Archive for the ‘ People ’ Category
At just over an hour this is an interesting interview with PZ Myers (he of Pharyngula fame). http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2011/06/09/bright-ideas-pz-myers[ READ MORE ]
Norman Ernest Borlaug 1914-2009. Who, you might ask, is Norman Borlaug? Norman Borlaug is responsible for saving millions of lives. He was a leader, if not the leader, in his field. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. He has worked in some of the poorest countries, all over the world. And [ READ MORE ]
I did do. Writing, it turns out is bloody hard. Not the trivial scribblings on this blog. These are easy. You see, they ‘do not matter’, they are simple, stream of conciousness tracts laid down as much for my own pleasure as for any passing reader. Don’t get me wrong, I do care enough to [ READ MORE ]
Interesting and lucid as ever, Carl Sagan is interviewed by Charlie Rose[ READ MORE ]
This is news so good I could not keep it to myself. Bill Gates recently bought the rights to a series of lectures by legendary Caltech physicist Richard Feynman. The former Microsoft head’s purchase shows that the cultural and scientific legacy of Feynman remains strong even 21 years after his death. The lectures, given in [ READ MORE ]
Image by Emilio Segre Visual Archives via Flickr Freeman Dyson once described Richard Feynman as ‘half-genius, half-buffoon’. He later revised this opinion to ‘all-genius, all-buffoon’. I cannot think of a better epitaph[ READ MORE ]
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