April 2015

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln's website home page

The project “The Papers of Abraham Lincoln” was created in 1985 but earlier this month received a significant contribution that will support the digitization of the writings of Abraham Lincoln. Iron Mountain Incorporated, a storage and information management company, has announced a collaboration with the project by providing its services to enhance the archive to be made available online.

On Tuesday April 14 the basketball Euroleague 2014/2015 quarter-finals will start. This round will be played in a playoff series to the best of five games in which the teams qualified from each group will cross path the the ones qualified from the other group. The first classified teams of each group will play the fourth classified ones of the other group and the second classified ones of each group will play the third classified ones of the other group.

Lynda Weinman (Photo Douglas Kirkland)

LinkedIn, the biggest professional social network in the world, announced it reached an agreement to buy lynda.com, an online learning company for $1.5 billion that will be paid about 52% in cash and about 48% in stock. For LinkedIn it’s by far the largest acquisition made in its 12-year history.

A scheleton of Apatosaurus excelsus, which now might be renamed Brontosaurus excelsus

For more than a century the brontosaurus (photo ©Elika & Shannon) was considered a species of the genus Apatosaurus classified as Apatosaurus excelsus. The name brontosaurus kept on being commonly used but in the field of paleontology it was believed to be an Apatosaurus. However, now a group of scientists published the results of a very thorough search on the online magazine “PeerJ” which explains why the brontosaurus make an independent genus.