a new 4,000-square-foot permanent exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science…. Why Albuquerque?
STARTUP’s biggest benefactor, Paul Allen, and fellow geek Bill Gates launched Microsoft in 1975. [Business Week, Feb 26] Maybe computer science should be in the College of Theology. –RS Barton, software engineer “Ideas today, royalty checks tomorrow!” The toughest part of inventing isn’t solving problems. It’s figuring out which problems are worth the effort. … 65 years ago [Raymond] Yates, a self-taught engineer, inventor and technical writer, tried to nudge other inventors in the right direction with his book, “2100 Needed Inventions.” [Cynthia Crossen, Wall Street Journal, May 21] Remember though that an invention is a gadget, and an innovation is an invention that sells. Three lab workers poring over a lab bench saying, All right, we didn’t create life, but we did create a kind of glue or varnish or something. [Wall Street Journal cartoon, May 21] Do charities like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation produce better medical research than institutions supported by the government?
