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Su Doku

I suspect a lot of us would have more time in the day if it were not for Su Doku. Apparently, Sudoku was seventh of the top one hundred web searches for 2005. I can see why — it is really addictive! Similar to a crossword puzzle but totally numeric, the idea is to fill […]

Ben Franklin

Reading biographies of presidents and other famous people was of great interest to me as a young child. The one I remember most vividly was that of Benjamin Franklin. Born in Boston, Benjamin Franklin was an ambassador of goodwill around the world but was also a printer, writer, inventor, and scientist. Three hundred years after […]

Two New Books

Two new books arrived this week that may be of interest. Naked Conversation – How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel is very timely with all that is going on in the world of blogging. I know Robert from Microsoft. He has been active in evangelizing […]

Genographic Project – Update

Within ten minutes of posting the story, I got an update from Kris Lichter at IBM. Kris is program director for the Genographic Project at IBM’s Healthcare and Life Science Solutions group. The genographic project hit 100,000 kits purchased by the public on December 18th. Kris, says "That was our five year goal, and it […]

The Genographic Project

One of the subjects I know the least about is genetics. Some day I will read some books and learn how the human body’s 50 to 100 trillion cells combine to form our tissues and organs. One of the most interesting aspects of the body is how the genes inside each cell comprise the "blueprint" […]