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Queen of England Visits Google Offices

by Lee Bains, posted Oct 17th 2008 at 6:10PM


Yesterday, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, visited with Google staff at the company's UK headquarters in London, News.com.au reports.

In honor of its distinguished guest, Google UK customized the homepage 'Google' logo, replacing the second 'g' with a silhouetted profile of the Queen and topping the final 'e' with an image of a crown. In addition to this online homage, the Queen received a thorough tour of the company's offices and services. While the Queen comported herself with, we're sure, her trademark graciousness, Prince Philip managed to give one casually dressed Google employee a good old-fashioned ribbing. "Just come back from jogging?" the Prince asked.

With a technological awareness remarkable for a woman of her generation, the Queen was apparently already familiar with the Google-owned YouTube, mentioning her own Royal Channel on that Web site. [From: News.com.au]

Queen Guitarist Brian May Writes Astrophysics Thesis

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Aug 5th 2008 at 6:15PM



For Brian May, playing guitar for legendary rock band Queen was just a distraction from his quest for a doctorate in Astrophysics. The guitar god's thesis titled 'A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud' examines the phenomena of Zodiacal light, a dim cone of light that can be seen in the western sky just after sunset and in the eastern sky before dawn.

The light is caused by the reflection of sunlight off of interplanetary debris and dust, though in dark rural areas the glow has been confused for the first light of dawn. May's thesis focused on a series of measurements taken in 1971 and 1972 by the The Fabry-Perot Spectrometer in the Canary Islands.

Of course, Brian May isn't the first musician to fly his geek flag or to spend time pursuing academic accomplishments. Here are a few more famous musicians who are probably smarter than you are:
  • Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine graduated From Harvard. As did Rivers Cuomo of Weezer.
  • All of the founding members of Devo attended Kent State University.
  • Colin Greenwood, bassist for Radiohead, graduated from Cambridge University.
  • John Mayer is an avid tech geek and Blackberry fiend.
  • Dexter Holland of Offspring was a PHD candidate in molecular biology at USC.
  • Art Garfunkel has both a BA in Art History and a Master's in Mathematics from Columbia University.
[Source: USA Today]

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