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“WARSAW, Poland – Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books. The findings could put an end to centuries of speculation source...

“The website (www.europeana.eu) provides an impressive multi-lingual collection of two million books and other digitized items that were treasured in European museums and archives. This is just the beginning. By 2010 you'll be able to find about 10 million items source...

“The last thing that Dan Lyons (Newsweek columnist and author of Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs) wrote as Fake Steve Jobs is Reality Check’s foreword. It is, in my opinion, the best foreword in the history of man.”

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“The following is a highly edited version of a comment thread found on the blog Gene Expression.  The thread discusses the role of empricism verus deduction in the social sciences.  The star commenter PhysicistDave actually studied under Feynman, which gives source...

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“This weblog is about the relation between the worlds of enterprise architecture and strategic management. The goal is to publish thoughs on these fields, the relationship these world views underlying these fields, research results, case studies, experiences in practice, and source...

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“6. Jim Collins: He is well known because of his clear titles of his books as well as its contents. One of his books is ” Good to Great: Why Some Companies make the lead …. And Others Don’t ” source...

“Earlier today Media Mob reported that political polling expert Nate Silver, the wunderkind statistician behind the Web site FiveThirtyEight.com, was out with a proposal for two books: one about the art of prediction and the other a Freakonomics-style guide to source...

“Michiko Kakutani reviews Malcolm Gladwell's latest book in the New York Times: “Much of what Mr. Gladwell has to say about superstars is little more than common sense: that talent alone is not enough to ensure success, that opportunity, hard source...

“Until yesterday morning, I had never seen a scorpion before. I always imagine it in my mind like a big spider and I am not aware of scorpions have tails at its back. I had known them from biology and source...

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