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The Russell-Einstein manifesto warned nuclear weapons could end humanity. The physicist felt remorse over his role in the atomic bomb.

The Russell-Einstein manifesto warned nuclear weapons could end humanity. The physicist felt remorse over his role in the atomic bomb.

The so-called “Double Diamond” is a great way of visualizing an ideal design process — but it’s just not the way most companies deliver new projects or services. Andy Budd proposes a new “Double Diamond” idea that better aligns with the way work actually gets done and highlights the place where design has the most leverage.

Albert Einstein is dead. Bohemia, too, no longer exists. They have ascended to the realm of myths and legends, become words to conjure with—yet they are not, in general, invoked together.

Albert Einsteins contrarian personality and capacity to visualize helped him to revolutionize physics. He used his fame to champion pacifism. But, faced with a rising brutal autocracy in Germany, he encouraged weaponization of one of his greatest discoveries.

The Martians of Budapest”, sometimes referred to as simply “The Martians” is a colloquial term used to describe a group of prominent Hungarian physicists and mathematicians who emigrated to the United States following the Great Purge of 1933. The term refers to—what appeared, from the perspective of Americans—to be a group of men with superhuman intellects, arriving from an obscure country speaking an incomprehensible foreign language and English with strong, characteristic accents (la...