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Category: Nikola Tesla
Three years ago it was a big round number. This year, it's the Google logo:...
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Category: Nikola Tesla
Guru alerts me to a sweet article about Nikola Tesla and how he is inspiring writers and artists - Tesla Slept Here by Mark Singer in the latest New Yorker : The Tesla saga has provided fodder for an opera,...
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Category: Nikola Tesla
From here (hat-tip)....
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Category: Nikola Tesla
This day, Tesla's birthday, is proposed to become the Global Energy Independence Day. Let's make it happen! If you don't know much about Tesla, my last years' post about him may be of some help.......
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For a blogger - by definition on the cutting edge of technology - I am quite a Luddite. Perhaps that is too strong a term and I should rather call myself a "patient techno-skeptic". I watch the development of new...
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It came to me so naturally - no big thinking involved, no tweaking the results, this is who I am: Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey....
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Category: Nikola Tesla
It's 45 minutes long, but it is worth your time: (Via)...
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I've been waiting for this movie to come out since April. Now, it is not playing in the theater up the street. Perhaps I'll have to go elsewhere, driving, finding parking...but see it I will!...
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Category: Nikola Tesla
Everything you ever wanted to know about Tesla, you can find here - an amazing collection of links....
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Category: Nikola Tesla
Today is the 150th birthday of Nikola Tesla. Here is an attempt to put in one place as much as can be found about the celebrations of his birthday and birth-year, the information about Tesla, the mentions in the...
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