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TED Talks Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativ...

Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet. It was obviously a homebrew job, added by one of the lab's hardware hackers (no one knows...

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          Abstract: The exponential dependence of resistivity on temperature in germanium is found to be a great big lie. My careful theoretical modeling and painstaking experimentation reveal 1) that my equipment is crap, as are all the available...

A high-school principal in Arizona punished two boys for fighting by making them hold hands in the middle of campus. His methods have caused controversy.

I've always wondered what it would be like for aliens to discover the Earth's many contraptions.  From televisions to hair dryers, it would definitely be interesting to see how aliens w...

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Using only elementary geometry, determine angle x. Provide a step-by-step proof.