Word: techs
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About surface: craftsmanship in large buildings is supposed to be dead, killed by Modernist ideology and cost considerations. What this building says is that maybe craftsmanship has a high-tech future after all. To connect the de Young visually to its setting in Golden Gate Park, the architects have wrapped the structure in a copper skin embossed and perforated to produce, from a distance, the appearance of dappled sunlight filtering through trees. That pattern was copied from the blurred pixels of a digital photograph, then converted by computer into a blueprint to guide the manufacture of holes and indentations...
...gone 4-1, but struggled in two of its victories, before finally pulling away.North Carolina State has been too up-and-down to gauge this season, and a two touchdown loss seems to be the most likely result.Final Score: Florida State 38, North Carolina State 24Miami at Virginia Tech (-6.5)The Hurricanes are not the fifth-best team in the country.Miami’s schedule has to be one of the easiest in major college football. In a 14-day span, the Hurricanes played South Florida, Duke and Temple.On the other hand, the Hokies have looked very good...
...Warp) 4.5/5 It may seem ironic that pioneers in electronic music still tote around their tape recorders, but Boards of Canada’s Mike Sandison and Marcus Eoin are hardly exemplars of the high-tech urban culture. While many of Warp Records’ other IDM (so-called “intelligent dance music,” although it is seldom danceable) groups use the trendiest technology to produce cold, hyper-digitized beats, BoC has rejected “laptop music” and, instead, embraced the wavering grittiness of analog equipment and out-dated sound samplers...
...question now is whether politicians will prove themselves the equal of scientists. Biomedicine today is where high tech was in the 1990s--it's where the energy and excitement are. But scientists alone can't get lifesaving vaccines and treatments to the people who need them most--not without our help...
...reviews by peer institutions and recruiters, and the percentage of international students and faculty at the institution. Two hundred universities worldwide were ranked by THES. Yale and Princeton, ranked seventh and ninth respectively, were the only other Ivy League institutions to crack the top 10, which also included Cal Tech and France’s Ecole Polytechnique. Duke University rose from 52nd last year to tie the London School of Economics at number eleven this year. Martin J. Ince, a contributing editor at THES and the coordinator of the rankings, said that does not foresee Harvard’s dominance...