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An Abromowitz and Stegun for the Internet age.
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"Pre-TED, I used to be able to sit through a boring lecture or presentation -- diligently taking notes while being sufficiently nourished by whatever small sliver of new insights or information the speaker could provide. I had patience, fortitude, and a long attention span for the bad presentation. TED has extinguished this valuable skill."
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"For men, academic probation doubles the likelihood that they will drop out of school -- from a 3 percent probability to a 6 percent probability, Lindo said.
Male students who had done above average work in high school but whose work triggered academic probation after their first year of college saw their probability of graduation drop by 14.5 percentage points, Lindo and colleagues found.
The study found no statistically significant effects on women or on male college students who had experienced lower-than-average grades in high school. "
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"Theodore Maiman made the first laser operate on 16 May 1960 at the Hughes Research Laboratory in California, by shining a high-power flash lamp on a ruby rod with silver-coated surfaces. He promptly submitted a short report of the work to the journal Physical Review Letters, but the editors turned it down."
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Chinese scientists have "teleported" a photon state through 16km of open air in the suburbs of Beijing. That's equivalent to 50 km of open air in a city with breathable air, or 20 km in Los Angeles.
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