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May 2009 sees the new Star Trek movie getting rave reviews – I happen to think the most notable performance is a little cameo by Randy Pausch, read on to find out why. I first came across the name of Randy Pausch via someone who knew I liked the area of goal achievement. Pausch was [...]

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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is scheduled to speak at the University of Colorado tonight. Stevens is expected to talk about constitutional law and the Supreme Court at 5 p.m. at CU’s law school to inaugurate a new series of lectures named for him. The lecture is free [...]

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On February 14, 2008, nearly six months ago to the day of writing this, seven of us were given one year to live. now before you get concerned, I would like to be clear, this was not a medical diagnosis, nor was it anything like a suicide pact among friends. It was instead a commitment [...]

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Randolph Frederick “Randy” Pausch October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008 was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University CMU in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch learned that he had pancreatic cancer, a terminal illness, in September of 2006. he gave an upbeat lecture entitled “The last Lecture: really [...]

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I listened to the audio book “the Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch for the second time. I felt that this time it was more meaningful. However, I will not go into any further detail of what meaning I derived from this book. I feel that this book will touch different people in different ways. So, [...]

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