GREAT IDEAS
   

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Calendar

Moon phase


Highlights:

Norbert Wiener

IG-NOBEL 2005

The Da Vinci Code

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

The Solomon Key

NOBEL MEDICINE 2004

IG-NOBEL PRIZES
2004

The first email

Concerned Scientists write to Bush

Economics Nobel 2003

Chemistry Nobel 2003

Medicine Nobel 2003
Literature Nobel 2003

Physics Nobel 2003

Life on Mars ?
Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of Double Helix

Good Bye Dolly
On Stonehenge
The Loss of Columbia
IG Nobel 2002
The invention of :-)
West Nile Virus
Asteroid Impact?
Molecule Hunt
Tuxedo Park
Ancient Trade Routes
Pop Singer to Fly In Space
Great Ideas

Computational Genomics

Bioinformatics


Baraka

The Universe in a Nutshell
Copenhagen, the Play
Count of Monte Cristo
Nobel Prize 2001
John Nash
Echelon
Kernel Methods

Ig-Nobel Prize
Einstein's Brain
Space Turism
Floating City
Mir's Blast
Origins
Great Books
Nobel Prize
In the mind of:
Serial Killers
The secret shuttle
Are we aliens?
Studying ET
Dinosaurs
Bonobo
Pattern Analysis
Early Vibrators
and Hysteria
The CYB.ORGs
among us
Book: Darwin
Book: Russell

 


The introduction of new ideas in civilization is a fundamental component of progress. Still, really great ideas are rare, their occurrence does not seem to follow any predictable pattern, and often are not recognized as such for a long time.
Great ideas have a long lasting impact, influence the way we think about ourselves or the way we live our life.

Do you have any examples that we should mention in our growing list ?
PLEASE SEND US WHAT YOU THINK IS A GREAT IDEA THAT WE SHOULD INCLUDE IN OUR LIST, AND WHY:
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The 2005 IG Nobel Prizes were awarded in a ceremony at Harvard University.

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