Archive for: Great Minds

Sep 28th, 2011

9 Ways to Self-Educate for Your New Business & its FREE

“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” -Lao Tzu My Own Business, Inc. Offers a free online business administration course that would be beneficial to new managers and to anyone who is interested in starting a business. This comprehensive course is split up into 16 sessions covering [...]

Jul 25th, 2011

Great Mind Series – Black Holes and Quantum Gravity

Stephen Hawking   January 8 1942- Hawking is known best for his theories of black holes, cosmology, and quantum gravity. He has also written several bestselling books such as: “A Brief History Of Time” and “The Universe In A Nutshell.” Though Stephen is currently bound to a wheelchair due to paralysis from Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS). [...]

Jul 9th, 2011

A cluster untangled. Why simplicity is strangely easier.

Written by Kevin B. Leigh Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect. It is so tempting to use everything you learned in school, everything you learned from your mentors and friends and wrap it up in one project. Complex ideas sometimes can be as simple as 1-2-3 but you have to be [...]

Jul 4th, 2011

Great Minds Series, Sight and Lightning.

Ben Franklin Overview In the words of a PBS documentary: “He was one of the most extraordinary human beings the world has ever known. Born into the family of a Boston candle maker, Benjamin Franklin became the most famous American of his time. He helped found a new nation and defined the American character. Writer, [...]

Jun 26th, 2011

Great Mind Series, Electricity

Nikola Tesla Tesla was a renowned physicist, inventor, and engineer. He has made phenomenal contributions to science and has been classified as the “world’s greatest electrical engineer.” Nikola engaged in studying many works, memorizing complete books, and supposedly had a photographic memory. Tesla had above average brain power and was an advanced thinker when compared to [...]

Jun 22nd, 2011

Grandparents: Besides Google, the single best source of knowledge.

Before my wife’s grand mother died, we went to visit her with a digital recorder and asked some questions. It was amazing, she told us of time past where they had not electricity. She lived through the great depression and told us of the hardships she faced because of lack of preparation. We even found out about an [...]

Jun 20th, 2011

Great Mind Series, Astronomer

Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was a noted American astronomer who was able to show that the universe is expanding. Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri and his studies at the University of Chicago concentrated on mathematics and astronomy which led to a B.S. degree in 1910. He spent the [...]

Jun 19th, 2011

Great Mind Series, Radioactivity

Written by Kevin B. Leigh Maria Sklodowska-Curie (November 7, 1867- July 4, 1934) was a pioneer in the early field of radiation and a Nobel laureate. Born in Warsaw, Poland, she moved to Paris and studied chemistry and physics at the Sorbonne, where she became the first woman to teach there. At the Sorbonne she met [...]