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...pair of shoes. Tony Krupicka, one of the greatest young ultra-runners, has worn the same pair of crappy, cross-country flats for the past six years. It's actually one of the big debates in ultra-racing right now: some of the top competitors want there to be prize money, but the second money gets into it, the sport is ruined. Right now, there's a certain sense of amateurism and purity to the sport. I was crewing for ultra-runner Jen Shelton during one race, and she was gunning to win, but she ate a jalape...
...consolation prize, Quadlings? You have to take what get, right...
...consolation prize, Quadlings? You have to take what get, right...
Norman Y. Yao ’09 received the 2009 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize from the Radcliffe Institute for breakthrough research on the mechanical properties of cellular networks on Wednesday. Yao was selected for the honor from among the 83 winners of the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for the quality and impact of his senior thesis, which describes an innovative scientific technique to measure the properties of neurofilaments, one of the structural elements found in nerve cells. "More than anything, I am very humbled and honored to have been selected out of such an amazing group of [Hoopes Prize winners...
...Sunlight Foundation, a D.C.-based non-profit, has furthered that cause by launching Apps for America 2: the Data.gov Challenge, a competition that will award $25,000 in prize money to the developers of the applications that makes the best use of the information available on the site. "Government has made a move in the right direction - now it's time for us to show them what we can do," urges Clay Johnson, the director of Sunlight Labs...