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...early June, and will reopen there on June 15. “This collection is heavily used by the faculty for teaching purposes, so this being in the Sackler is logistically great” says Beth S. Brainard, spokesperson for the Harvard College Libraries, who added that the design school will also benefit from proximity to these materials.The books, photographs, and graphic images will go to the basement of the Littauer building in the North Yard, which formerly held the economics and government departmental library, now housed in Lamont. As a result, stacks were already in place at the Littauer...
...researchers—who worked in conjunction with scientists from the Hamamatsu Photonics laboratory Japan—focused on decreasing the beam divergence of semiconductor lasers by affecting the design of the lasers through nanotechnology, rather than employing typically-used polarizers or laser plates...
...idea is that by using nanotechnology we can essentially design a laser beam with certain properties,” said Federico Capasso, an applied physics professor...
...Nick McCarthy counting in German. It is a sweetly silly love song as well as, yes, a tribute to trams: “Let us celebrate this monument of progress / We have reduced emissions by 75%.” Frontman Gruff Rhys sings, “I will design the town in the image of your face / Round the wrinkles of your eyes my footsteps you can trace,” his near-falsetto perfectly suiting both the playful lyrics and the gorgeous melody. The lyrics play on both environmentalism and the economy; not only does Rhys rhyme...
...executives at Apple (AAPL) were passing around the Dom Perignon, their counterparts at other companies which design and manufacture smartphones were putting all sharp objects out of reach. In a recession, there is only so much air in any room. Smart phone sales are suffering like all consumer electronics. If the iPhone is doing extraordinarily well, others are doing badly...