Extinction of the Old, Evolution of the New: What really happened to the dinosaurs?
In the following essay, Greg Laden muses on the glacial pace it takes for geological theories to be widely accepted and the difficulty of pinpointing exactly when the dinosaurs went extinct. I refer, of course to the realization that a giant object from outer space can land on the earth with catastrophic consequences, perhaps causing…
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Microsoft’s New Mobile Boss Is Probably Screwed
Andy Lees, the man at Microsoft tasked with turning around mobile—and essentially saving the company—has an impossibly difficult job. To succeed, it’s going to take patience, tenacity, and the ability to invent a whole new business model. Why? Microsoft’s mobile software is going to arrive late to the party. It’s going to have a hard…
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