“If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0.”
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in 1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to the ruler of Venice, Leonardo Donato, and his council. Galileo had made the telescope by fitting a convex lens in one end of a lead tube and a concave lens in the other end. The prototype magnified by a factor of three. By 1610 he had boosted the magnification to a factor of 33 and discovered the moons of Jupiter.
The salary information company PayScale asked 68,000 US workers if they felt underemployed – that is, if they did not make full use of their knowledge, training and experience. On average, 43% said yes. The chart below breaks down the responses by undergraduate major. Physics majors are among the least underemployed.
8 habits every student should master before graduation | USA TODAY College
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How to Become A Genius: Insights & Exercises for Learning How to Innovate
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Shakespeare Folio Discovered in French Public Library
“The book was discovered this fall by librarians at a public library in St.-Omer, near Calais, who were sifting through its collections for an exhibition on English-language literature. The title page and other introductory material were torn off, but Rémy Cordonnier, the director of the library’s medieval and early modern collection, suspected that the book — cataloged as an unexceptional old edition — might in fact be a first folio.”
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Esa-Pekka Salonen’s invigorating classical-music series at London’s Southbank Centre begins tomorrow. Called “City of Light: Paris 1900-1950” you can expect French composers on the bill.
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William Blake’s Breathtaking Drawings for Dante’s Divine Comedy, Over Which He Labored Until
His Dying Day
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Illuminating the Interactome: A massive screen yields the most comprehensive map of binary human protein interactions to date.
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The Harvard/Yale football rivalry is one of the oldest in college sports. Here’s a look back at the 1878 Harvard Football Club. Go Crimson!
The Graphic Canon of Children’s Literature: Comic Artists Reimagine Beloved Childhood Classics, from Tolstoy’s Fairy Tales to Harry Potter
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Neuroaesthetics
Researchers unravel the biology of beauty and art.
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The MorpHex ball plays along with the child
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5 Unbelievable houses…
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Watch a Baltimore city street with cars parked on it vanish in just a few seconds.
The Surprising History of the Pencil
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What Girls Are Good For – Nellie Bly’s fierce 1885 response to a patronizing chauvinist, which launched her career as a pioneering journalist.
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“Because the world needs people like MIT students. It’s that simple.” – Priscilla King Gray, co-founder of the MIT Public Service Center, which helps MIT achieve its mission of working for the betterment of humankind.
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