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About a quarter of the U.S. News formula is an opinion poll of university administrators (presidents, provosts and deans) and high school co...

There are some big differences between living in a plane, versus living in Euclidean 3D and merely being able to perceive only a plane slice...

In 2002, I got my first cell phone. June was stuffy in Manhattan, and my summer internship copy-editing the  New York Sun , the now-defun...

Take the ferry or sail to Spectacle Island, visit the museum on the island's history, hike up to the top of the island (the highest poin...

Get out and enjoy all that Boston has to offer! Spend the summers here -- Boston is beautiful in the summer. Get a guidebook and peruse it. ...

Mathematically speaking, frequentist and Bayesian methods differ in what they care about, and the kind of errors they're willing to acce...

The democratization of electronics -- made possible by transistors and integrated circuits, among other things -- surely contributed to a de...

Forget the jargon -- the important thing is to reach a meeting of the minds with the reporter about the conditions imposed on the interview ...

Sure, how about: Crew knife Ship's compass Hand bearing compass Telescope/binoculars Marlinspike Sextant (still required to earn ...