As Wired quite dramatically put it: “The Man Who Cracked The Code to Everything… But first it cracked him. The inside story of how Stephen Wolfram went from boy genius to recluse to science renegade.” A remarkable tale about a remarkable scientist.
Archive for May, 2002
An Elardus Park mother of three described in detail how her daughter whimpered as she was led away by a gang of housebreakers to be gang-raped in an adjacent bathroom.
The son of Deputy Minerals and Energy Minister Susan Shabangu, was expelled from the Sunward Park High School in Boksburg on Wednesday for setting off a smoke bomb which injured ten pupils, SABC television news reported.
The wife of Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s Joseph Shabalala was murdered last night, right in front of the world famous musician.
A medical student at the University of Natal, Thokozile Ngesi, died at
Entabeni Hospital on Wednesday after she was shot in her residence
room, allegedly by a man she had charged with rape and abduction.
Scientists, researchers and welfare agencies warn that without “determined and dramatic” intervention, the soaring Aids deaths, particularly of young mothers, will turn the city streets into dangerous “no-go” areas. They paint a grim, nightmarish picture of bands of lawless children, armed to the teeth and rampaging for food and shelter, waging a war of survival against each other and society at large, much like a page from Lord of the Flies.
Delays by the department of home affairs have prompted Cape Town city councillor Jonathan Hulley to resign from the city council and join his
Portuguese-born wife in London.
It’s a card game not quite like any other card game. You make up the rules as you go along (sort of like the first time you taught friends
or siblings to play Monopoly) and there’s seldom a real clear winner.
Heaps of fun though, especially when combined with wit and alcohol.
Human body parts may be for sale on the streets in Johannesburg’s city centre, according to a hard-hitting documentary.
An SPCA manager, who “never had the heart to put down a dog or a cat”,
was found lying in a pool of blood in her office on Monday morning.
All that terrified hijacking victim Veronica Frey could see were the
evening stars through a tiny hole she had poked through the speaker in
her car’s boot. Her three tormentors had already hijacked her, robbed
her, sat on her and threatened to kill her in an ordeal that lasted
about 10 hours.
Joseph Frederick, the Juneau-Douglas High School senior suspended in
January for displaying a banner reading “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” during the
Olympic Torch Relay, is taking his case to court with the support of
the Alaska Civil Liberties Union.
In response to braindead comments made by Jamie Kellner, chairman and
CEO of Turner Broadcasting, Yale’s LawMeme compiled a list of ten
things that should, according to Kellner’s reasoning, be made illegal.
SF author Harlan Ellison has a quiet word about Isaac Asimov’s death and an egregious misreading of history. Continue reading ‘Muster the Goombahs’
