Archive for October, 2006
NASA’s Discovery Mission Dawn is set to explore the conditions and processes of our solar system’s earliest history. There’s sure to be a great deal of excitement, danger and discovery as Mission Dawn approaches our solar system’s two largest protoplanets Ceres and Vesta.
And NASA wants you aboard!
For the next four days, you can have your name stored in the memory… Continue reading
Researchers at Ohio State University and the University of Auckland have found what some may refer to as the Perfect Collegiate Rational. Professors Matthew Durning and Margaret Kalev-Zylinska found that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol - amounts equivalent to three drinks per day for a person - improved the memories of laboratory rats.
Now before you run out to the party store to buy a half-barrel… Continue reading
Looks like the team at Automattic has transmitted ‘cease and desist’ emails to web sites having ‘wordpress’ in the domain name. How do I know this? It was the first story on my WP dashboard this morning! Seems as though Lorelle on WP felt compelled to speak on behalf of the WP developers. She cited a story at Blogging Pro that quotes from a… Continue reading
eBusiness - Entrepreneurship - Finance - Marketing - Law - Economics - Management
So much valuable insight here I’ll stop selling it right now.
America’s industrial revolution generated economic and social gains unparallelled in recorded human history. Vast supplies of natural resources including fossil fuels, low-cost labor, and the inventiveness of 19th century businessmen served to ignite and drive industrial development.
Efficiency was the goal and men the likes of Gillette, Hoover, Hughes, Ford and Otis invented devices and processes that helped people become more productive in their daily lives. People could travel farther in… Continue reading
