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Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University was asked to deliver a "Last Lecture" (a series designed to examine the final lessons the speaker would impart when facing their own mortality). For Randy the topic was anything but hypothetical - he had recently received a terminal cancer diagnosis. He delivered his lecture entitled: "Really achieving your childhood dreams" at Carnegie Mellon University on Sept. 18, 2007. Randy lost his cancer...
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"Computer scientist Harry Benson has experimental brain surgery to end his potentially dangerous seizures. Electrodes are attached to forty terminals of his brain to counteract his violent impulses. But there's no escaping his own mind. The experiment has backfired and the seizures return -- with a vengeance"--Container.
7) Viva Amiga
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In 1985, an upstart team of Silicon Valley mavericks launched what seemed to be a miracle: the Amiga computer. It was a machine made for creativity, for games, for art, and for expression. Breaking from the mold set by IBM and Apple, this was something new.
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