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...Americans fired up a chimpanzee named Ham in a Mercury capsule. Presumably Ham, with his evolutionary advantage, had a richer experience in space than the astronaut dog. When America at last committed a human life to the venture, Shepard advanced the space program by an evolutionary quantum leap. He lived to become more famous still by playing golf on the moon during his Apollo 14 expedition...
...characteristic of the Harvard-educated computer whiz who once listed his IQ on his resume: 214. Born out of wedlock to a Ukrainian-Jewish immigrant, Unz went on to win first prize in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and, after majoring in theoretical physics and ancient history, studied quantum gravitation with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University. In 1988 he formed a financial-software firm, Wall Street Analytics, which made him wealthy, and began funding conservative think tanks. Unz, who grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household, says, "America is successful because we have assimilated immigrants...
CHARLIE PARKER (1920-1955) With startling impact, the musical quantum leap known as Bebop shook the jazz world in the mid-1940s. Its prime energy source was sax man Parker. Unhinging improvisation from song melody, jumping into dissonances and spinning out complex lines, Parker created the sound that dominated postwar jazz. His 1953 recording Jazz at Massey Hall catches this revolutionary in full flight...
...money at different times, would step up and buy the various chunks of risk. Because these risk bundles were derived from the underlying investments, they were called derivatives. To explain this new world, Sanford embraced what has come to be known as the theory of particle finance. Just like quantum physics, which involves looking deep inside atoms to understand how the physical world works, Sanford proposed looking deep inside every investment to understand better how markets work...
...ELECTRONIC CENTURY A defining event actually occurred three years before the century began: the discovery of the electron by British physicist J.J. Thomson. Along with Planck's 1900 theory of quantum physics, this discovery led to the first weapon of mass destruction, which helped hasten the end of the Second World War and became the defining reality of the cold war. Alan Turing harnessed electronics to devise the first digital computers. Five centuries earlier, Gutenberg's printing press had cut the cost of transmitting information by a factor of a thousand. That paved the way for the Reformation by allowing...