GreatPoint was founded by a trio of Boston friends who have made a career out of scrounging through old scientific literature for business ideas.

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If a more placid Gore and a more rambunctious and out-there Streiber are correct in their assessment of the scientific data (and perhaps the whispers of their ET friends are right) then hurricane Sandy is the first in a long line of coming superstorms.

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Snap an image of a bit of text from a scientific journal, and Google can serve up a copy of the entire article that you can share with friends, or save to read later.

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Among the luminaries who waltzed on stage for conversation were artificial intelligence godfather Marvin Minsky, Boston Scientific founder and billionaire John Abele, Oxbridgian longevity messiah Aubrey De Grey (who's got 536 friends on Facebook), Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard, sculptor Chuck Hoberman, Sims creator Will Wright, genomics pundit Juan Enriquez and computer scientist Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Along with various sovereign states, these "friends" include the Organization of the Islamic Conference (or OIC), the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (set up by the OIC), the Arab League, plus the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization.

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