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Rick Marshall (Ferrell), who calls himself a quantum paleontologist, has been working on a tachyon meter - it looks like a boom box - that will puncture the space-time continuum. The world laughs at Rick, perhaps because he loves show tunes. But someone believes in him: sexy British scientist Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel), who has found the imprint of his lighter in a rock that's millions of years old. She takes him to the desert area where she found it, and after bumping into the obligatory rude dude, a souvenir salesman named Will (Danny McBride), they all go sliding down...
...household names, yet “The Elegant Universe” worked its way to number four on the New York Times Best-Seller List. The book was eventually made into a PBS miniseries, narrated by Greene. Now a tenured professor at Columbia University, Greene has taught applications of quantum mechanics to a spectrum of students ranging from budding Harvard physicists to comedian Stephen Colbert.CHILD’S PLAYGreene’s enthusiasm for mathematics began early. The physicist said that by the seventh grade, he had “maxed out” on the coursework his school...
...field of research, the quest for a unified theory, is no stranger to uncertainty. A unified theory seeks to meld Einstein’s theory of gravity, a framework that’s relevant when things are large, with quantum mechanics, a body of laws that come into play when things are small. We’ve known for half a century that each of these models works well in its own domain, but each also proclaims that the other is defective. Melding the warring antagonists is essential to gaining insight into other great mysteries—what happened...
...founder (with George Soros) of the hugely successful Quantum Fund, investment guru Jim Rogers had made enough money by 1980 to retire at age 37. Since then, he has spent his time jaunting around the world, writing books on his travels and investment advice with names like Adventure Capitalism and Investment Biker. In 2007 he moved to Singapore to get a front-row seat at Asia's economic boom and also saw the launch of tradeable securities tied to a commodities index he created. His newest book, A Gift to My Children, is a compendium of advice - financial and otherwise...
...thinking Professors David Armitage and Marjorie Garber, will no longer even meet. By framing the debate around Gen Ed in fundamentally semantic terms (look above at the main fruits of a ponderously lengthy curricular review!), the faculty has forfeited the right to be taken seriously as teachers. Considering the quantum of scholarship devoted to debating what is and is not canonical, it is shocking that these selfsame scholars refuse to arm all young undergraduates with knowledge this canon...