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Buzz Williams may have lost 22 games in his first season as the basketball coach at Virginia Tech, but he certainly didn’t lose his sense of humor. In a video he posted Monday, Williams takes a page from “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and reads “mean tweets” about himself. Some are mean, all right: “He’s got the fattest neck I’ve ever seen.”
» Read moreHere’s yet another reminder that women totally kick ass in any field they want. Shrinivas Kulkarni, astronomy and planetary science professor at the California Institute of Technology, was featured in an interview with NPR on Saturday. While speaking on astronomers, the professor said, “many scientists … are what I call ‘boys with toys.’ I really like playing around with telescopes.
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An emoji tells a thousand words. But some of those cute little icons tell a story much bigger than our weekend plans or what we ate for lunch. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is using a group of emojis for a fundraising campaign called #EndangeredEmoji to help endangered creatures and their homes. The campaign highlights 17 animal icons
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Ijad Madisch knows how quickly things can spread — viruses, for example. The 34-year-old has studied pathogens, including at Harvard. Now he’s preoccupied with finding out the shortest amount of time it takes for knowledge to get from Toronto to Timbuktu, from Beijing to Berlin. That’s because Madisch, whose family comes from Syria, is using his Berlin-based startup, ResearchGate, to
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Leave it up to Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. to save the day. Earlier this week, a boy named Aidan was having a bad day, so his mother, who uses the Twitter handle @trips034me, took to the social media platform to ask the “Iron Man” actor to retweet a simple “Hi” to console her son. @RobertDowneyJr It would make my
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