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Tuesday, April 09, 2013

It's All Politics

Blacks' Election-Day Waits Nearly Double Those Of Whites, But Why?

People stood in line to vote on Election Day 2012 at the Wake County Firearms Education and Training Center in Apex, N.C.

April 9, 2013 On Election Day 2012, black voters waited on average nearly twice as long to vote as did whites. The wait time for Hispanics fell in between. While race may have played a role, a researcher suggests geography did, too.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

The Two-Way

VIDEO: 'World's Slowest Fastest Camera' Captures The Movement Of Light

MIT Media Lab postdoc Andreas Velten, left, and Associate Professor Ramesh Raskar. In the foreground is a plastic bottle glowing with laser light.

December 13, 2011 A camera that captures images at the rate of one trillion exposures per second is a device with amazing potential, according to researchers at MIT.

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Monday, December 05, 2011

The Two-Way

Record Folders: 54,000 Feet Of Paper; 13 Folds; One New Standard

The St. Mark's School record folders.

December 5, 2011 Using 54,000 feet of toilet paper and the 825-foot long "Infinite Corridor" at MIT as a workspace, students from a small boarding school say they broke an unofficial record for folding paper on Sunday. They created the equivalent of 13 folds.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Blog Of The Nation

Trash: From The Garbage Can To ???

February 23, 2010 A new MIT project looks at where trash goes once it's, well, trash.

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