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The developer behind Winamp and the gnutella network thinks that we shouldn’t be able to patent something that is essentially just math. Software, like DNA, is so abstract that it […]
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The developer still writes code on a Microsoft Natural keyboard from the mid-’90s, usually with one big monitor. He also reveals what he’s got against llamas.
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In creating the gnutella network without asking the Web giant that employed him, Frankel was trying to “enable people to do things they want to do,” rather than trying to […]
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In the era before iTunes, Frankel created one of the first MP3 players. He says that Apple’s product has “dumbed down” music sharing software.
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The most productive programmers have an ability to cut through to what’s really important, focus on that, and then know when they’ve gotten stuff right.
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A conversation with the software developer and designer.
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Companies need to get better at explaining the benefits of their sustainable products.
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Most businesses end up recognizing that it’s easier to implement sustainability measures than to talk about them.
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A conversation with the Executive Editor of Greenbiz.com.
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One of the greatest things about being a scientist is that you’re continually surprised.
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Certain ways of interpreting certain scriptures have been made obsolete by science—but that in no way makes religious faith or belief in God obsolete
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Become a Nobel laureate means you end up “meeting people who are actually famous.”
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It’s unlikely we’ll ever get all thermal motion to stop in an object. But we can get close enough in many experiments that “it’s basically absolute zero for all practical […]
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A conversation with the physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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Unless you’re for first class citizenship for women, you’re “in support of the subordination of women,” says the attorney.
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“I’m doing battle with some of the best and most highly paid attorneys in town, and often they’ll play dirty. It will be ugly. It will be vicious behind the […]
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“In many cases there is no justice; there’s just minimizing the injustice,” says the lawyer. Doing so to the tune of many millions of dollars can have an “educational impact,” […]
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Bringing a legal case against someone who is famous and powerful can be a “David and Goliath type of situation,” says the lawyer. But she’s “in the business of letting […]
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The attorney says that there’s no hard-and-fast rule about when and how to use the media to help a client in court. “Sometimes it’s like an educational moment or opportunity […]
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Women have made progress under the law—but not enough progress. And family law is rife with problems.