Since my blog is not a “family blog” like MR , I should be able to talk without inhibition about this :-). So I try. Not that we didn’t have already a hunch about this, wealth comes with better sex lives (bloody Joop, he kept telling me this all the time- money and women and sex and the rest- ok, ok, you’ve got a point my friend, though not the whole truth…).
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Most important science news of 2006
After the science breakthrough from…Science, let me post a short entry on the most important science stories of 2006, according to Scientific American. Some highlights:
- Again on Perelman, the reluctant genious who solved the Poincaré conjecture
- Dark matter exists
- First invisibility cloak
Science Breakthrough of 2006
Highlights:
- Number1: The proof of the Poincaré Conjecture by Grigori Perelman (who subsequently refused the Fields medal!).
- Runners-up
- Breakdown of 2006
Don’t worry, be happy, get angry, stay angry
It’s not sure that Bobby McFerrin foresaw the results of this recent study published in the PNAS (shortly reviewed in the Scientific American), but it turns out that following his advice is really what one should do in order to become creative and to suddently have tons of great ideas.
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Ad Astra revine cu o petitie pentru rezolvarea unor probleme majore in managementul cercetarii stiintifice din Romania (petitie pe care tocmai am semnat-o si eu). Evident, in mod normal o asemenea petitie ar fi redundanta pentru ca toate cerintele acestea fac parte din standardul organizarii cercetarii stiintifice intr-un regim civilizat.
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