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Boonsboro, North High students compete in state Physics Olympics
Students and teachers from across Maryland gave up a Saturday for their love of physics at the annual Physics Olympics at the University of Maryland in College Park. On April 21, three teams from Washington County Public Schools competed in the event,...Tags: Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Science, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Science and Technology, Students
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Supreme Court won't hear case of ex-student's music download fine
BOSTON (AP) — A former Boston University student who was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs on the Internet says he will continue fighting the penalty, despite the Supreme Court's refusal Monday to hear his...
Tags: Smashing Pumpkins (music group), Arts and Culture, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Music, Nirvana (music group)
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Seniors become physics teachers for a day
Staff WriterHOLTVILLE — Explaining physics is a challenging task, even more so if the audience is made up by second-grade students. But Tuesday, Holtville High School seniors managed to use imagination and games to do exactly that as part of their final...Tags: Facebook, Science, Science and Technology
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From the Stacks – 'In the Wrong Rain' (1959)
The Daily MirrorHope died in the opening lines of “In the Wrong Rain,” and optimism succumbed a few pages later. Duty ground stubbornly ahead for a chapter or two before collapsing as well. Curiosity thumbed randomly through the book and then tossed...... -
Solar eclipse: Hundreds watch the show at Caltech center
At a quarter past five, the people in line outside Caltech’s Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics started to grow restless. Terry Lindoerfer took his homemade pinhole camera — a medium-sized cardboard box with aluminum foil taped over...
Tags: Science, Science and Technology
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Bob Smith dies at 78; inventor of fog-resistant ski goggles
At his kitchen table, orthodontist Bob Smith tried to solve a problem that dogged him on the ski slopes in the early 1960s by using dental tools and foam to fashion prototypes of fog-resistant goggles. As he developed what is commonly called the modern...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Science, Robert Earl, Health, Economy, Business and Finance
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Science Connections: Science Innovator Works to Turn Molecular Mysteries into Medical Applications
TribLocal - EvanstonBy Eric Eckstrom/Medill News Service When the president needs advice about questions in science, he often seeks out members of the National Academy of Sciences. …... -
Bookmark: Timing is everything
Take a minute, if you will, to consider the prominence of time travel as a theme in the arts. You don't have to be a brilliant but evil scientist huddled in a secret mountaintop laboratory, rubbing your hands together and cackling with glee as you...Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Terra Nova (tv program), John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Fox Broadcasting Company
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Everything comes back to the Bears
Football never has an offseason, and there’s always a way to make it about the Bears, whether the news comes from drugs, fashion or potential litigation. F’rinstance, Bill Parcells coming to the NFC North. That was the story from the New...
Tags: Julius Peppers, Kahlil Bell, Radio Industry, Caleb Hanie, Bill Parcells
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Climbing Kilimanjaro in the Name of Science
Physics is a natural science involving the study of matter and motion. So here’s a simple equation: with one man and one backpack, how much energy does it take to climb 19,500 feet? Douglas Alexander is solving that equation one step at a time. ...
Tags: Human Accomplishments, Science, Eastern Africa, Science and Technology, Douglas Alexander
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Allan Powell: Maryland plays a role in physics study
It would be interesting to know how many citizens of Maryland are aware of an experiment made in 1975-76, over a five-month period, to verify (or falsify) a prediction made by Albert Einstein about his theory of gravity. This experiment was directed by...Tags: Higgs Boson Search, Albert Einstein, Science, U.S. Navy, Manhattan (New York City)
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Shansksville senior leading the pack in chemistry competition
Daily American Sunday EditorRyan Ginter, 18, will be in a laboratory on Monday trying to out-perform 1,000 of the nation's top chemistry students in topics that include bonding and molecular structure, stoichiometry and solutions and also kinetics. The Shanksville-Stonycreek Area...Tags: Washington, DC, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
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