from Hauser, Robert M. 2002. "Meritocracy, cognitive ability, and the sources of occupational success." CDE Working Paper 98-07 (rev). Center for Demography and Ecology, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
verbatim transcript of the talk Richard Stallman (RMS) gave to the Libre Software and the Law stream on Friday 7th July 2000 in the University of Bordeaux.
MIT Archives & Special Collections - (With some of the solutions provided) - The english portion is actually more of history/geography/and literature section
by Eva Golinger. Transcription of the interview of Noam Chomsky about Venezuelan and Latin American done as promotion for the III International Book Fair in Venezuela, which this year focuses on the theme: "United States: Is Revolution Possible?"
by Scott Aaronson. I have an ingenious idea for a company... My company will be the one that packages ... in 25-cent cardboard boxes, then resells the boxes for up to $300 apiece.
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium."Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,"
This story is also the story of the decline and fall of the British university and the corruption of the academic ideal . That is why this essay carries two titles - a personal one and a social one.
This site provides a free physics textbook that tells the story of how it became possible, after 2500 years of exploration, to answer such questions. The book is written for the curious: it is entertaining, surprising and challenging on every page.
A PAL -- a "Permissive Action Link" -- is the box that is supposed to prevent unauthorized use of a nuclear weapon. It's supposed to be impossible to "hot-wire" a nuclear weapon. Is it?
None of us can know the answers for sure until our own time comes, but the few individuals who have their brush with death interrupted by a last-minute reprieve can offer some intriguing insights.
"If you’ve interviewed for programmer jobs a few times you will probably recognize some of these patterns. If you are just beginning your career as a programmer learn these patterns to prepare yourself."
Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" (mostly about JAVA) discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.
Timothy Gowers is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambirdge (UK) and a recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal. Professor Gowers gave the Keynote Address at the historic Millennium Meeting of the Clay Mathematics Institute.
continuation of the 2000 book Reinventing Comics, "I Can't Stop Thinking!" provided a forum for ongoing speculations about digital comics. Originally sponsored by The Comic Reader (now offline, apparently). Last 2 episodes are about micropayment
explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary - and plain bizarre - national secrets at the core of George W Bush's war on terror.
a chimpanzee named Jerry. He and his wife Dorothy were raising Jerry as their baby. Little Jerry slept in a crib and wore diapers just like a human baby.
pictures of most nuclear and thermonuclear atmospheric(or surface) explosions conducted in the period between 1945-1963. On August 5, 1963 limited test ban treaty signed, so all the consequent tests were underground, although there were some exceptions, e.g. China conducted atmospheric tests later. Pictures are grouped by operation names, dimensions and file size shown, almost all of the pictures are color except the ones marked as "bw".
the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain. This site is not affiliated in any way with any government entity; it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages.
Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War. But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915. Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.
"Creation is a process, and strangely, by looking at how everyone’s favorite plushy first-mate sprang into existence, we can learn a lot about any collaborative creative endeavor."
"It was only supposed to be a joke, I never thought people would take the book seriously. Anyone with half a brain can see that object-oriented programming is counter-intuitive, illogical and inefficient."
"Only one third of a search engine is devoted to fulfilling search requests. The other two thirds are divided between crawling (sending a host of single-minded digital organisms out to gather information) and indexing (building data structures from the results)." By George Dyson