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IEEE Spectrum
February 2013 |
Phreaking Out Ma Bell We learn how a buccaneering young engineer built the little blue box that broke into the biggest network in the world in Phil Lapsley's Exploding the Phone: the Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 16, 2013
Katie Johnston |
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Caitlin C. Rosenthal studies the meticulous records kept by southern plantation owners for measuring the productivity of their slaves, some of which were forerunners of modern management techniques. |
Chemistry World
January 9, 2013
Philip Ball |
Righting history Every chemistry student can benefit from some understanding of their subject's evolution, and they deserve more than comforting myths. |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2013
Laura Howes |
Digging up ancient drug formulations Some of the medicines we take today, such as aspirin, have a long history. But analysis of drugs found in an ancient shipwreck that sank in the second century BC threw up some compounds that are still being used by the medical profession today. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 8, 2012
Julia Hanna |
The Immigrants Who Built America's Financial System In The Founders and Finance, Harvard Business School business historian Thomas McCraw lays out in fascinating detail how immigrants Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin became essential to the nation's survival. |
Chemistry World
September 5, 2012
Matthew Turnbull |
The science and history of alcohol Alcohol and Its Role in the Evolution of Human Society by Ian Hornsey, covers an immense amount of ground for readers unfamiliar with the fundamentals of brewing technology, metabolic pathways and plant biology. |
Chemistry World
August 28, 2012
Andrea Sella |
Luer's syringe The Wulfing-Luers family left an indelible mark on the sciences with their syringes. The Luer-lok and Luer-slip are universal and the original 6 taper now has its own ISO, DIN and EN standards. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 30, 2012
Carmen Nobel |
How technology adoption affects global economies Harvard Business School Associate Professor Diego A. Comin was motivated by reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning book that explores the historical hegemony of Western Europe through the lens of technology and geography. |
Chemistry World
July 1, 2012
Andrea Sella |
Luggin's capillary The Luggin capillary allowed chemists to get close to reactions at working electrodes |
AskMen.com
June 7, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Euro 2012 Host: Ukraine As Ukraine prepares to co-host Euro 2012, which begins Friday, the backdrop to soccer in this struggling country of 46 million people hasn't changed much. The game is still a great Ukrainian passion, and still a plaything of oligarchs and corrupt politicians. |
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