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The "Phylogeny" of Scientific Life.
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Jobs, News and Views for All of Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed :: Early (Encouraging) Data on Early Colleges
Stopping atoms A "coil-gun" method for slowing atomic beams without lasers, from the Raizen group at Texas

Myhrvold's idea of running a company that does nothing but generate patents and license them out is interesting. But to patent something, don't you need a working example of it? If so, you can't just have smart people thinking stuff up, you also need engineers and technicians to create the darn things. And I don't see any mention of that in the article.