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May 14

Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Tom

Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha fame had the chance to visit the archives of German polymath Gottfried Leibniz in Hanover. Despite being almost 300 years old, his papers are still in good condition and show some of the … Read More →

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May 06

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Tom

There seems to be a never-ending series of amusing and amazing stories featuring (or told by) physicist Richard Feynman. Like this one, Danny Hillis’ reminiscing about Feynman and his work on The Connection Machine .

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May 02

Just the contents of an old chest in the attic

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Tom

Over on reddit they have a forum, or as they call it subreddit, called WhatsInThisThing?, that grew from a post someone made about a vault they found in their house and the efforts around getting into it to see what … Read More →

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Apr 26

Listen to Alexander Graham Bell

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Tom

He invented the telephone and his voice was the first to be transmitted by it yet what he sounded like was lost to history. Or at least it was. Bell spent a number of years trying to improve on the … Read More →

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Apr 03

The untold story behind Apple’s $13,000 operating system

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Tom

The Apple II, which came out in 1977, was a significant update to the original Apple I. It included a power supply and integrated case, both of which the more hobbyist-oriented Apple I lacked. But one thing it lacked was … Read More →

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