Trivia #11

1. What de F**k!
2. Airbus new Patent filing.
3. Happy Birthday Anders Celsius!

Trivia #10

1. Gangs! Make prisons less crowded and dangerous, and inmates would require less group protection. Gangs are a logical response to prison conditions. The same goes for the outside.
2. Happy Birthday Eugene!
Remembering 1960: "A possible explanation of the physicist's use of mathematics to formulate his laws of nature is that he is a somewhat irresponsible person. As a result, when he finds a connection between two quantities which resembles a connection well-known from mathematics, he will jump at the conclusion that the connection is that discussed in mathematics simply because he does not know of any other similar connection."
3. Happy birthday Patrick! He wrote: “May every young scientist remember -- and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.”

Trivia #9

1. That’s why the balance of power between makers and breakers will shape our world every bit as much as the one between America, Russia and China.
2. NEW political scheme, the biggest secret of the Republican triumph surely lies in the discovery that obstructionism bordering on sabotage is a winning political strategy.
3. First baby from three parents? Awesome. The British Parliament may vote on this by the end of the year. If so, the Newcastle scientists hope to do their first DNA transplant sometime next year.

Trivia #8

1. Excellent 4 minute video explaining CRISPR-Cas9 method – a powerful new technology with many applications in biomedical research, including the potential to treat human genetic disease.
2. Forma wsparcia ucznia z problemami edukacyjnymi i osobistymi.
3. Books? Wonderful ARTICLES on the subject by the Economist, as number of Books increases the number of full time writers decreases.

Chopin: Simplicity is the highest goal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBELcBzBh3E

Happy Birthday Marie!

07.11.2014 - Shame on "Physics Today" not to mentioned Marie Curie Skłodowska, anyway, happy Birthday to Marie and Lise! This is the most significant history day for Polish Science.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person (and only woman) to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.
She was born Maria Salomea Skłodowska in Warsaw, in what was then the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. She studied at Warsaw's clandestine Floating University and began her practical scientific training in Warsaw. In 1891, aged 24, she followed her older sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she earned her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and with physicist Henri Becquerel. She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and the discovery of two elements, polonium and radium. Under her direction, the world's first studies were conducted into the treatment of neoplasms, using radioactive isotopes. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw, which remain major centres of medical research today. During World War I, she established the first military field radiological centres.
While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska Curie (she used both surnames) never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland. She named the first chemical element that she discovered – polonium, which she first isolated in 1898 – after her native country.
Curie died in 1934 at the sanatorium of Sancellemoz (Haute-Savoie), France, due to aplastic anemia brought on by exposure to radiation – including carrying test tubes of radium in her pockets during research and her World War I service in mobile X-ray units created by her.

Trivia #7

1. Happy 200th Birthday Mr.Sax!
2. A fascinating story of unexpected creative breakthroughs.

Trivia #6

1. Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr and the Struggle for the Soul of Science.
2. Congratulations Fabiola! What an impressive carrier you have and now the DG at CERN. Good example for women who are accomplished.
3. This is worthy of knowing!
4. "a basic compact that Hyundai and Kia flagrantly violated in this case.”

Trivia #5

1. China: A bitter dispute lays bare questionable practices in China’s foreign-talent programs.
2. Happy Birthday Galileo from Livorno, Italy. Whether Galileo Ferraris, not Nikola Tesla, should be credited with first inventing the polyphase electric motor was the subject of three lawsuits in 1901-05 and remains controversial today.
3. ADHD bullshit! From the standpoint of teachers, parents and the world at large, the problem with people with A.D.H.D. looks like a lack of focus and attention and impulsive behavior. But if you have the “illness,” the real problem is that, to your brain, the world that you live in essentially feels not very interesting.