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High Table at Cambridge with Stephen Hawking

bughunter writes "Accomplished astrophysicist and SF author Gregory Benford shares a personal account of his recent conversation with Stephen Hawking at Reason Online. As usual, Benford's style is engaging and informal, and this doesn't read like a typical interview. Although the article is short on jargon, Benford and Hawking share insights on the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, as such minds are want to do. We even get a glimpse of Cambridge tunnel hacking. Of course, there's also a plug for Hawking's new book, The Universe in a Nutshell."

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  1. I saw him on Star Trek playing poker with Einstein by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He was grinning like an idiot just because he had 4 of a kind. Since when are physisists good poker players? They would get eaten alive in a high stakes game. Stick to the formulas, Stephen.

  2. Re:getting past the physical limitations by dustpuppy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Okay ... this comment is off-topic, but I think it would be hillariously funny is CmdrTaco's post got downvoted to -1 as a troll.

  3. Re:I saw him on Star Trek playing poker with Einst by packeteer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    silly... cards are just a giant ame of numbers... well for them its not so giant... a physicyst would be the best at cards that i cna think of... counting cards and making estimates on probability is what they are good at...

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  4. SlashDOS by Hellen+Back · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've tried to read 4 Slashdot-linked articles today and am 0 for 4. Somethings got to give

  5. Re:The Universe In a Nutshell by Shriek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    An image created in Gimp that is a picture of RMS.

  6. Grammar Nazi by Acy+James+Stapp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That should be "wont to do"

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