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Lego Stephen Hawking

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 Jul 21, 2008  •  tags: legos stephenhawking

Description of attending an amazing talk by Stephen Hawking. "In the beginning there's a long pause. Really long. The applause dies down and then... crickets. For thirty seconds... a minute... two minutes. Then suddenly, Hawking's synthesized voice: 'Can you hear me?' The climactic scenes of blockbuster movies are not as thrilling."

 Mar 14, 2007  •  tags: stephenhawking talks

Stephen Hawking is making an Imax 3D film about "cosmology and the meaning of existence". The film "will be like Groundhog Day meets Star Trek".

 Oct 16, 2006  •  tags: stephenhawking science physics movies

Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog are publishing a paper that argues that the universe "began in just about every way imaginable" simultaneously and then most of the possibilites withered away with the rest blending together to make the current universe.

 Jun 21, 2006  •  tags: science physics cosmology bigbang stephenhawking universe

A rare interview with Stephen Hawking about his remix of A Brief History of Time. The interview's a bit weird...the interviewer doesn't seem to know a whole lot about science.

 Oct 4, 2005  •  tags: science physics books stephenhawking

A sequel to Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time: A Briefer History of Time. "More Accessible. More Concise."

 Sep 10, 2005  •  tags: stephenhawking books physics science

Physicist Stephen Hawking has been reduced to blinking to control his helper computer.

Adriana: "I thought you might be interested in a post I wrote a while back about a former editor of Elle who communicated for the last year of his life via blinks".

 Sep 7, 2005  •  tags: stephenhawking disabled physics science magazines elle