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...It’s refreshing to see honesty in the title of this new freshman seminar. Quantum mechanics is, in fact, very weird and Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman knows it. According to the course guide, quantum mechanics “simply makes no sense.” Freshmen up for a challenge, take note...
...primary battle against Hank Johnson, an African-American former county commissioner, and John Coyne, a white businessman, McKinney is taking a low profile, which she successfully employed in 2004. "Can Cynthia McKinney be weird enough to lose that seat?" said one D.C. Democratic strategist who asked to remain anonymous. It would "take a lot of weirdness." The strategist added: "She has created this sense that she is a victim of persecution and that creates an identification between her and a lot of people in her district...
...weird," Jessi said later, sitting at her kitchen table, her pain medications lined up in front of her beside a glass of chocolate milk. The very word makes her sad. "For 20 years, no one knew my name. Now they want my autograph. But I'm not a hero. If it makes people feel good to say it, then I'm glad. But I'm not. I'm just a survivor. When I think about it, it keeps me awake at night...
Collins' life, although told many times in the press during the genome race, remains appealingly weird and inspiring. He was born on an outhouse-equipped Virginia "dirt farm" - but his Yale-educated parents had earlier returned to the land as part of a rural-community experiment under Eleanor Roosevelt's patronage. Home-schooled and solitary, their brilliant fourth son pursued his inclinations through a Yale dissertation on quantum mechanics - but then swerved, first to an M.D. and next to the field of genetics, whose astonishing precision and lifesaving potential were becoming manifest...
It’s refreshing to see honesty in the title of this new freshman seminar. Quantum mechanics is, in fact, very weird and Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman knows it. According to the course guide, quantum mechanics “simply makes no sense.” Freshmen up for a challenge, take note...