Albert Einstein

Quote of the day: Albert Einstein on God

Bligbi (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

... in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” -Albert Einstein

His Dark Materials don't exist

Bearwatch (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

My theory: there is no such thing as dark matter, so the Large Hadron Collider won't find it. Albert Einstein found a better way to describe observable phenomena, and another Einstein will one day improve the theory to include the effects for which the existence of dark matter has been postulated.

18th Century Technology; 21st Century Problems

Settle It Now Negotiation Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008

LegalTED, coming soon to a conflict near you. In the meantime, I'm off to one of my two favorite cities in the entire world: Manhattan. In the meantime, I leave you in the capable hands of Albert Einstein. Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. Anyone who has never made a...

City eyes closure's effect on OB care

Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday

... able to find a hospital bed when they're in labor. She said other hospitals near Chestnut Hill - Albert Einstein Medical Center and Abington Memorial Hospital are the closest - will be able to absorb the 1,000 babies a year that Chestnut Hill Hospital has been delivering. "I believe at this point there is still capacity, but we're monitoring that very closely," said Maus, a Mount...

6 Techniques I’ve Used To Challenge Conventional Thinking

Unconventional Thinking (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

... trial-and-error. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” - Albert Einstein 3. Take a stand. A couple of years ago, I was leading a project that a senior executive didn’t agree with. He didn’t think the project could make an impact on the business. I believed that it would. We compromised, and he gave me 90 days to prove it. I did, and the executive...

High-Aptitude Minds: The Neurological Roots of Genius

Scientific American (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

Within hours of his demise in 1955, Albert Einstein’s brain was salvaged, sliced into 240 pieces and stored in jars for safekeeping. Since then, researchers have weighed, measured and otherwise inspected these biological specimens of genius in hopes of uncovering clues to Einstein’s spectacular intellect. Their cerebral explorations are part of a century-long effort to uncover...

In search of the next Carl Sagan

IOL (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

... four or five fellows per year - are the third named after famed scientists. Others are named after Albert Einstein and Edwin Hubble.When Sagan died in 1996 at age 62, only 11 exoplanets had been discovered."We're learning an enormous amount," said Charles Beichman, director of Nasa's Exoplanet Science Institute. "We know the rate of star formation. Ten years ago, we didn't know about...

• NASAs new Carl Sagan fellowship to study extraterrestrial worlds - Thaindian News
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Cows, Fruit Flies, and the Way to Safety (Interesting New Research)

Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

Scientific breakthroughs can be world-changing, as with Archimedes ’ bathtub moment—or so legend has it—leading to the discovery of the principle that bears his name, and that glorious flash when Albert Einstein intuited that space was curved. They can be, well, more subtly momentous, too. Thus it is with two recently announced discoveries, both having to do with animals and direction....

Technium joins the first global science park group

icWales (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008

Referred to as Germany’s science city, Ulm is the birthplace of Albert Einstein. For more than 25 years a close relationship has been maintained between the universities and enterprises in the region, which has seen the likes of Siemens, Nokia, Daimler begin their research and development in Ulm, helping to create around 80,000 jobs for the region. Jeju Development Centre is on Jeju island,...

Testing BlogJet

Shades of Grey (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com “Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein (The above text is just boilerplate, [...]

Stand Up 2 Cancer: Fight Virus And Fight Cancer

CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

... to previous viral infections," explained Dr. Dadachova.Dr. Ekaterina Dadachova is a researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City.It's believed some viruses alter the DNA of cells in our bodies, causing them to divide rapidly and relentlessly into tumors.Most cases of cervical cancer are caused by HPV the human papillomavirus.Hepatitis virus has been linked to...

Brochures

Ample Sanity (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." Albert Einstein An Assemblage of Words . Simple. Exquisite. Sad. Something wickedly wonderful: Chris Mars Publishing . An amusing Showbox news recap . Serge Seidlitz has mad skills. If you attended the Democratic National Convention and needed this , you have the intelligence of string and probably shouldn't be voting...

Regarding Education

Atlas Blogged (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008

To kick off the school year, I would like to share several quotes I find very insightful. Albert Einstein: Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.(source) Thomas Young, in a letter to his brother:...

Queercents introduces Ashley A. Wilson

Queercents (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

... 25 years experience in the field, working at such institutions as the Devereux Foundation, the Albert Einstein Healthcare Foundation and Fox Chase Cancer Center. She has a BS in Journalism from Temple University and an MS in Library and Information Science from Drexel University. Born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Ashley is a lifetime resident of the Delaware Valley and lives in the...

Pause to Wonder

Meandering Passage (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein © Earl Moore [...]