So a rich and serious week indeed, with one monster attention-grabbing event but a herd of others, equally elephantine in importance, creating their own thrilling stampede.
Why? Partly it's a matter of increased media savviness – in recent years large research centres like Cern have become considerably cleverer at turning the often incremental nature of scientific progress into attention-grabbing events.
It was a but a blip in the raucous carnival that the Presidential campaign has been, a flash-in-the-pan moment instantly overshadowed by more headline grabbing events.
But when we look at the 10Xers, we see people like Mr. Gates who recognize luck and seize it, leaders who grab luck events and make much more of them.
A duplicate kit of required medication, supplies or food, packed and prepared, to be grabbed in event of an evacuation?
But for now I'm really looking forward to heading back to Israel for the awesome Techonomy3 (grab tickets here) event, and before it, Kinnernet.
So take a look at our timeline of summer events, grab your smartphone and start plugging in your favorite ways to make some noise.
Grab sampling and event-based monitoring revealed influent concentrations of E. coli were typical of other urban stormwater studies, yet Campylobacter concentrations were orders of magnitude above those urban stormwater studies used to develop the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling, reached levels typical of raw domestic wastewater.
For the first time you can now grab live collision events from the underground detectors in Geneva, and beam them direct to your own device.
While you're filling your calendar with holiday parties and networking events, grab your mobile phone and let's get started.
