Month: May 2008
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NYT: Einstein Letter on God Sells for $404,000
Just a quick follow-up to my thoughts earlier this week – the New York Times’ Dennis Overbye reports that From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week. Mr. Overbye must have missed his colleague’s Op-Ed stating that these culture wars were obsolete? I kid, I kid.…
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Things that gave me pause this week II
With a lot less words than the other thing that gave me pause this week. Via Smashing Magazine via FFFfound. Update: Since I’ve been asked, I do occasionally buy perfume and I like ice cream. And I probably wouldn’t turn down an ocean cruise.
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Things that gave me pause this week I
Last Friday at the airport, when I was queuing to board the plane, the man in front of me was reading the Economist. I couldn’t help but notice a double-page ad placed by the Templeton Foundation. The ad featured a set of interesting essays by a number of prominent scientists, philosophers and theologists on the…
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Questions?
In order to collectively answer to a couple of questions we received during the last weeks and to shed some light on what’s behind Mendeley – we’ve set up a FAQ page on www.mendeley.com. Check it out!
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Private beta test
I just wanted to give you a short update on our beta test. First of all, we’d like to say thank you to our existing testers (your feedback was very encouraging!) and also to all the new testers who’ve signed up. We are expecting to roll out a new version for testing next week, so…
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