Posts Tagged ‘Stephen Hawking’

JAN. 8, 1942: BIRTHDAY OF A FIRST-RATE MIND, AND A MEDICAL MARVEL

Friday, January 8, 2010 5:00

1942: British physicist Stephen Hawking is born. Hawking was born in Oxford, where his parents moved to escape the German Blitz on London. His website notes, in an interesting historical aside, that his birth came on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death. Though naturally predisposed to mathematics, young Hawking switched to physics, ...

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THEMSELVES: CROWNSDOWN

Thursday, December 24, 2009 14:29

By: Dennis Cook This is like an inoculation against crap hip-hop, something percolated on a hot plate in a tiny room festooned with the flotsam & jetsam of the genre's decades long gestation. As beat boxes and turntables ...

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JACK WHITE TURNS DOWN SLASH, RELEASES CARL SAGAN AUTO-TUNE RECORD

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 17:45

Jack White and Slash may both be indisputable modern rock guitar heroes, but a possible collaboration between the two was recently nixed by White, according to a MusicRadar interview with Slash. (Via NME.) "I wanted to get ...

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PARIS HILTON’S WORDS OF WISDOM FIND PLACE IN OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS!

Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:08

Paris Hilton has found a place in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. The socialite’s remark, “Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in,” has been included in the updated edition of the dictionary, reports the Sun. The 28-year-old hotel heiress, infamous for being a party animal, has been ...

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FINAL FRONTIER: CROWD SEES SPACESHIP LAUNCHER FLY

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:05

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Hundreds of earthlings turned their faces to the sky Monday to see an airplane built to launch a ship into space, watching the gleaming white craft soar overhead. The twin-fuselage craft named WhiteKnightTwo, looking like two planes connected at the wing tips, circled the runway several ...

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TAD DALEY: APOLLO OR EXTINCTION

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 22:26

This period, where we hold this capability to destroy ourselves but before we have found a way to save ourselves, might be called the human race's ultimate "window of vulnerability."

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