“Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy — every dollar. Today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s. They’re developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs, devising new materials to make batteries 10 times more powerful. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation.”
—Barack Obama, “Project Seeks to Build Map of Human Brain,” 2013
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF
bits.blogs.nytimes.comSteve Wilhite, who invented the enduring GIF file format in 1987, will receive a lifetime achievement Webby Award.
He is proud of the GIF, but remains annoyed that there is still any debate over the pronunciation of the format.
“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Mr. Wilhite said. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”
Gif guff? Or respect to the ‘jif’?
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking
nytimes.comThe Germans had vastly more work camps and ghettos than anyone knew.
