Biography Today: Scientists & Inventors Series : Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (Biography Today Scientists and Inventors Series)
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
“..What do Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Charlotte Bronte, Leonardo Da Vinci and Sir Isaac Newton all have in common? You guessed it! (Or perhaps you didn’t…) They were all vegetarians! As far back as the 6th century BC the famous Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras was advocating vegetarianism .. .. and many great minds since, including [...]
To God and my country (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
SPOOKY! Is Unknown Force In Universe Acting On Dark Matter? It is possible that a non-gravitational fifth force is ruling the dark matter with an invisible hand, leaving the same fingerprints on all galaxies, irrespective of their ages, shapes and sizes." Such a force might solve an even bigger mystery, known as 'dark energy', which is ruling the accelerated expansion of the Universe. A more radical...
The Official Site of Grant Miller. (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
An infinite number of monkeys randomly typing at an infinite number of typewriters could eventually reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare. But a few monkeys would secretly think it was Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare. An infinite number of monkeys randomly typing at an infinite number of typewriters could eventually reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare but they wouldn't...
Nature (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Robert Boyle's character is often obscured by the shadow of Isaac Newton, but a masterful biography reveals him as larger than life, explains Peter Anstey.
Llewtrah's Soapbox (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Larklight In which Art Mumby and his annoyingly ladylike sister Myrtle see their father captured by giant white spiders, are themselves rescued/captured by the piratical Jack Havock and his crew of assorted aliens and who must save known space from the spider menace. Our heroes race about the planets in their ships powered by Isaac Newton's alchemy and end up back on earth battling a giant robotic...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Sir Isaac Newton would be amazed by this awesome video, showing Saturn moons causing gravitational waves as they orbit near its F Ring. These images can only be taken every 15 years, during Saturn's equinox. Thankfully, Cassini is there now. In the video you can see Prometheus (in the inner side) and Pandora (on the outer side), disturbing and smoothing the rings one after the other, which is why...
Baristanet (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Montclair State University has released that their newest dorm will be called Frank Sinatra hall. MSU students were given the opportunity to name the new dorm by voting online. Frank Sinatra beat out Walt Whitman and Albert Einstein with a total of 506 votes. Other nominees that appeared on the survey were John Holland, George Inness, Alfred Kinsey, Doris Duke, Milton Freedman, Thomas Edison and Aaron...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
( University of Toronto ) Renowned University of Toronto physicist Richard Peltier has been chosen by the Franklin Institute to receive the 2010 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science. Peltier is the first Canadian to receive the $250,000 award and joins a group of previous recipients that includes Marie Curie, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
Europe 1700-1914 (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Above is Frederick the Great's palace of Sans Souci at Potsdam, built in the style known as Frederician rococo. The Enlightenment was a dramatic new moment in the history of western Europe, marking a new cultural divide. As Alexander Pope put it: Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, Let Newton be! and all was light. The beginning of the Enlightenment is difficult to determine. Scholars...
the brain police (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
There was this poker game with Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, Data and Stephen Hawking.... I guess I was a closet Trekkie for years...I used to watch Star Trek Next Generation religiously, but I never saw this episode!
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Photo of Thomas Edison with an electric car, 1913. Public domain. Sounds Familiar? The fundamental reasons why the electric car has not attained the popularity it deserves are (1) The failure of the manufacturers to properly educate the general public regarding the wonderful utility of the electric; (2) The failure of [power companies] to make it easy to own and operate the electric by an adequate...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
1. The inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were bitter rivals who each refused to share the prize or to accept it if the other recieved it first. In November 1915 it was reported they had won the Nobel Prize for Physics but, in fact, neither received the award
stroppyblog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Regular readers may have noticed that myself and Janine sometimes write posts on aspergers and we get frustrated at the often negative press. Well here is something positive : ... Clay Marzo, who exploded on to the scene at Puerto Escondido in Mexico last month with his first pro victory, and is now being dubbed the most naturally gifted surfer of his generation, has a high-functioning form of autism...
MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
"Without fanfare or ceremony, the most celebrated scientist in the country, Stephen Hawking, quietly stepped down this week from the most prestigious post in British physics. "Hawking's successor as Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University will be decided by committee this month, but as he moves on, leading physicists warn that Britain risks losing the next generation of...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
If you were asked to name the leading lights of Western philosophy down the ages, the following will, without doubt, feature prominently: Friedrich Nietzsche, George Santayana, Jean-Paul Sartre, Benedict de Spinoza, Arthur Schopenhauer, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, John Locke and David Hume. Any listing of great historians, novelists and...
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