I look up to this man so much. The title of this 60 Minutes is appropriate given the tumultuous past of Bill Gates as a person in the history of tech. He was once hated by many for his business practices and in-your-face management technique, but today, he is a different man. Older, wiser, and more driven [...]
New research reported in Scientific American suggests that men and women really can’t “just be friends”. The results suggest large gender differences in how men and women experience opposite-sex friendships. Men were much more attracted to their female friends than vice versa. Men were also more likely than women to think that their opposite-sex friends [...]
Box after box after box of fungi at Kew Gardens’ internationally renown botanical research institution.
I’m not paid by Forbes to say this, but if you have a chance, you should try and pick up the current issue of Forbes Magazine. It’s the one with Bill Gates on the cover (see above) and the cover story is about the 70 most powerful people in the world. But really, the cover [...]
This is pretty remarkable to sift through. The Smithsonian has put online their massive Smithsonian Wild image collection which includes many camera traps used by scientists and researchers to study animals in their natural habitat with the least amount of human interference. The collection is divided very intelligently with animal categories and whole projects — [...]
If you are truly bored at the computer, you can head on over to The New York Times website and play a game of rock, paper, scissors with a computer. If you play at the Veteran level, the computer takes into account about 200,000 previously played rock, paper, scissors games and uses that information to [...]
