addition to physicists, Austria was the birthplace of two of the most noteworthy philosophers of the 20th century, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper.

Then one remembers that Popper was writing in the final years of World War II. Looking around the world in 2004, you begin to understand Popper's motive freedom always means living with risk, but without security, risk means only threats, not opportunities.

The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber after the Holocaust talked of this terrible propensity of turning our opponents into things

Popper failed to recognize that in democratic politics, gathering public support takes prece dence over the pursuit of truth.

We must abandon Popper s tacit assumption that political discourse aims at a better understanding of reality and reintroduce it as an explicit requirement.

Karl Popper defined democracy in contrast to dictatorship or tyranny, thus focusing on opportunities for the people to control their leaders and to oust them without the need for a revolution.

The title of this journal was inspired by that given to a collection of essays by Landauer, which his friend, the philosopher Martin Buber, published in 1921.

The truth to quote Popper again is that we must go on into the unknown, the uncertain and insecure, come what may.

Many White House speechwriters have used that rhetoric, but almost no First Ladies have walked the talk and passed the popcorn.

The integration process was spearheaded by a small group of farsighted statesmen who subscribed to open society principles and practiced what Karl Popper called piecemeal social engineering.

Looking around the world in 2004, you begin to understand Popper's motive freedom always means living with risk, but without security, risk means only threats, not opportunities.

So what should we do? Perhaps we should look at Popper again and remember his advice to use what reason we have to tackle our insecurities.

That fact casts doubt on Karl Popper s concept of open society, which is based on the recognition that, while perfect knowledge is unattainable, we can gain a better understanding of reality by engaging in critical thinking.

Destroy that and you destroy the hallmarks of liberal order. As the great political philosopher Karl Popper argued, the only thing that we should not tolerate in an open society is intolerance.

Part of the problem, I think, is that we imagine that the Koran can be read as we usually read a book as though we can curl up with it on a rainy afternoon with a bowl of popcorn within reach, as though God and the Koran is entirely in the voice of God speaking to Muhammad were just another author on the bestseller list.

I have often wondered why Karl Popper ended the dramatic peroration of the first volume of his Open Society and Its Enemies with the sentence We must go on into the unknown, the uncertain and insecure, using what reason we have to plan for both security and freedom.