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7 stories to read this weekend
gigaom.com
As you might know, I am on a bit of a “staycation.” As a result, I am spending less time in front of the computer. However, I do read a lot these days — both on and offline. Here are some stories you might find enjoyable. Ksenia Sobchak, the Stiletto...
Bose-Einstein condensate created at room temperature
arstechnica.com
Aluminum-Nitrogen nanowires, relatives of the ones used in these experiments. NIH Bose-Einstein condensation is a dramatic phenomenon in which many particles act as though they were a single entity. The first Bose-Einstein condensate produced in the laboratory used rubidium atoms at very cold temperatures—work that was awarded the 2001 Nobel...
Einstein Archives website rolls out first phase of project to get 80,000 documents online
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Believe it or not, there are still things that have yet to be put on the internet. That has included most of Albert Einstein's archives, a portion of which has previously been available, but which now has a greatly expanded online presence courtesy of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
Geek Madness: Nikola Tesla named greatest geek after trouncing Torvalds
www.geekwire.com
Nikola Tesla trounced Linus Torvalds for the Geek Madness Championship. The Champ. Alternating current. X-rays. Robotics. Wireless communication. Particle beam weapons. The radio. The remote control. The electric motor. Must we go on? These were all birthed from the great mind of Nikola Tesla, and today, GeekWire readers have handed...
Apple's 'Think Different' man likes Samsung's ad campaign
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Apple is like Obama after the first debate, says TBWA\Chiat\Day's former creative director FORTUNE -- Ken Segall worked with Steve Jobs for 14 years, during which time he put the i in iMac and found the thread that links Albert Einstein and Amelia Earhart. But though he no longer works...
Remembering WEIZAC: the beginning of computing in Israel
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Israel is now one of the world’s tech powerhouses, second only to Silicon Valley as a hub for startups, but it wasn’t always this way. Today, in honour of the 84th birthday of Professor Aviezri Fraenkel, we’re delighted to share a short film sharing his story of working on the...
Geek Madness Sweet 16: Torvalds trounces Musk; Darwin vs. Tesla showdown awaits
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Editor’s Note: Geek Madness is our quest to find the greatest geek of all time Geek Madness is moving right along and the final four geeks on the technology side of the bracket are set in stone. We now have some epic Elite Eight games coming, including a showdown between Bill Gates and Alan...
Heroes of Science: action figures we'd love to buy
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Popular sci-fi action figures line store shelves by the dozens, but you won't find real scientists next to Jedi Knights and Klingons. That’s where the Heroes of Science action figures come in. The collection of famous scientists — totalling 30 in all — is based on real Star Trek...
Famous Quotes Co-opted and Botched by Girls You Hated in High School Now Account for 10% of Pinterest Traffic
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Inspirational. (Photo: Pinterest) Even if you’re not a Pinterest power user, only navigating to the site occasionally on Sunday nights when you feel like you’ve read the entire Internet, you’ve undoubtedly noticed. Pictures of gaudy, elaborate nail art, 18th century European castles and Olivia Palermo (Pinterest’s official spirit animal) are interspersed with...
Famous Quotes Co-opted and Botched by Girls You Hated in High School Now Account for 10% of Pinterest Traffic
Vote for the Geek Madness Final Four: Turing vs. Torvalds; Einstein vs. Tesla
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Geek Madness Final Four, clockwise from top left: Alan Turing, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Linus Torvalds. Editor’s Note: Geek Madness is our quest to find the greatest geek of all time The Final Four teams of the 2013 NCAA men’s basketball tournament will battle Saturday afternoon. But more importantly, four of the world’s most epic...
Changemakrs Looks To Reinvent Inspirational Quotes For A More Social Web
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“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.” — Steve Jobs A few months ago, former Facebooker Sacha Tueni and Matthias Wagner were working on a Twitter client. Yes, a Twitter client — several years...
Qwotebook founder wants to be the Bartlett’s of the blogosphere
venturebeat.com
In its day, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, first published in 1855, was an impressive accomplishment. Thousands of quotes were traced back to their authors, and the results combined into a hardbound meta-book of human wisdom, wit, and sloganeering. Today, Internet entrepreneur Drew Olanoff is trying to create the modern version: A crowdsourced,...
25 Things About Laura Yecies
allthingsd.com
Laura Yecies knows a thing or two about making things run — as a masters candidate in foreign services at Georgetown, her thesis instructor was Madeline Albright. As a Harvard MBA, she started at Informix and spent time at Netscape, Yahoo and Check Point. And as CEO, she currently runs...
A Broken System: Einstein Wouldn't Have Been 'Qualified' To Teach High School Physics
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We've argued for years that many professions that require certain forms of "licensing" are often more about restricting supply. That's not say those who set up the licensing effort didn't have the best of intentions, but the end effect often doesn't actually do much to benefit the public. I'm reminded...
TIME Names Steve Jobs One Of The 20 Most Influential Americans Of All Time (AAPL)
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TIME's list of the 20 most influential Americans of all time is out now. Steve Jobs makes the list along with George Washington, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and Henry Ford. We can't help but notice how most of the people on the list are innovators in science and technology. Very cool....
Enhanced Campaigns: Google's Grand Unification Theory
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Early last century, Albert Einstein turned the world of established physics upside down when he introduced his theories of special and general relativity. Newton’s Laws, which had successfully driven the work of physicists for hundreds of years, were usurped by Einstein’s new theories.... Please visit Search Engine Land for the...
Qwotebook Launches to Track Top Quotes from Friends, Famous Quotables
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How many times have you logged on to Twitter and seen somebody note in a tweet: "OH", standing for "Overheard"? Some of these "Overheard"s are a doozy. But with Twitter's ephemeral nature, they fade as time moves on. Now, there's a site that aims to capture all the top quotes,...
Tenfold increase in scientific research papers retracted for fraud
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Study of 2,047 papers on PubMed finds that two-thirds of retracted papers were down to scientific misconduct, not errorThe proportion of scientific research that is retracted due to fraud has increased tenfold since 1975, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of how research papers go wrong.The study, published on...
Teen Solves Quantum Entanglement Problem for Fun
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World’s Most Wired Teenager Ari Dyckovsky Ari Dyckovsky at his home in Leesburg, Virginia, 30 miles west of Washington, D.C. Ari Dyckovsky was 15 when some Bose-Einstein condensate hit him right between the eyes. It didn’t really hit him between the eyes. That’s just a metaphor. But metaphors are...
laughingsquid: Photos From The Day Albert Einstein Died The...
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laughingsquid: Photos From The Day Albert Einstein Died The picture of Dr. Thomas Harvey with that brain is a bit odd....
Astronomers have found the largest structure in the universe
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An international team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire in the UK has discovered "the largest known structure in the universe." The team says that the recently observed large quasar group — comprised of dozens of highly energetic star-like objects — has a typical size of...
And Here You Have It, Ladies and Gentlemen, E=MC2 and Other Einstein Archive Treasures
www.theatlantic.com
The joy of the Internet, friends. Earlier today the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the California Institute of Technology unveiled a new online repository of 2,000 high-resolution scans from their collected manuscripts of Albert Einstein. Among them, this scribble:...
Judge Rejects Einstein Publicity Rights Claim... By Playing Dice With The Law
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A couple years ago, we wrote about Hebrew University suing GM for using an image of Albert Einstein in an ad without first getting permission (i.e., paying up). Einstein left his assets to Hebrew University (of which he was a founder and a big supporter), and Hebrew University has taken...
Handsome Quotebook for iPad holds all your favorite proverbs and adages
www.theverge.com
Quotebook isn't meant to be an app you use every day. It's meant to be perfect when you need it, like all the times you wish you remembered that astute Albert Einstein quote. Quotebook doesn't ship filled with quotes but instead challenges you to type out a collection of...
Marissa Mayer Offers Five Tips For Young Women Entering Tech (GOOG)
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Last week, Google VP Marissa Mayer said that she didn't believe in burnout -- after all, Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein spent long hours on the job and never suffered from burnout. Today in an interview with BuzzFeed, she offered five tips for young women -- or anybody else...
Steve Jobs joins George Washington, others in TIME's most influential Americans list
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Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was named one of the 20 most influential people in American history according to a TIME feature released on Tuesday, and sits alongside the likes of George Washington, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein....
Geek Madness: Help us pick the greatest geek of all time
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Is one of these legends the Greatest Geek of All Time? Today marks the beginning of the 2013 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Hundreds of thousands around the country have meticulously filled out their 64-team brackets in hopes perfectly predicting all 63 games and winning a money-filled office pool in the...
It doesn't take Einstein to find fault with a story - that's a sub's job
www.guardian.co.uk
One of my former Sunday Times colleagues, Liz Gerard, has just resuscitated her blog, SubScribe. It's a must for those who wonder what sub-editors do and why they do it. Her piece, "A little knowledge", on a short story that appeared in several newspapers about 16-year-old Lauren Marbe's score of...
Booting Up: Media Mogul Board Member Edition
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Future Twitterer? (Photo: flickr.com/whatcounts) Twitter is reportedly hunting in Hollywood for new board members, with an eye to installing a “media player.” A leading contender: former News Corp. exec Peter Chernin. [AllThingsD] Eric Schmidt, on iOS 6 mapageddon: “We think it would have been better if they had kept ours....
Gustave Field obituary
www.guardian.co.uk
Gustave Field, who has died aged 95, was a Hollywood screenwriter who in 1958 was lured to London by the fledgling television company ABC to help aspiring TV dramatists build in motivation, suspense and other Hollywood virtues. His successes included Alun Owen, Ray Rigby, and Harold Pinter, whose A Night...
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