Author: victorhenning
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What we forgot to say..
Some of our beta testers have thankfully pointed out to us that we forgot to mention a tiny, yet important, detail: Currently, Mendeley Desktop only runs on Windows. Sincerest apologies to those Mac and Linux users who downloaded our software only to discover that their operating system was not yet supported! We feel a little…
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From cold fusion to cold beer
I just visited the Scientific American to see whether they had picked up this Physicsworld story on an allegedly successful cold fusion experiment in Japan. It seems they didn’t, and so my premature hopes of seeing the world’s energy problems solved before I left the office today took a little dent. Instead, SciAm’s front page…
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Trying to make you happy
The joys and terrors of founding a company are essentially the same. You get to decide almost everything, which means that you also have decide almost everything. In the case of software development, that means the look of every interface, the wording in every dialog, the detailed function of each feature, the placement of each…
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Guru*Talks and the Bauhaus Film Institute
Phew. I spent a substantial part of the weekend editing transcribed guest lectures, and now I’m done for the night. Let me explain: While I was at the Bauhaus-University of Weimar, I organized and co-hosted (together with Prof. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau) a series of invited talks on the art and economics of filmmaking. Not to be…
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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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