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8 Pieces of Advice Every Entrepreneur Needs

Advice to help you be more confident, manage more effectively, and sell more than you think you can. I love listening to smart people. I don’t like listening to smart people when they pretend they developed the wisdom they impart all on their own—like a Stephen Hawking fairy flew down and touched them on the head with a Wand of Wisdom.

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The Courage to Be Wrong: Reading the Biography of Stephen Hawking

In July 2010, the editorial department of Scientific American where at the time I was on staff received a review copy of a book was slated to come out in September. It was a slim, drab-looking, paperback-bound volume, still without a cover design or page numbers

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‘Unwell’ Stephen Hawking misses 70th birthday event

British scientist Stephen Hawking was forced to miss a scientific debate to mark his 70th birthday Sunday due to ill health but sent an upbeat message saying he was living at a "glorious time".

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Stephen Hawking celebrates 70th birthday

British scientist Stephen Hawking celebrated his 70th birthday Sunday, an age many experts never expected the motor neurone disease sufferer to reach.

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Encounter at Dawn: Stephen Hawking, me, and an ATM

A black hole lenses the light of the Milky Way in the background (Credit: Ute Kraus amd Axel Mellinger) This weekend Stephen Hawking turns 70, an extraordinary physical accomplishment to add to an extraordinary list of physics accomplishments. Seeing this news reminded me of the the first time that I crossed paths with Hawking.

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Stephen Hawking to turn 70, defying disease

British scientist Stephen Hawking has decoded some of the most puzzling mysteries of the universe but he has left one mystery unsolved: How he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.

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How Many Companies Does It Take To Send A Science Project Into Space?

No, that's not the setup to a joke. Google, YouTube, Lenovo, Space Adventures, NASA, ESA, and JAXA are pulling science and tech education into the spotlight yet again, hosting a global science fair with prizes that are, quite literally, out of this world.

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Leonard Susskind: The Bad Boy of Physics (preview)

Stanford University physicist Leonard Susskind revels in discovering ideas that transform the status quo in physics. Forty years ago he co-founded string theory, which was initially derided but eventually became the leading candidate for a unified theory of nature. For years he disputed Stephen Hawking’s conjecture that black holes do not merely swallow objects but grind them up beyond recovery, in violation of quantum mechanics

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This Week In Bots: Robochefs, Killer Toy Drones, Teacherbots, And More

As Stephen Hawking once said: "Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world." So what developments in robotics happened this week? Robot breakfast We've seen research roboticists perform various odd tricks with their robots, but this one takes the pancake

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Winning Argument: As a ‘New’ Critique of Reason, Argumentative Theory Is Trite but Useful

Now and then, scientists tout an idea so crushingly obvious that I assume I'm missing something. Case in point: the anthropic principle, which proclaims that reality has to be as we observe it to be because otherwise we wouldn't be here to observe it. I've always been baffled as to why smart people, like Stephen Hawking , take this tautology seriously

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