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Using Google to Tell Real Science from Fads. Most hot ideas and discoveries fade with time.
But some scientific papers are genuine breakthroughs, whose importance only increases as the decades pass. This one, published in Science last week, which describes a database of words from millions of books digitized by Google—4 percent of all books ever printed—could be one of the big ones. It's a fabulous source of ideas and evidence for theories about society, and it's fabulously democratic. Google offers a handy analyzer, the Ngram Viewer, which anyone can use to test an idea. A case in point: Yesterday, the social psychologist Rob Kurzban argued that the tool can distinguish between genuine scientific theories and intellectual fads. Google's viewer graphs the proportion of books over time that contain any word or phrase. Like many social psychologists, Kurzban isn't impressed with the state of his own field.
That's quite a contrast to his map of big theories in psychology: Well, maybe. And here is the "Oedipus complex" since 1920: A dozen of the best start-up pitches on the Web One of the best ways to prepare yourself to pitch your company is to watch other people pitch theirs.
Here are a dozen of the best “start-up” pitches I could find (watching people pitch established companies is, in general, not as much fun ). Watch and learn! (PS Post any other good ones I may have missed in the comments and I will add them to the post.) #1 – Sam Altman pitches Loopt at the WWDC 2008. . #2 – Omar Hamoui pitches AdMob. $0 to $750 million in three years. . #3 – Evan Williams talks about Twitter at TED. . #4 – Yext presenting at this year’s TechCrunch50. . #5 – Cafe Press‘s “Lesson Learned” pitch. “Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch #6 – Drew Houston launches Dropbox at TechCrunch50 (2008).