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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
( Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ) A pediatric immunologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has received a prestigious annual award from the American Philosophical Society, an organization founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin. Jordan S. Orange, M.D., Ph.D., received the Society's Judson Daland Prize on Nov. 13 for his contributions to research and treatment of inherited immune deficiency...
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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 [...]
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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...
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Right Angles (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Benjamin Franklin is often credited with saying that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Whether it was Franklin, or Albert Einstein, or Homer Simpson, it applies to the federal government. Giving mortgages for people who couldn’t pay them back is what helped fuel the [...]
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Gristmill (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
by Jeff Biggers In his speech at the U.N. Summit on Climate Change today, President Barack Obama admonished world leaders that their nations “cannot allow the old divisions that have characterized the climate debate for so many years to block our progress.” Yet, during this week-long summit to lay the groundwork for the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December, as world leaders...
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Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
( Virginia Tech ) Arun Phadke and James Thorp, recipients of the 2008 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering and members of the National Academy of Engineering, have developed a number of advances that strengthen the electric utility industry's ability to prevent power grid blackouts, or to make them less intense and easier to recover from. Newly funded work will advance technologies that...
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The Scientific Indian (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
A celebration of human ingenuity through the life of Benjamin Franklin by Maira Kalman at And the Pursuit of Happiness . Read the comments on this post...
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Chase me, ladies, I'm in the cavalry (Free subscription) | 08/13/2009
How is it that NASA can put Americans on the moon, while in this country Sainsburys cannot even make a soup container that doesn’t explode like a ^#&*ing hand grenade when you open it? As I type this, with tomato pulp all down my new suit, I do not love my country any less. But we have to be honest about our failings. As Benjamin Franklin said, the true patriot is the man who complains all...
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xtnyoda (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
Friday, July 10th. Today's cherished Nugget from guest blogger Pastor Bill. “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” (Benjamin Franklin, 1706–1790) We quickly become aware of the value of water, air, and food when none is available or the supply is limited. The same can be said of the energy we use, for instance gasoline, diesel, or electricity. This has been demonstrated...
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