Word: eurekas
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...time, the smoking ban had just begun in New York, and people were starting to quit smoking,” he explains. His Eureka moment came when talking to a friend trying to cut back on cigarettes. “He told me he just couldn’t get over the oral fixation,” Rich recalls. Instantly the idea crystallized in his head: “why not make a mint picking up on that psychological connection...
DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs elegantly interpreted Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Ark. Best known for the light tensile wooden Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark., Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture, designing buildings that blend comfortably with their natural surroundings. He typically relied on stone, cedar siding, wood shingles and discreet lighting for his creations, which included fountains, gardens and pavilions...
...project survive a series of political and financial crises before the 50-km tunnel finally opened in 1994. DIED. E. FAY JONES, 83, architect whose designs offered an elegant interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright's style; in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Best known for the light wood Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Jones designed 135 houses and 15 chapels and churches in 20 U.S. states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture?designing buildings to blend in with their natural surroundings. DIED. DAVID MYERS, 90, cinematographer best known for his idiosyncratic camera work...
...idea for Netflix, like many other great eureka moments in business, came from a mundane experience. It was 1997, and Reed Hastings was six weeks late in returning a copy of Apollo 13 to his local Blockbuster in San Jose, Calif. The late fee was $40, and the former computer scientist thought to himself, 'Never again.' He came up with a simple solution--so simple that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are still kicking themselves for not having thought of it first. Netflix customers keep a wish list of DVDs they want to see, in order of preference, on www.netflix.com Netflix then...
...Eureka moments are rarely this sweet and simple. Thomas Kelsey, a computer scientist and cancer researcher at Scotland's University of St. Andrews, was browsing through a medical journal in April 2003, when he spotted a graph that looked oddly familiar. That bit of pattern recognition may help give women a window on their reproductive future - the ability to know in advance when they will reach menopause. The graph plotted the ovary size of healthy women in the U.S. against their age. But to Kelsey's eye, it had an identical trajectory to a mathematical model used to estimate...