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Category Archives: Interesting
Silicon Valley’s secret rock star
How cool is this? Offices are full of people with past lives — and for more than two decades James Williamson kept his a secret. Before retiring last year, Williamson was the vice president of technology standards at Sony Electronics, … Continue reading
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Strike Three for the Massachusetts?
First it catches on fire in the middle of Boston Harbor. Next, it is hit by another commuter boat while I am onboard. Today, while on a whale watch with my family, we see this near Deer Island in Boston … Continue reading
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Massachusetts Students Outperform Peers on International Exam
Yay Mass! I have been very happy with our schools in Scituate, MA. though I do wish they had more programs for gifted students. Massachusetts students significantly outperformed their peers on a prestigious international math and science exam, according to … Continue reading
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Brian May, Legendary Guitarist from Queen, Publishes His Thesis
From /.: A year ago we took note when Brian May, guitarist for Queen for the last 30 years, submitted his thesis for a Ph.D. in astrophysics. The news now is that the thesis has been published. You, too, can … Continue reading
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Fight Club: the Return of Hobbes
Very interesting (and fairly brilliant) comparison of Fight Club to Calvin and Hobbes. Flash forward to the timeframe depicted in Fight Club. Calvin/Jack has reached an all-time low. He has done everything society has told him to do but is … Continue reading
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Changes to Scarry's "Best Word Book Ever"
When I was a kid, my favorite book was Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever. The book was originally published in 1963, a few years before I was born. The pictures were beautifully drawn, there were lots of interesting little … Continue reading
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Is The MBA Overrated?
Interesting article in Business Week: BusinessWeek research has found that fewer than one out of three executives who reach those lofty heights do so with the help of an MBA. And if you think a sheepskin from a top school … Continue reading
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What media bias?
This is ridiculous… This sort of thing is why I stopped watching TV news years ago. P.S. Go Ron!
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The Best Thought Experiments
From Wired.com: 2. Schrödinger’s cat A cat is trapped in a box with radioactive material, a Geiger counter, and a mechanism rigged to release poison if particle decay is detected. According to Erwin Schrödinger, the cat exists in two probable … Continue reading
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Useless Body Parts
Interesting article on body parts we could live without… In the first chapter of The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin identified roughly a dozen anatomic traits that he gleefully described as “useless, or nearly useless, and consequently no longer subject … Continue reading
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