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...world is a brighter place because Shuji Nakamura is not easily discouraged. In 1993 he astonished the scientific community with the first successful blue light-emitting diode, or LED. The blue LED was the last step in the creation of lighting's holy grail, the brilliant white LED--an ultra-efficient successor to Thomas Edison's incandescent lightbulb, circa...
...bigger plans,” and the book’s underlying theme of familial tension.One short, the opener, skewers Abraham during a painfully awkward walk down the mountain after that Biblical tale of paternal betrayal, the Binding of Isaac. But however brilliant the set-up, Rich is most skillful in his dialogue. A jittery Abraham pleads to Isaac, “How about some Rocky Road? Chocolate? I’d get you some strawberry, but hey, your name’s Isaac, not Isaac-Marie—am I right? Ha! Seriously, though, if you want strawberry...
...quest for answers has been hindered by doubt: is dreaming a mystery worth solving? Science has long had an uneasy relationship with our nocturnal imaginings. While some brilliant practitioners have worked-and do work-in the field, its links with mysticism and Freudian theory have repelled others like a bad odor. Everybody dreams and most people talk about theirs now and again. But once, as children, we learn to distinguish these delusions from reality, dreams usually become no more than a sideshow, sometimes disturbing, occasionally poignant, but mostly something to be forgotten, quickly and completely, if they were remembered...
...older women over, Dove puts a positive spin on the unhappy moment when a woman buys her first jar of antiwrinkle cream. "The concept is linguistically brilliant," says Cheryl Swanson, a managing partner at Toniq, a brand-strategy firm in New York City. "Skin care has typically been about fighting back--age defying. It's been almost warrior-like. Take a stance against this natural thing that's happening to you. This is different." The strategy tells women, implicitly, that they can look better without trying too hard...
...haute couture fashion house, Hermé rolls out a new collection every fall and spring. Sophisticated flavor combinations like green tea and chestnut bring simple pleasures to a new level of contemporary cool, while the olive oil or white truffle macarons are utterly astonishing. Even the surfaces are brilliant - some glisten like mother of pearl. Life may be like a box of chocolates, but happiness is a meringue rainbow by Hermé. laduree.fr; pierreherme.com