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The Original Blue LED

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Days after the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to three Japanese-born scientists for their work with LED lights, CHF’s Benjamin Gross and retired physicist Jonathan Allen visited The College of New Jersey’s Sarnoff Collection, a small electronics museum where Ben serves as curator and Jonathan volunteers. Their target: what they described as the original LED, made in 1972 by an RCA researcher named Herb Maruska. With Herb on speakerphone (hooked up to one of the collection’s antique speakers, of course), Ben and Jonathan set out to light up the old contraption.

Spielman Bagels’ Co-Founder Rick Spielman Has Died

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“One of the things I’ve been hearing from people recently is how much they remembered his enthusiasm,” his son says. “He would become interested with a subject and then just fully immerse himself in learning all about it. When he saw you, he couldn’t wait to tell you about it.”

Sad. He was always super friendly, and one time introduced me to his salmon cream cheese guy.

Giving a Shit as a Service

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I used to puzzle over why potential clients who reached out to me always seemed to get more interested in hiring us if I tried to dissuade them by asking challenging questions. I think the biggest reason is that pushing back demonstrated that I care. If you email 4 software studios for a quote and 3 say “Sure, here’s a quote” but the 4th says “Hm, we certainly could build it but we can’t be sure about cost without knowing X and Y, and here are some other concerns we’d have” then the 4th is going to seem like they give a shit.

I see this.