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...near future. Ritesh Agarwal, a former Harvard postdoctoral associate, published a paper this week in Optics Express on a new technique for assembling and arranging nanowires, which are smaller than any circuitry currently available, even on microchips. The ability to construct specific, three-dimensional, nano-scale devices at the whim of a researcher has until this week been elusive. Because nanowires also have the ability to direct light, they have potential applications in “optoelectronic” devices, which use light instead of electricity to do computations. Agarwal, working with Professors David G. Grier...
...hate Brenda Walsh, or more particularly the actress who plays her on TV's Beverly Hills 90210. That was easy. Old boyfriends called her rage prone, co-workers called her snotty, landlords called her a deadbeat. Unfortunately, marrying ; the 19-year-old son of George Hamilton -- on a girlish whim -- did nothing to help Shannen appear mature. Said to be generally just too much of a pain, she reportedly won't be asked back...
Zakharevich said she first encountered sudoku in a book that she purchased on a whim. After completing only two or three puzzles, however, she said they had already begun to lose their appeal. She recalls repeatedly following the same process to obtain answers...
...competition.Enter Canadian Henley, a well-known regatta that ran during this summer from August 2 to 7 in St. Catherines, Ontario, and attracts teams from across North America.“We started thinking about it in June,” Rose said. “On a whim one night we were like ‘Let’s do this.’ We registered online while we were sitting around in Katie’s room in DeWolfe.”Part of the registration process required a team name. Naturally, the two turned...
Fundamentally, it will be a dangerous precedent if the government is able to tie federal funding to the whims of political opinion, invalidating the protection of the nondiscrimination code for all students. If the Pentagon really can take away massive grants that have literally nothing to do with the Department of Defense, there’s nothing but congressional restraint that stops them from changing any other university policy on a political whim. All students, whether queer or straight, conservative or progressive, powerful or powerless, should be concerned about the implications of that precedent for the sake of academic freedom...