TIME's Top Scientists and Thinkers

"TIME" is a liberal weenie magazine... WHY do you read it at all?

...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

It's a lot better than it used to be. I think they finally figured out that their audience is people who read.

John

I used to pay for a subscription... then I gave up... too much indigestion ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

The TIME 100 described as "TIME's list of the men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world" They have 5 catagories. Leaders & Revolutionaries, Builders & Titans, Heroes & Icons, Scientists & Thinkers and Artists & Entertainers.

The twenty Scientists & Thinkers are: Burt Rutan: SpaceShipOne Designer. Malcolm Gladwell: Pop Sociologist Robert Klein: Real Estate Developer/Stem Cell Research Promotor Larry Summers: Harvard President/ Former Treasury Secretary Natan Sharansky: Author, 'The Case for Democracy' Timothy Gartonash, Author, 'The Free World' Mitchell Baker, Lawyer, Head of Mozilla Rick Warren, Pastor/Author 'The Purpose Driven Life'. Brian Atwater, Geologist expert on Tsunamis Andrew Weil, Doctor Guru of Self Healing Peter Singer, Author 'Animal Liberation' Abdolkarim Soroush, Iran's Democratic Voice Jeffrey Sachs, Economist/Author The End of Poverty Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore. Richard Pound, Head of the World Anti-Doping Agency Karl Rove, Political Strategist

So much for science and engineering in the 21st century.

Paul C

And it's cooked. When I got this magazine I turned to this section first, expecting to find scientists. You know people working on dark matter, string theory, new cures . Instead I find some stupid liberal art majors reading list. No wonder kids don't go into science any more. Its not treated as important.

Paul C

At least Rutan made the list. Thank god all it takes is something as trivial as successfully launching yourself into space.

IMHO Rutan is an engineer - not a scientist. Maybe they caught him dressed in a suit instead of coveralls and carrying a greasy spanner.

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Dirk

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Paul,

Who are they? How about a top ten list. No fair including anyone from this list :-)

JB

My complaint is that there weren't enough engineers. I was looking for todays Edisons, Einsteins and Armstrongs in this catagory. I guess the advance of science and technology is no longer applauded but taken for granted.

Paul C

Same reason I read the San Francisco Chronicle. I like to disagree. It gives me the illusion I can think for myself. What use are opinions if you don't challenge them. Besides I've been known to be wrong.

Paul C

"And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts, many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye."

Herman Melville 'Moby Dick'

But the Chron is fluff, and thin fluff at that. When they bought and sold off their only competitor, the Examiner ("sold" it for negative

25 million dollars!), they said it would give them the resources to become a "world-class newspaper". What it actually did was allow them to strip the content and become a monopoly whose prime function is to distribute pounds of flyers for Home Depot and Target and SUV dealerships.

And their cartoonist, Meyer, is moronic and disgusting. Today's Home and Garden section features a plot of "plants" consisting of hunks of shrapnel from Lebanon welded to titanium alloy stalks.

The San Jose Mercury News is a seriously good newspaper.

John

I read two different newspapers here every morning... on the left, the Arizona Republic, and becoming more left every day... on the right, the Tribune.

But the first order of business is to hold each by a fold edge and shake out the flyers and ad-inserts... probably 4X the "news" :-(

...Jim Thompson

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|  James E.Thompson, P.E.                           |    mens     |
|  Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      |
|  Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    |
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|  E-mail Address at Website     Fax:(480)460-2142  |  Brass Rat  |
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I love to cook with wine.      Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I don't know. That's what I hoped to find out by reading the magazine. Whoever they are their not household names. Maybe I need to start reading different magazines.

Paul C

Kurtzweil?

Dirk

The Consensus:- The political party for the new millenium

You can't beat the price at $25.00 for a year of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And the titanium alloy plants are neat. They wilt when the sun goes down and stand up straight in sunlight. They also had instructions for cooking garden snails. The other newspaper here is the Tri-Valley Herald and I'd have to take the whole week. I don't think I can get delivery of the San Jose Mercury in Dublin.

Paul C

I had no problem getting my home town newspaper mailed to me every day while I was in the US Army.

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Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Hey, Jim,

check this!

John

Now THAT'S a copy I'll buy ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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| 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Einstein was NOT an engineer. At all.

--Mac