Egypt to copyright the pyramids and antiquities | Art & Architecture | Guardian Unlimited Arts
Egypt is planning to pass a law that would exact royalty payments from anyone found making copies of the country’s ancient monuments or museum pieces, including the pyramids.
Hm, in a few hours BoingBoing will call for everyone to get out their Legos or clay, make pyramids and upload the photos to a Flickr group!
Wired News – AP News
A new book claims to have definitive evidence of a long-suspected technological crime – that Alexander Graham Bell stole ideas for the telephone from a rival, Elisha Gray.
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Perhaps the most instructive lesson comes when Shulman explores why historical memory has favored Bell and not Gray – nor German inventor Philipp Reis, who beat them both with 1860s telephones that employed a different principle.
Ah, history is so fickle…
Reporters sans frontières
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TED | Talks | Arthur Benjamin: Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic” (video)
Lightning calculation and other “Mathemagic”
You vs. The Chimp
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