picLance Armstrong - The Toast of Cycling
Lance Armstrong ends his amazing career with a record
seventh consecutive Tour de France victory today.
The 33-year-old cyclist, who in 1996 was diagnosed with
testicular cancer that…
picSandra Day O'Connor
First woman Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
retires today, who is widely viewed as the critical swing vote
for a quarter-century on major legal…
picJohn Berton
Chicagoan John Berton, who lives his whole life on solar
power, is an extreme devotee among a growing number
of people across Illinois taking steps…
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picEaster Egg
A recent international study by 1,360 researchers in 95
countries has concluded that humans are damaging the
planet at a rapid rate and raising risks…
picGarry Kasparov in The King (Putin) and I
Garry Kasparov, who is arguably the greatest chess player
of all time, announced his retirement from professional
chess play on Friday. He said he planned…
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picChristo and Jeanne-Claude at The Gates
The husband-and-wife team created "The Gates, Central
Park, New York, 1979-2005" as a democratic installation.
No one can own the work, no one must pay…
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picJared Diamond
Author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
In the book, Diamond describes societies that perished due
to climate change and deforestation. Easter Island is…
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picMartin Bojowald
A disciple of loop quantum gravity, a theory of gravity
at the smallest of scales, which physicists can use to look
inside black holes or back…
picAnu Tali
The Estonian conductor made her American debut this week
with the New Jersey Symphony as part of its Northern Lights
Festival.
"Isn't life in the end all…
picEls Cooperrider
Owner of the first organically certified restaurant in
California, where everything served is organic from
the burgers and beer down to the salt and pepper.
"How…
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picSwedish Boy
A Swedish boy found alone after the tsunami was reunited
with his father today. His mother is still among some 5,000
people missing in Thailand.
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picWinter in New York
Winter has arrived in New York one day before the official
start of winter.
The blast of Artic cold has also reached south all the way…
picJohn Young
"The country needs it. The world needs it. Civilization needs
it. I don't need it. I'm not going to be here that long."
Astronaut John Young…
picTom Wolfe
Author Tom Wolfe won a British prize for bad sex in fiction.
The prize is awarded each year "to draw attention to the
crude, tasteless,…
picWangari Maathai
"Activities that devastate the environment and societies
continue unabated. Today we are faced with a challenge
that calls for a shift in our thinking, so…
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picHenri Bergson
On the technological development of a society (in a 1928
Nobel Banquet speech translated from French):
"...the technological development of a society does not
automatically result…
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picAlan Kay
Alan Kay, a Turing award winner for his work on Smalltalk
and personal computing, once wrote:
"There are certain themes deep inside humanity, without
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picJohn Archibald Wheeler
Human consciousness shapes not only the present
but the past as well:
"Reality is defined by the questions we put to it.
The past is theory. It…
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