Timelines of History Trailblazing The story of the Royal Society is the story of modern science. Our origins lie in a 1660 ‘invisible college’ of natural philosophers and physicians. Today we are the UK’s national science academy and a Fellowship of some 1,600 of the world’s most eminent scientists. Nullius in verba The very first ‘learned society’ meeting on 28 November 1660 followed a lecture at Gresham College by Christopher Wren. The Royal Society's motto 'Nullius in verba' is taken to mean 'take nobody's word for it'. Advancements and adventure The early years of the Society saw revolutionary advancements in the conduct and communication of science. We published Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, and Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment demonstrating the electrical nature of lightning. The leading scientific lights of the past four centuries can all be found among the 8,000 Fellows elected to the Society to date. Independence
History's Most influential people ranked by wiki reach This article was taken from the November 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. This infographic reveals the world's most influential people, born before 1950, using data from all language editions of Wikipedia. "It shows you how the world perceives your own national culture," says César Hidalgo, head of the Media Lab's Macro Connections group, who researched the data. "It's a socio-cultural mirror." Rankings are based on parameters such as the number of language editions in which that person has a page, and the number of people known to speak those languages (L/BN). Using this quantitative approach, Hidalgo is now testing hypotheses such as whether cultural development is structured or random. View the full-size image in our gallery
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Inequality Is History {{Hatnote}}: Listen to Wikipedia It’s been a little quiet on the Hatnote blog since the launch of RCMap, but today’s post puts an end to that. After a recent NPR/TED broadcast on the nature of collaboration gave a voice to real-time editing, we couldn’t help but try it out, too. So, without further ado, Listen to Wikipedia. (Tune your speakers/headphones accordingly.) Bells are additions, strings are subtractions. There’s something reassuring about knowing that every user makes a noise, every edit has a voice in the roar. Apart from being a hopefully-pleasant audiation, Listen to Wikipedia (L2W) also addresses a couple other inquiries we’ve gotten more than a few times: Whereas RCMap only displays anonymous edits, L2W presents all edits to the main namespace in real time, with special handling for new-user signups for good measure.L2W uses color a bit differently, too. Listen to Wikipedia was written by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi, and is open-source. –Stephen and Mahmoud