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See Cambridge, Mass., In Style...On A Segway
FoxCTTour a city in style with DayTrippers. Segway of Boston recently teamed up with the famous Museum of Science to offer scenic tours of Cambridge, Massachusetts. See the Charles River, the beautiful Boston skyline and the campus of MIT while aboard a high-...Tags: Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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COLUMN-Some cracks in the technocrat cult-Chrystia Freeland
Reuters(Chrystia Freeland is a Reuters columnist. Any opinions expressed are her own.) By Chrystia Freeland NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - We are living in the age of the technocrats. In business, Big Data, and the Big Brains who can parse it, rule. In...Tags: Sociology, Arts and Culture, Periodicals, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Authors
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Column: Some cracks in the technocrat cult
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - We are living in the age of the technocrats. In business, Big Data, and the Big Brains who can parse it, rule. In government, the technocrats are on top, too. From Washington to Frankfurt to Rome, technocrats have stepped in where...Tags: Sociology, Arts and Culture, Periodicals, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Authors
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YOUR MONEY-Wall St. on the silver screen: Pros pick top movies
Reuters(The author is a Reuters contributor. The opinions expressed are his/her own.) By Chris Taylor NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - In the annals of Hollywood, Wall Street has not been treated very kindly. From "Wall Street" to "Boiler Room", "Trading Places"...Tags: Long Island, Economy, Business and Finance, CNBC (tv network), Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlie Sheen
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Wall St. on the silver screen: Pros pick top movies
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - In the annals of Hollywood, Wall Street has not been treated very kindly. From "Wall Street" to "Boiler Room", "Trading Places" to "American Psycho", the halls of finance are usually portrayed as places of shiny excesses and dark...Tags: Long Island, Economy, Business and Finance, CNBC (tv network), Citigroup Incorporated, Leonardo DiCaprio
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Thrifty Merrimack developing new cancer drugs at lower cost
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Little known biotechnology company Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc has quietly built a large pipeline of experimental cancer treatments that it aims to deliver at a fraction of the cost spent by larger rivals. That could translate into...Tags: Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Gastric cancer, Trials, Drugs and Medicines
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Hopkins closes science writing program, citing low selectivity
Graduates of the Johns Hopkins University's master's program in science writing have explained the prospects of life on Mars, the promise of neuroscience research and the ethics of animal testing on the pages of Scientific American, Nature and Popular...Tags: Radio, Agricultural Research and Technology, NPR, Science, Entertainment
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his fangirls
OK, so Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stands accused of blowing up three people, injuring 282 more and shooting to death an MIT campus police officer. He's also got fans, or more accurately, he's got fangirls, thousands of them. These besotted double-X chromosome-...Tags: Social Media, Jihad, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Sports
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NRA draws wrong conclusions from Boston
In the days and weeks after the Boston Marathon bombings, the National Rifle Association has repeatedly stated that many Bostonians who did not possess guns probably wished that they had them in their homes during the tense "shelter in place" manhunt....
Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Crime, Law and Justice, Sports, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Gun Control
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Robot rave swarming MIT
Boston HeraldA "high tech rave"-like performance piece happening tonight at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is actually designed to help campus roboticists create algorithms based on human behavior that can better control large swarms of robots,...Tags: Social Sciences, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Culture, Entertainment Events
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Rowing can part the waters for students
As the sun rises daily on the Fox River in St. Charles, groups of young people slice through the water on boats that can not only achieve a 6-minute mile but change the course of their lives, said David Tyler Miller, president and executive director of...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Sports, Rowing
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Human calculator: Fabens High math whiz earns titles, MIT scholarship
El Paso Times, TexasSolving complex math problems is simple for Fabens High School senior Miguel Medrano, who sees the mathematical equations as challenges to investigate and solve. Medrano's ability to solve geometric, algebraic, precalculus and calculus problems in a...Tags: Awards and Prizes, University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University, Music, Schools
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