You’ve probably heard about PayPal founder Peter Thiel’s 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, which will give 24 young people the opportunity to delay college (although some of the fellows have already graduated from college; they’re that smart) and instead take 2 years and $100,000 each to work on developing special projects in the areas of education, information technology, robotics, and more. But have you read the bios of this first group of fellows? Read them and you’ll either a) feel dumb and/or old or b) feel hopeful for the future.
This quote from The New York Times on the Barnes & Noble Nook presented without commentary: “Some women, at least, seem to prefer their electronic reading devices to be simpler, something they can read on. Tablets with Rock Band, GT Racing and high-res cameras? That’s guy stuff.”
Should deafness be considered an ethnicity?
Too weird not to share: a horse herpes outbreak leads to little girls riding stick ponies.
