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...WITH IT IN 1776 WHEN I WAS PEOPLE WATCHING AT A PUBLIC PARK FM10543: people, as in, “anthropology” RingMyBell: YES “ANTHRO” IS THE GREEK ROOT FOR “PEOPLE” SO WHEN THE IDEA STRUCK ME TO INVENT IT THE NAME FOLLOWED PRETTY NATURALLY FM10543: hm so you are 1000 years old RingMyBell: ... FM10543: ... RingMyBell: I AM THE FIRST ANTHROPOLOGIST FM10543: ... RingMyBell: YES I AM 1000 FM10543: you mentioned the year 1943 RingMyBell: NO FM10543: was it a holocaust thing RingMyBell: WHAT FM10543: are you nazi RingMyBell: ANTHROPOLOGICALLY...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions for Robert Bell | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...only people whose credibility is at stake are people trying to invent issues out of thin air." STEVE SCHMIDT, White House spokesman, on Democrats questioning the integrity of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito after a 1985 memorandum surfaced last week in which Alito spells out his strategy for "overruling Roe v. Wade," which safeguards the rights of women in the U.S. to have an abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

Though AgION did not invent the ceramic--a Japanese firm did that--the company has unleashed its power since licensing the technology in 1997. It has engineered 14 grades of the material to meet various needs, from coating frequently washed factory floors to shielding intravenous catheters. One AgION customer, Wellman International's polyester unit, has infused fibers with AgION's compound and is testing ideas like germ-resistant T shirts, air-conditioner filters and pillows. "We believe it fills a need that exists in the marketplace," says the unit's business manager, David Whitley. "It has value--and, bottom line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeffrey Trogolo: Hygiene's Silver Bullet | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...confused with the video for the eight-bit-style remix of this song, which came out earlier this year), even Japan’s smoothest exports can’t stop the raw power of a human. Well, a hologram of a human, in this case.Apparently, Sony invented four robots that can dance. They’re a foot high or so, look like the main character from the film “Short Circuit,” and can be programmed to do all manner of silly shakes. So, of course, Beck’s people hired all four...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Bernard L. Parham, and Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen | 12/1/2005 | See Source »

...google.” To arrive at that household name, Brin and Page unintentionally misspelled the math term “googol,” proving that even Stanford educated computer junkies make mistakes (if they were Harvard-educated, things might have been different). Brin and Page did not invent the search engine concept, but they certainly refined it. Unlike most of its competitors, Google used PageRank technology to compile results according to importance and would not allow advertisement money to contaminate them. Repeatedly, Google chose quality of the website over potential profit; hence the mantra in the company?...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Story Behind One (Misspelled) Word | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

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