Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
A leading theoretical physicist, Nima Arkani-Hamed is on the cusp of discovery that will further illuminate notions presented by Albert Einstein.
The brilliant, young physicists currently sits on the faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where Einstein pursued his theories from 1933 until his death in 1955.
At ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
In the 1977 movie Oh God!, Georges Burns, playing God, quips to John Denver about creating the world, "to tell you the truth I thought about it for 6 days and did the whole thing in 1."
We have all crammed for tests because there is nothing like the pressure, imposed ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
This summer movie season is full well educated fictional characters, whose educational accomplishments are as amazing as the super powers.
Iron Man
Tony Stark, the star of this years box office smash, was a boy genius, who entered MIT at the age of 15. He graduated with summa cum laude.
Indiana Jones ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
The San Diego County district attorney's office has divulged that 96 students from San Diego State University were arrested in a drug bust. A five month undercover operation unearthed the drug operation, which involved buyers and sellers.
The officers seized 50 pounds of marijuana, marijuana plants, four pounds of cocaine, ecstasy ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
The Ivy League has retained the crown as being the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 2007-2008 College & University Green Power Challenge. The EPA ranks 40 green colleges and universities by their cumulative annual purchase of green power.
For a school to enter the EPA ranking, it must buy at least 10 ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Many parents are shocked to learn that colleges no longer require separate dorm rooms for males and females. Coed dorm are in staunch contrast to the college dorms, experienced by Baby Boomer parents .
Students and schools have stated that the request stem from a need for comfortable rooming, rather than ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Technology was supposed to set us free. Bring the world together with the ability to communicate with anyone, anytime. MIT psychologist, Sherry Turkle believes that gadgets are ushering in major linguistic change, dominated by text-messaging or instant-messaging argot. She argues that Western Society is entering the age of “linguistic whateverism”. ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
No matter what your master plan for life is, if you are currently in college, your next move will inevitably involve searching for a job. This can be a confusing and stressful time for many graduates, as they struggle to determine what field of work they are interested in. Sure, ...
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