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My Evening With Stephen Hawking

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Cosmology, Kip Thorne, Stephen Hawking, Talk Nerdy to Me, Pasadena, Motor Neuron Disease, Science, Cara Santa Maria, Black Holes, Caltech, Als, Theoretical Physics, Science News

Stephen rarely does public talks anymore. When he does, he draws an impressive crowd. And most of the people sitting in those seats are unaware of the effort that goes into composing the script he will follow over the course of the evening.

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These Are The Best & Worst Colleges For Your Money

Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: College ROI, Judson University, Return on Investment, Harvey Mudd College, Medaille College, Notre Dame, Roi Rankings, College Rankings, Meredith College, Stanford, Savannah College of Art and Design, Caltech, Dartmouth, Slidepollajax, Seton Hill University, Mit, College News

College costs a lot, and no one wants to waste four or five years going deep in debt and not get anything for their money. Payscale has extensive d...

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The 15 Geekiest Colleges

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Geeks, Reed College, Rice University, UC San Diego, Johns Hopkins University, Geeky Colleges, Top 15 Colleges, Georgia Tech, Caltech, Mit, Inside College, College News

Not every college is tailored toward the student who grew up wearing sweater vests and obsessing over their new TI-83 calculator. However, there a...

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Science Serving Society

Jean-Lou Chameau | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Space Exploration, Mars Rover Curiousity, New Research, Robotic Surgery, Mars, Mars Rover, Caltech, Cape Canaveral, Science News

The excitement engendered by exploration, innovation and science is tremendous -- and rarely quite as evident as when a rocket launches, bound for another planet.

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Jazz, Math, Tech & Lyle Mays

Joseph Vella | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Caltech, Math, Lyle Mays, Pat Metheny Group, Technology, Jazz, Caltechtedx, Richard Feynman, Michael Roukes, Feynman's Vision: The Next 50 Years, Video, Arts News

One of the most intriguing events in jazz this year that went largely unnoticed was something that I accidentally stumbled upon.

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Scientists Shatter Internet Speed Record

The Huffington Post | John Stephens | Posted 12.16.2011

Read More: Internet Speed Record, Internet Speed, Verizon, Video, Fastest Internet, Broadband, SuperComputing 2011, Cern, Large Hadron Collider, European Center for Nuclear Research, 186 Gbps, Caltech, Technology News

Scientists and researchers have set a new Internet speed record by managing to transfer data at a sustained rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps), a ...

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CalTech Report Reveals Optimism For AIDS Protection

AP | By MALCOLM RITTER | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HIV Vaccine, Aids Research, AIDS Vaccine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, California Institute of Technology, Center for AIDS Research in New York, David Baltimore, Caltech, HIV Research, HIV Mouse Study, Los Angeles News

NEW YORK -- As scientists struggle to find a vaccine to prevent infection with the AIDS virus, a study in mice suggests hope for a new approach &ndash...

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Who Will Win the 2011 Solar Decathlon?

Susanna Murley | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: University of Calgary, University of Maryland, Planet Forward, George Washington University, Middlebury College, Caltech, Department of Energy, Sci-Arc, Tongji University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 Solar Decathlon, Slidepollajax, #SD2011, Green News

Can a liberal education prepare you to compete in the Solar Decathlon? In the spirit of Emerson, "Self Reliance," from Middlebury, will be the only submission from a liberal arts school to the Department of Energy's architectural competition.

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Caltech vs. Vince Lombardi

Ben Rosen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Caltech, Basketball, Lombardi, New York Knicks, Knicks, Vince Lombardi, Caltech Losing Streak, u.s. News College Rankings, Sports News

For the first time in the last 26 years, Caltech won a conference basketball game. A record 310-game losing streak -- longest ever in the United States by any sports team -- was broken.

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College Team Wins First Conference Game Since 1985

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Caltech Basketball Win, Caltech Basketball Conference, Caltech Basketball, Caltech, Los Angeles News

PASADENA, Calif. — Caltech ended its 310-game conference losing streak in men's basketball Tuesday night, beating Occidental College 46-45 in it...

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Green Energy Innovation: Building A National Commitment

James M. Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Energy Innovation Council, General Electric, High-Risk High-Reward Research, Kleiner Perkins, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Bank of America, George F. Will, Clean Energy, Scialog, National Science Foundation, James Fallows, Arpa-E, John Holdren, Ursula Burns, Steven Chu, Electric Cars, Department of Energy, Nathan Lewis, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Lockheed Martin, Energy Secretary, Biosphere-2, American Association for the Advancement of Science, John Doerr, Bill Gates, U.S. Treasury Department, Caltech, Jeff Immelt, Nobel Prize, Xerox, The Atlantic, Green Products, Wind Turbines, China, Green News

Clean energy may well be the next economic revolution, and the United States can be at the forefront, if we take full advantage of our nation's streng...

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America Needs To Re-Energize Our Scientific Culture

James M. Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Academy of Sciences, Caltech, National Science Foundation, Thomas Friedman, Arpa-E, Biosphere 2, Research Corporation for Science Advancement, Steven Chu, Scialog, Arun Majumdar, Green News

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently endorsed a "Manhattan Project" approach to renewable energy research. Specifically, he urged the U.S...

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Innovation Alchemy: Turning Ideas into Gold

Paul S. Otellini | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Innovation, Caltech, Intel, Technology News

With this economic near-death experience still so fresh, now may not seem the time for ambitious and aggressive investments in science and technology. But, in reality, this is the best possible time.

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Empowering the Planet - An Earth Day Overview

James M. Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Solar, Fossil Fuels, Earth Day, Nuclear Power, Wind, Carbon Free, Wind Energy, Natural Gas, Climate Change, Caltech, Coal, Solar Power, Green News

Leaving climate change aside, is reliance on fossil and nuclear fuels in an era of skyrocketing demand a workable, long-term, energy policy for the United States and the world?

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Did Caltech Predict An Earthquake?

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Earthquake, Mexicali Earthquake, Earthquakes, Caltech, Los Angeles News

Seismologists in California were busy this week fighting rumors apparently floating on Twitter that a major earthquake was likely in the next few days...

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The Most GRUELING Colleges (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Caltech, Harvey Mudd, Mit, U.S. Naval Academy, Swarthmore, Slidepollajax, Grueling Colleges, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Morehouse, Most Grueling Colleges, Most Grueling College, The Most Grueling Colleges, Most Grueling University, Swarthmore Most Grueling, Most Grueling Colleges Johns Hopkins, Most Gruelling School, College News

What makes a college particularly difficult? Myriad required courses? Impossibly high standards? Necessary IV of caffeine? Decide for yourself -- and ...

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Big Science in a Small City

Sharon Glassman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Humor, Physics, Women and Science, Dr. Susan Love, Richard Feynman, Kirsten Sanford, Caltech, Lisa Randall, Harvard, Michelle Thaller, James Joyce, Violin, Fiddle, Bluegrass, Quirks, Science, Cwa, Albert Einstein, Quarks, Cu, Style News

Lingo without linguistics can be dangerous, I knew. One of the great things about life out West is that people respect newbies. And they don't begrudge mistakes.

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Caltech Studying Keys To Urban Hydroponic Farming, Roof Farms

AP | JACOB ADELMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Local Food, Urban Farming, Roof Farming, Food, Hydroponic Farming, Caltech, Hydroponics, Green News

POMONA, Calif. — Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams...

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Study: Paying Inflated Prices Trigger Pleasure Points

i09 | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: MRI Brain Scans, Inflated Prices, Stanford, Inflation, CalTech, Business News

Inflated prices trigger the pleasure centers in your brain more than fair ones. Not only is the idea of buying something expensive more exciting than ...

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