When University of Virginia baseball player Will Roberts pitched a perfect game this spring, his feat was covered by two kinds of writers — one human and one electronic. Of the two, the sports website Deadspin determined that the computer better captured the essence of the game.
Source: Big Swing: Robot Sportswriter Outperforms Human : NPR
Does great wealth bring fulfillment? An ambitious study by Boston College suggests not. For the first time, researchers prompted the very rich—people with fortunes in excess of $25 million—to speak candidly about their lives. The result is a surprising litany of anxieties: their sense of isolation, their worries about work and love, and most of all, their fears for their children.
Have you ever wanted to see inside a nuclear reactor? Here are some cutaways throughout time.
Eclectic historic science and art images from rare books and prints
Sometime this year, the Chinese government will announce a new initiative to lure ten scientific superstars to research labs throughout China. The government hopes that if it offers a $23 million dollar award to Nobel Prize winners and other luminaries, they will relocate and raise the quality and prestige of Chinese research and development.
Source: Why American innovation will beat out China’s – Global Public Square – CNN.com Blogs
It sure would be nice if the US had a friendlier policy for letting graduate-educated people immigrate permanently to the US (especially those its institutions trained!).
Facebook will be moving forward with a controversial plan to give third-party developers and external websites the ability to access users’ home addresses and cellphone numbers in the face of criticism from privacy experts, users, and even congressmen.
Source: Facebook To Share Users’ Home Addresses, Phone Numbers With External Sites