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"During his 1969 concert at San Quentin prison, Johnny Cash proposed a paradigm shift in the field of developmental psychology. "
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'"What we're trying to do is present the material in a more coherent way," Beise said. "Students should be able to pick a theme and find courses in the sciences and humanities that are related."'
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"The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to."
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A cheery little essay putting the housing market crash in context, and predicting a "bubble" in alternative energy.
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Pandas!
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What people thought was a water channel may just have been a landslide.
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"Hallelujah, hallelujah, Joyfully we lark about..."
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A few interesting results from the March Meeting, including some cool optical lattice stuff.
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