Hmm, I’m totally out of it as I missed that John Baez, who “blogged” before blogging was the incredibly hip thing to do (which lasted for exactly 2 seconds in 2006?) has a new blog, a new two year visiting position in Singapore, and a new focus. From his first post: I hope we talk [...]
Last week I picked up a copy of The Myths of Innovation by Scott Berkun. It’s a short little book, clocking in at 256 pages, paperback. The subject is, well, read the damn title of the book, silly! Berkun picks apart the many different myths that exist around innovation: epiphany, lone inventors, and many of [...]
Scienceblogs, the science network that was my old (where “old” = “a few days ago”) haunt, is in revolt. Okay, well maybe the network is not in revolt, but there is at least a minor insurgency. Yesterday, the amazing force of blogging known as @Boraz, left the network (be sure you have more than a [...]
I was under the impression that the arXiv was started in August of 1991. For example, navigating to the hep-th category and pulling up a listing by dates will list the first paper as hep-th/9108001 by Horne and Horowitz. Indeed wikipedia tells us that The arXiv was originally developed by Paul Ginsparg and started in [...]
