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More Making, Less Financeering
There’s a nice profile (abstract here) of the British inventor James Dyson in the Sep 20, ’10 issue of the New Yorker. His eponymous vacuum cleaner has made him vastly wealthy (~$1.5B) for a refreshing reason – it’s a better … Continue reading
The Modern Alexandria?
What modern city would match Hypatia‘s Alexandria? Not in the sense of being filled with murderous mobs, of course, but in terms of being a main repository of knowledge.
Two Recent Science Movies You Probably Didn’t Get To See
… unless you live in an ultra-blue city. They are Creation, about what made Darwin finish “On the Origin of Species”, and Agora, about the tragic end of the one of the last great intellectuals of the Classical era, Hypatia of … Continue reading
A Niche in the Library of Babel 