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"Every two months, there's a 15-day basho. You can set your watch by it, if you happen to have one of those watches that's accurate only to the week."
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"I think it is important that students understand the basics of graphing without using a spreadsheet or some other computer program. All too often students just feed numbers to a program and it spits out a picture."
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"The first stable quantum gas of molecules with large electric dipole moments has been made by physicists in the US. Unlike other quantum gases, the molecules interact with each other over relatively large distances. This means that the system could be used to study a wide range of quantum phenomena -- and perhaps even be used to create robust quantum bits that could be used to store and process information."
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