Steve Jobs

Jobs is dead.

His commencement speech at Stanford in 2005 is one of the best commencement speeches.

Here is the video:

Here is the full transcript: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html

Chai Ling, a student leader in Tian'anmen Square protests of 1989, recently appeared in a house subcommittee (Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights) to testify about China's one-child policy.

Mrs. Ling mentioned in her testimony that she was pregnant for four times during college. She is a slutty whore by any standard and she wants to blame her abortion on the one-child policy. Shame on her.

Who are the world's biggest employers?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/09/employment

Listverse.com

Listverse.com is a collection of "lists that intrigue and educate, specializing in the bizarre or lesser-known trivia."

It is quite interesting.

Sheldon Lee Glashow and Steven Weinberg

Sheldon Lee Glashow and Steven Weinberg both graduated from Bronx High School of Science in 1950. Both of them then went to Cornell University and graduated in 1954. And in 1979, they (along with Abdus Salam) won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

A Good Book on String Theory

String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521860695/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=leowilsblo-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=0521860695