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Animals may use sounds to communicate but talking is uniquely human. Yet despite decades of research scientists still haven't unlocked the secrets of speech. So why do we talk?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8352525.stm
Women with curvy figures are likely to be brighter than waif-like counterparts and may produce more intelligent offspring, a US study suggests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/health/7090300.stm
Book-buying tribes: trendy Amazonians versus high street shoppers
Google Caffeine, the project name for the newest reincarnation of the search engine, is launching imminently. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6537200/Google-Caffeine-ready-for-roll-out.html
The Big Idea: Roger Highfield explains why Garrett Lisi, the surfer who drew up a 'theory of everything' to explain the universe, is a great role model for science. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/6532614/Surfer-dudes-theory-of-everything-the-magic-of-Garrett-Lisi.html
Paradise of Exiles: The Anglo-American Gardens of Florence by Katie Campbell (Hardcover - Sep 22, 2009)
Every Japanese code was eventually broken, and the intelligence gathered ... and IBM punch-card tabulating machines (when available), a successful ... Note that the Purple cipher (also sometimes referred to as AN-1), used by the Japanese ... especially later in the war, and was generally referred to as "Magic". ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_naval_codes
... researchers are just beginning to untangle the mysteries of how they arise. Black holes are extremely dense masses jammed into single points of space. ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573327,00.html
today’s quote – p7 of the 10/30/09 TLS
“The shake-up that British literature received in the first two decades of the twentieth century, mainly at the hands of visiting Americans, was both timely and salutary. In poetry, Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot are recognized as the principal shakers though the details and emphasis of the legend vary according to the teller. Among the most influential, Hugh Kenner’s version in The Pound Era (1971) places Pound at the forefront, while the book’s subtitle acknowledges Eliot, James Joyce, and Wyndham Lewis as his sidekicks.”
addenda - updated short list of IBM books
The two best books on IBM are
The Maverick and His Machine – Kevin Maney
Building IBM: Shaping an Industry and Its Technology -- Emerson W. Pugh
The book with the most flavor is
Inside IBM: The Watson Years -- William W. Simmons
The oddest book is
And Tomorrow…the World -- Rex Malik
The following are pretty much mandatory
IBM’s 360 and Early 370 Systems -- Emerson W. Pugh, Lyle R. Johnson, and John H. Palmer
IBM’s Early Computers -- Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, Emerson W. Pugh
Father, Son & Co. – Watson and Petre
A Business and Its Beliefs: The Ideas That Helped Build IBM – Watson (Jr.)
Cyril liked
The Computer Establishment – Katherine Fishman
The Sun Never Sets on IBM -- Foy
The Romance Division…a Different Side of IBM -- Deloca and Kalow
Cyril edited
IBM System/38 Technical Developments (1978 IBM General Systems Division) – ISBN – 0-933186-00-2
Indirectly about IBM
Design & Memory: Computer Programming in the 20th Century / Peter H. Huyck and Nellie W. Kremenak
