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Einstein Inc.

Albert Einstein is big business. Walk into any science museum store and you’ll find Einstein magnets, posters, spoons, books, CDs, finger puppets and dolls—all offered for a price. For the second year running, Forbes ranked Albert Einstein fifth on the ...

From MICHAEL ABRAMS, Discover,  4 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Albert Einstein,  Bill Gates,  Rudolph Valentino,  Sigmund Freud,  Microsoft Corporation

82. Fossils of a 300-Million-Year-Old Forest Found

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,” Robert Frost wrote when moved by the sight of a contemporary forest. But a coal mine in Illinois has revealed woods that, if not lovelier, are certainly darker and deeper—and a good bit older. “You can walk in a ...

From MICHAEL ABRAMS, Discover,  14 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Robert Frost

99. Who Shrunk the Dogs Down

Chihuahuas, Boston terriers, and Pomeranians have this much in common: They’re tiny. Part of what makes them that way is the mutation of a single gene called insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1), according to a group of researchers from the University ...

From MICHAEL ABRAMS, Discover,  14 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Cornell University

93. Andean Crops Cultivated Almost 10,000 Years Ago

Archaeologists have long thought that people in the Old World were planting, watering, weeding, and harvesting for a good 5,000 years before anyone in the New World did such things. But fresh evidence, in the form of Peruvian squash seeds, indicates ...

From MICHAEL ABRAMS, Discover,  14 Jan 2008

80. Robots Evolve And Learn How to Lie

Robots can evolve to communicate with each other, to help, and even to deceive each other, according to Dario Floreano of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Floreano and his colleagues outfitted robots ...

From MICHAEL ABRAMS, Discover,  13 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Intelligent Systems Corp.

75. Stone-Age Asteroid May Have Wiped Out Life in America

Some 13,000 years ago, the Clovis people wandered North America, hunting ground sloths, mammoths, and other creatures—until hunters and prey both vanished. What happened? A team of scientists now think they know: A miles-wide comet, they announced in ...

From MICHAEL ABRAMS, Discover,  13 Jan 2008

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