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?The planets have a beat,? said Dr. Oded Aharonson, snapping his fingers. Skyped in from Israel into a Manhattan boardroom on May 10, Aharonson is a scientist who has operated the rover on Mars. Some of his pictures of Titan are among those that have given us, on earth, a more accurate perspective on what it means to live in a solar system.
He held up a basketball, partly because he needed a round object to show the oscillations of the earth?s climate cycles and partly because the Tomorrow Lab Summit was being hosted by and is a community partner of NBA Cares. NBA Commissioner David Stern was one of the two men at the head of the table and the other was Marshall Levin, the President and CEO of the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, the organization that created the Tomorrow Lab project to support the mission of science for the benefit of humanity.
Every 20,000 years, Aharonson explained, earth?s orbit changes and summer occurs closer or further from the sun. Every 40,000 years or so, the poles point more toward the sun, which changes the climate of the planet. Every 100,000 years, the furthest point from the sun moves in and out. The glacial cycles are connected in this way to the beat of the planet?s movement, which is one of the reasons why we?ve had climate change on our planet in the past. But it isn?t the beat of that particular dance, he warned, that?s causing the massive global warming we?re experiencing today.
As a girl on spring break, Jennifer Lopez, shown here at the Tomorrow Lab Summit, loved reading Brian Greene while her friends flipped through fashion magazines. She later went on to study molecular biology and now, as a philanthropist, focuses on social entrepreneurship.(Image by Rita J. King)
I looked across the table at Jennifer Lopez, director of strategic partnerships at PopTech, who I?d met only a couple of weeks ago on April 23 after a talk I gave about the future of business at the intersection of science and art. We connected instantly, animated by our shared passion for getting girls excited about science and math. During a rapid-fire exchange we learned that we share a role as supporters of the Tomorrow Lab project. We agreed on the spot to start collaborating. She came to visit me at Science House a few days later to discuss ways we could prepare for the Tomorrow Lab Summit. When I told her Brian Greene would be there, her face lit up.
?On spring break,? she told me, ?I was the one reading The Elegant Universe while my friends flipped through magazines. I love quasars!?
Science House founder James Jorasch and I first met with Marshall and his team a couple of years ago. We committed to Tomorrow Lab when we began to learn about the jaw-dropping accomplishments of the Weizmann Institute. The news coming out of Weizmann is always stunning, so we were happy to record videos of ourselves (here?s mine) telling stories about our passion for science and what it means to us. James?s video is about a memorable teacher who sparked his imagination. These videos become leaves on the tree of humanity that Tomorrow Lab aims to create, a repository of stories about the personal impact of science in our lives that others can support to keep the work at Weizmann going strong.
Each person at the Tomorrow Lab summit similarly described the passion that attracted them to the project. As I listened, I sensed a seismic shift in the future of the effort. Somehow, we managed to eat sandwiches while theoretical physicist Brian Greene reminded us of the underlying weirdness at the subatomic scale within the illusion we perceive as reality. Jennifer and I glanced at each other across the table and raised our eyebrows, a silent reminder of the promise we made to get a picture of ourselves with Brian Greene before the summit?s end.
In an infinite multiverse, theoretical physicist Brian Greene could have been anywhere on May 10, but he was at the Tomorrow Lab Summit with Rita J. King, left, and Jennifer Lopez, right. (Image by Tracy Day)
The more tangible proof of the power of science came when not one, but two people at the table shared stories about having survived brain tumors. Matthew Zachary, founder of Stupid Cancer, shared a glimpse of a terrifying moment in his life when, as a concert pianist and 21-year old college senior, he lost the use of his left hand, was diagnosed with a brain tumor and told that he might not survive. The group also included investors looking to channel significant resources into the future of science, publishers, strategists and editors of prominent publications looking to infuse their content for girls with the exciting presence of women they might want to emulate.
Allison Arden, publisher of AdvertisingAge and author of The Book of Doing, spoke about creativity and sending a pumpkin through the mail because she discovered that it was possible to do so. What else, she wondered, is possible?
It?s rare for a meeting to start with a mention of the shared beat of the planets and have the snap of a distant scientist?s fingers continue to keep silent time for two hours until the rhythm animates the people in the room. Tomorrow Lab has set a mission for us, and we are in service of that shared goal: to support science for the benefit of humanity, right here on the tiny blue planet that we share. We need all earthlings on board.
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TOKYO (AP) ? Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. has named a new president as it reshuffles top management while seeking to restore profitability after reporting a record loss of 545.4 billion yen ($5.4 billion).
The Osaka-based maker of Aquos TVs said Tuesday that Kozo Takahashi, currently an executive vice president, will become its president and CEO as of June 25 as part of a business reorganization aimed at returning to the black in the fiscal year ending March 2014 after years of losses.
Sharp's main banks have extended it 150 billion yen ($1.48 billion) in fresh loans to help it meet a repayment deadline looming in September.
The company said it planned to beef up its loss-making liquid crystal display panel business as part of its alliance with South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) ? In Iran, Olympic wrestling champion Jordan Burroughs felt like Justin Bieber, LeBron James and Tom Brady all rolled into one.
Not so much in his home country, though the New Jersey native was greeted by more than a dozen television cameras Tuesday when the American team arrived at the United Nations for a news conference with the Iranian and Russian squads.
Wrestling's leaders hope sports fans do a double-take when they see those three countries in the same sentence ? to prove a point about the sport's universality. The International Olympic Committee has recommended that wrestling be dropped starting with the 2020 Games, a decision that has a lot of people talking about the sport.
"It was like a double-edged sword. It's bittersweet," Burroughs said. "We're fighting for our lives, but in retrospect, we're getting more attention than we've ever received. Walking in here and seeing all these cameras, you're like, 'What the heck's going on?' It's not a lot of times we get this much press."
The United States will face fellow wrestling powers Iran and then Russia in exhibitions Wednesday at Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal. It's not the first time a wrestling meet has sprung up at a famed New York City locale ? this is the fourth straight year such an event has been held to raise money for wrestling nonprofit Beat the Streets, with the last two in Times Square.
And it's not the first time the Iranians have competed in the U.S., though they hadn't been back since the world championships in this same city a decade ago. But February's unexpected IOC decision changed everything, and the organizers' goal is for "The Rumble on the Rails" to be much more than just another charitable event or international exhibition.
They hope the IOC is watching and notices the symbolism.
"I think they are. They have to. Three superpowers in the world are telling them to put it back in," said Kyle Dake, who will be competing in his first major senior-level international event after becoming the first wrestler to win NCAA titles in four weight classes.
Wrestling is now one of eight sports seeking to fill one spot in the 2020 Olympics. The IOC board will meet May 29 in Russia to recommend a short list, with the final decision in September.
Wednesday's meet is one of many events around the world this month to promote the sport. The Iranians will also wrestle the Americans in Los Angeles on Sunday.
All these efforts to publicize the sport are among the lessons of the IOC's decision. Wrestling leaders are rethinking everything from their governance structure to their rules.
There's a sense the sport will emerge stronger from these tribulations ? if it emerges as an ongoing part of the Olympics.
"It's a weird feeling," said U.S. freestyle coach Zeke Jones. "Wrestling's not going away. It's what humans do; it's innate in mankind. But you have this feeling of, 'Man, we're getting better right now when we might not be in the Olympic Games.'"
Staying in the Olympics is a matter of national pride in Iran and Russia. Rasoul Khadem, Iran's technical manager, explained it this way through a translator: "Where I come from, wrestling is not just a sport; it is a part of culture and history."
Days after the IOC announcement, Burroughs and the U.S. team competed at the World Cup in Tehran. The Iranian fans kept asking for his T-shirts. Burroughs and other teammates shook hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a gesture of goodwill.
Burroughs said he saw the movie "Argo," about the 1979 hostage crisis, about a week later and was glad he didn't watch it before the trip because "I would've been freaking out." Now he feels he has a more nuanced view of the country.
Whether Iranians' opinions of the U.S. have been affected by wrestling's show of unity is unclear. Iran's state media did not report much on the arrival of the American wrestlers, which may stem from the official anger over the sanctions that have hit Iran's critical oil exports and blacklisted the country from international financial networks. The attention was much greater in 1998 when U.S. wrestlers competed in Iran for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which cut ties between the countries.
Dake, the former Cornell star, hears from friends: "Are you really wrestling Iran? That is amazing. That has bigger implications than just wrestling. That has huge political implications."
But to wrestling veterans like Jones, a 1992 Olympic silver medalist, the Iranians are just friendly rivals. He's visited their homes, dined with their families.
"U.S. and Iran have this tension publicly. Really, I sit down and have dinner with them all the time," Jones said. "Kind of sounds odd, right?"
Khadzhimurad Magomedov, one of the Russian coaches and a 1996 Olympic gold medalist, also finds that events like this week's feel like reunions.
"We are eager to show here how friendly the wrestlers are to each other," he said through a translator.
Russia's contingent includes 2009 world silver medalist Rasul Dzhukaev at 163 pounds. Iran is led by two-time world champion Mehdi Taghavi Kermani at 145? pounds and Olympic bronze medalists Ehsan Lashgari at 185 pounds and Komeil Ghasemi at 264? pounds.
Burroughs, the reigning Olympic gold medalist at 163 pounds, promises some big throws and high-flying takedowns for the fans who bought tickets to Wednesday's event. Rich Bender, USA Wrestling's executive director, expects some serious passion from the wrestlers considering the stage and the stakes. The Iran match will be on NBC Sports Network, with the Russia match on Universal Sports.
"It's their canvas," he said. "It's their opportunity to articulate to people the good in wrestling."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-russia-iran-save-olympic-wrestling-180904996.html
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While AMD announced its new Temash APU (alongside others) at this year's CES, the only device we've seen sporting it was an intriguing reference hybrid that made the rounds at the show. Now, details of an Acer Aspire V5 notebook have emerged, indicating the company is preparing its first Temash-powered device for general consumption. Acer already has a trio of Aspire V5 models with Intel Core processors and NVIDIA handling the graphics, but a half-complete product page for an unannounced V5-122P-0643 swaps those components out for AMD's wares. Formally called the AMD A6-1450, the Temash APU combines a quad-core 1GHz processor -- or 1.4GHz in "Turbo" state -- with a Radeon HD 8280 GPU. When put into tablets, it has an unusually low, sub-5W power envelope that allows for passive cooling. While we don't know exactly what wattage this Acer notebook will have, the presence of Temash should bode well for battery life. Head past the break for more details.
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