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Essay - In Physics, Finding Meaning in the Quest to Know Our Origins - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-30
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The classic answer was allegedly given long ago by Michael Faraday, who, when asked what good was electricity, told a government minister that he didn’t know but that “one day you will tax it.”
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Web, which was invented as a tool for physicists to better communicate at
CERN
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They want to know where we all came from, and so do I.
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We may never know where we came from. We will probably never find that cosmic connection to our lost royalty. Someday I will visit Norway and look up those ancestors. They died not knowing the fate of the universe, and so will I, but maybe that’s all right.
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Steven Weinberg, a
University of Texas physicist and
Nobel Prize winner, once wrote in his 1977 book “The First Three Minutes”: “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” Dr. Weinberg has been explaining that statement ever since. He went on to say that it is by how we live and love and, yes, do science, that the universe warms up and acquires meaning.
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As the dark matter fever was rising a few weeks ago, I called Vera Rubin, the astronomer at the department of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, who helped make dark matter a cosmic issue by showing that galaxies rotate too fast for the gravity of their luminous components to keep them together.
But Dr. Rubin, who likes to stick to the facts, refused to be excited. “I don’t know if we have dark matter or have to nudge Newton’s Laws or what.
“I’m sorry I know so little; I’m sorry we all know so little. But that’s kind of the fun, isn’t it?”
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Harvard, University of Johannesburg join forces | Stories | Harvard Alumni Affairs & Development (AA&D) on 2009-12-18
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In India, Anxiety Over the Slow Pace of Innovation - NYTimes.com on 2009-12-12
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Apps to Make iPhone Shutterbugs Smile - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-28
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Management idea: Vision | The Economist on 2009-11-28
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The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualised. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.
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it has to be conveyed in a dramatic and enduring way.
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“Passenger Pleasing Plane”
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GLOBALIZATION-GLOBAL TRENDS REVERSAL-Lessons to be learned - By Professor Bettina Buechel - Strategic Leadership for Women on 2009-11-08
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Schumpeter: Fish out of water | The Economist on 2009-11-05
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An extra ten mobile phones per 100 people in a typical developing country boosts GDP growth by 0.8 percentage points, according to the World Bank, by helping small entrepreneurs flourish.
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Governments helped bring into being the venture-capital industry
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They have also supercharged high-tech clusters
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Most of the world’s other great entrepreneurial hubs, from Bangalore to Guangdong, bear the stamp of government intervention.
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Malaysia’s massive BioValley complex, which opened in 2005 at a cost of $150m, is now known as the “Valley of the BioGhosts”.
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Dubai’s entrepreneurial hub is awash in a sea of red ink.
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The European Union’s European Investment Fund, which was started in 2001 with an endowment of more than €2 billion ($1.8 billion at the time), has failed in its mission to burnish the sorry record of the European venture-capital industry.
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“Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About it”, by Josh Lerner
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“Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle”, by Dan Senor and Saul Singer.
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Policymakers are also lax when it comes to designing venture funds. They try to insulate them from risk or allow public investments to crowd out private ones.
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The first is the temptation to spread the wealth around to every region and interest group.
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entrepreneurial firms cluster in particular places.
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The second is a suspicion of foreign investors.
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was designed to attract foreign venture capital and, just as importantly, expertise.
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Last year Israel, a country of just over 7m people, attracted as much venture capital as France and Germany combined.
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Israel has more start-ups per head than any other country (a total of 3,850, or one for every 1,844 Israelis), and more companies listed on the NASDAQ exchange, a hub for fledgling technology firms, than China and India combined.
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but when it comes to promoting entrepreneurship, “the Israeli model” is the one to emulate.
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French Ideal of Bicycle-Sharing Meets Reality - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-01
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How an Economist's Cry for Ethical Capitalism was Heard | Fast Company on 2009-10-28
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New degree aims to transform American education | Harvard Gazette Online on 2009-10-21
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