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Almost Famous: Leslie Fine of Crowdcast

in News on January 29, 2010 at 1:45 am PT

We Skyped with Leslie Fine, chief scientist at Crowdcast, an enterprise service that combines uber-geeky statistics and game theory from Caltech with games to help businesses predict their own future. We talked game theory, iPhone apps and her unfair advantage in the office pools.

Astronomers Delist Pluto, Citing Weaker-Than-Expected Dwarf Planethood

in News on June 15, 2007 at 2:14 pm PT

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in News on June 15, 2007 at 11:43 am PT

The scientific community really has it out for Pluto, doesn’t it? Delisted from the planetary rolls last year after a wholesale redefinition of planethood determined it was actually the largest of the dwarf planets, Pluto suffered another humiliation yesterday when astronomers announced that Eris, Pluto’s recently discovered neighbor, outweighs it by about 27%.