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Years ago, when some of us began thinking about who might be Person of the Century, Albert Einstein was one person who made each of our short lists. It was, above all, a century that would be remembered for advances in science and technology. Einstein stood out as its greatest scientific genius, and his work touched the most important fields of technology: nuclear weapons, television, space travel, lasers and semiconductors...
...even the most accurate clock in the world can't answer the question of what all these atoms are actually measuring. What is time anyway? According to Isaac Newton, both space and time were fixed attributes of the universe, a God-given stage on which events unfolded. But Albert Einstein torpedoed that idea with his theories of special and general relativity: the only thing that's fixed in the cosmos, he showed, is the speed of light...
...campus. It turns out a splash of royal purple was just what Loker Commons needed, and the cherry red monitors lined up in the Science Center add a touch of brightness to that dreary trek to our Science B core. Annoying commercials aside (how dare they use Gandhi and Einstein for advertising, let alone Lucille Ball), the computers themselves seemed like...
This sounds very similiar to the South African government's justification for keeping black students out of white apartheid institutions. Bill Gates was a bad student--he never even finished school. In fact even Einstein, one of the smartest men, was a bad student at one time during his life. But does this make them stupid...
...Person of the Century poll(we are looking for "that person who, for better or worse, most influenced the course of history over the past 100 years"), and you can expect to get a provocative response. The excitement started immediately - and a clear leader emerged. Einstein? Gandhi? JFK? No, Mick Foley. The day after the poll launched, a robot attacked and cast thousands of votes for Foley, a professional wrestler. What is a robot, you ask? Robots, or "'bots," as we call them, are automatic voting programs that come into our web site and vote over and over...