NUREMBERG, Germany Nuremberg enjoyed its first snow of winter this evening, but across town at its gleaming CongressCenter, entrepreneurs celebrated a different triumph. "Open source has crossed the chasm," proclaimed Alexander Bruhl, of VC firm Atlas Venture. Referring to the 1991 tech marketing book by Geoffrey A. Moore, Bruhl argued that Open Source is more […]
VS Ramachandran – A Reductionist?
Dr. VS Ramachandran is the Director, Center for Brain and Congnition, University of California, San Diego and a well-known neuroscientist. He delivered the Reith Lectures in 2003 which were titled "The Emerging Mind." He essentially studies the neurological basis of various factors that make a human being "human". He uses the examples of Phantom Limb […]
Review: Microsoft Word 2007
Microsoft will release a revamped version of Word on January 30th. According to Microsoft, Word 2007 is the end-product of a gigantic market research effort. “It used to be the loudest programmer won the Word design wars,” says Paul Coleman, senior marketing manager for Microsoft Word. “No more. We built this iteration from years of […]
Creating the Next Generation of Scientists and Doctors
While most middle and high school kids are still sleeping at 9 a.m. on Saturday mornings, there are a group of about fifty students in upper Manhattan who are awake and learning about basic science, medicine, and health. These aspiring scientists and future medical professionals from the Washington Heights area are enrolled in the Lang […]
Line between pornography and art begins to blur
Destricted is an explicit film company based out of London, UK. They essentially define their brand by not defining it; that is, it is a blur between pornography and art, and maybe something different altogether. Mel Agace got the idea for Destricted a few years ago while researching material for her publication entitled ‘The Sex […]
Chivalry is dead
“Women belong in the kitchen!” screams a report from the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and with a heavy heart I concede that I’m forbidden to do the housework. Alas the metrosexual inside me wants to help out, honestly, but the chauvinist fascists at CRUK just won’t allow it. A recent study of over 200,000 women […]