The Marks of Man

From the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/business/12stream.html Intuition + Money: An Aha Moment By JOHN MARKOFF Published: October 11, 2008 IT started with a Harvard physicist acting on a hunch. It ended up producing a new material, called black silicon, that could have a broad impact on technologies ranging from ultrasensitive sensors to photovoltaic cells. Rick Friedman for The New York Times James Carey, left, and Stephen Saylor of SiOnyx with black silicon wafers. Harvard plans to announce it has licensed patents for black silicon to the company. On Monday, Harvard plans to announce that it has licensed patents for black silicon to SiOnyx, a company in Beverly, Mass., that has raised $11 million in venture financing. This would never have happened if the physicist, Eric Mazur, and his graduate students had stuck to the original purpose of their research. He says their experience offers a lesson in government financing of science

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Bown Jane Bown (born 1925) is a British photographer who has worked for The Observer newspaper in the United Kingdom since 1949. Her portraits of the famous of the 20th and 21st centuries have received critical acclaim, earning her an exhibition of her work in the National Portrait Gallery in London in 1980. John Lennon , 1963. She works primarily in black-and-white , using available light, with a forty year old camera. She has photographed hundreds of subjects, including Queen Elizabeth II for her eightieth birthday, Orson Welles , Samuel Beckett , Sir John Betjeman , Woody Allen , Cilla Black , Quentin Crisp , P. J. Harvey , John Lennon , Truman Capote , John Peel , Richard Nixon , the gangster Charlie Richardson , Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer , Jarvis Cocker , Jayne Mansfield , Diana Dors , Henri Cartier-Bresson , Eve Arnold , Evelyn Waugh , Jean Cocteau , Brassai and Margaret Thatcher . Her extensive photojournalism output in

Federico Borrell García, a young Republican militiaman in the Spanish civil war, died, it now seems certain, on September 5 1936, shot by Francoist rebels on a hillside in Cerro Muriano near Cordoba. His death might have gone unremarked, except that the image of that moment was celebrated for 40 years as one of the most famous war photographs of the 20th century. It was not Borrell's name that was famous - his identity was established only relatively recently - but that of Robert Capa, whose reputation was made by the photograph. Then, in 1975, came the suggestion that Capa had faked the picture. Now new evidence suggests another, darker twist to the story and adds a new dimension to the complex ethics of reporting war. The first doubts were raised by journalist Phillip Knightley, in his book on media and propaganda war, The First Casualty, in which he alleged that Capa had staged the scene for the camera. Knightley discovered that the picture had first been published in