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No new elite world-class universities have been founded for at least 100 years (Stanford-1891; Rice-1912), and most of them are centuries older than that. Ben Nelson, former CEO of Snapfish, has just announced that he’s starting a new one, for-profit and online. The Minerva Project has scored $25 million, the biggest seed bet in Benchmark Capital’s history, for a projected 2014 launch. Nelson, improbably, has been a university-reform geek since his undergraduate days at Wharton, where he organized multidisciplinary courses and field trips.
Facebook changes privacy settings for millions of users – facial recognition is enabled | Naked Security
When Facebook revealed last year it was introducing facial recognition technology to help users tag their friends in photographs, they gave the functionality to North American users only. Most of the rest of us found the option in our privacy settings was "not yet available", which meant we could neither enable or disable it. We simply had to wait until Facebook decided to roll it out to our account. Well, now might be a good time to check your Facebook privacy settings as many Facebook users are reporting that the site has enabled the option in the last few days without giving users any notice.
“Authentic” is dead
When a company claims to “put customers first” but then uses “Level 1 support” as a shield to prevent customers from intruding on profits, we realize talk is cheap. When a company claims to have “secure” payments but then 100,000 credit card numbers are stolen, we realize you don’t need a permit to claim security. When a company claims to be “innovative and disruptive” but then pitches an idea you’ve heard ten times in the past month, it reminds us that if you have to say it, it’s probably untrue .
DeBord worked in Mercy Health Systems’ radiology department for approximately five years. She had a supervisor (Weaver) who the court describes as having “unusually cold hands.” Apparently the supervisor was in the habit of asking employees to “feel his hands.” He also “touch[ed their] upper arms or the back of their necks.” Not surprisingly, most employees did not react positively to Weaver’s conduct.
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Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace |
When I started my Ph.D. in Princeton, pure economic theory was king. Economists with stellar math skills were high in status and high in demand, even if their knowledge of the real world was... slight. In the following eighteen years, however, something big seems to have changed.
The Decline of Economic Theory, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Richard Feynman on pages 24 and 25 of his book “The Character of Physical Laws” describes how both gravitational and electrical forces are linked in terms of a common relationship with respect to the inverse square law. "The inverse square law appears again in the electrical laws, for instance, electricity also exerts forces inversely as the square of the distance, this time between charges, and one thinks perhaps that the inverse square of distance has some deep significance. No one has ever succeeded in making electricity and gravity different aspects of the same thing." Later he talks about the ratio of gravitational attraction to electrical repulsions: "The ratio of the gravitational attraction to electrical repulsions is given by a number with 42 digits tailing off.
The Imagineer's Chronicles
Science starts, and ends, with the natural world, the one we can consistently sense, the big mystery of whateverness, this ether, that we swim in. Everything in a science class should get back to stuff and energy. If it's not grounded in the stuff of the world, it's not science. The only stuff a child can truly know through her senses is the stuff she walks on, the stuff she breathes, the warm blush of sunshine on her face, the whiff of cherry blossoms blooming too early.