“I like you, because you join in on my weirdness.”
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A new high-performance 3D microbattery may provide large-scale, on-chip mircoelectronic device integration
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Baby Sting Rays
New mitochondrial DNA editing technique prevents genetic diseases in mice
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Could Common Core Help Grow Arts Education in Schools?
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Recover Word Doc
You can recover those files that you accidentally closed and thought you couldnt get back. Right after that happens, open Microsoft Word again and click File – Info – Manage Versions – Recover Unsaved Documents.
Just watch this guy voice all of Robin Williams’ iconic characters in 2 minutes
New cancer treatment halts the growth of aggressive melanoma in mice
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The Evolution of Catwoman: From 1966 to Today
The new Odd Couple of #Scifi spreading across the galaxy.
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Twelve Tomorrows: science fiction inspired by today’s new technologies:
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8 Things That Make You Feel Rich That Have Nothing To Do With Money
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Sometimes, you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.
Early Bird Gets The Worm: The Only Tip You Need To Increase Productivity
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MIT Review: Paralyzed Again
We have the technology to dramatically increase the independence of people with spinal-cord injuries. The problem is bringing it to market and keeping it there.
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THE AFTERLIFE OF BLADE RUNNER
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Protecting the environment begins in the heart, says Buddhist leader
photo by Michael Marsland
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Here’s How to Reinvent Yourself
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Get it Done: 35 Habits of the Most Productive People (Infographic)
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8 things you’ll never say if you’re a book nerd
http://hellogiggles.com/say-youre-book-nerd
Edward Witten – Scientist
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Edward Witten is a scientist recognized for his research contributions to string theory, M-theory, quantum gravity and supersymmetry. Born in Baltimore in 1951, Witten was originally a history major at Massachusetts’ Brandeis University, attaining his bachelor’s degree in 1971. Five years later he obtained a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton after first earning a master’s degree from the same school. Witten has been described as “the most brilliant physicist of his generation” and “the world’s greatest living theoretical physicist.” In 2004 TIME magazine included him on its annual rundown of the 100 most influential people in the world. Although he is a physicist, Witten has had a major effect on mathematics, and he has a slew of awards to his name, including the Fields Medal, the Dirac Prize, the Albert Einstein Medal and the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics. He is currently a professor at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Anton Chekhov on the 8 Qualities of Cultured People
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These 4 properties are:
Amplitude: this is the size of the displacement for the disturbance. The units for amplitude depend on the type of wave. For a string, the units would be meters.
Wave speed: if you were to watch one displacement, it would be moving. The wave speed is the speed (that seems redundant). The unit for wave speed is meters per second.
Wavelength: this is the distance from one disturbance to the next measured in meters|
Frequency: if you were to count how many waves passed a stationary point in each second, that would be the frequency (in cycles per second or Hertz).
The last three properties are related. The speed of the wave is equal to the product of the wavelength and the frequency.
So, light is a wave. This means that it has all the above properties and can do wavey things such as: Expand and radiate in all directions (like a lightbulb or the waves in the water caused by a rock).
Interfere with other waves.
Bend around corners (yes, light does this – but it’s difficult to see).
Carry energy and momentum.
Interact with matter.
Light does all these things.
19 year old builds $350 mind controlled robot arm
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There’s no other way to say this: A 109-year-old man is knitting penguin sweaters
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First people going to Mars
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Today, the US Postal Service honored MIT’s first African-American graduate, Robert Robinson Taylor with a stamp.
President Reif spoke at the occasion, saying, ““As we honor the legacy of Robert Taylor, today’s ceremony reminds us that he was a builder…not only of structures, but of communities…”
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