Frank Field raised an interesting piece of MIT trivia today that i was not aware of — MIT does not confer honorary degrees. An interesting quotation from the MIT News Office: When Charles M. Vest, then provost of the University of Michigan, was offered the job of president of MIT in 1990, he met with [...]
Just wait until you see inside. Link via hackaday.com.
I stumbled across this on Wikipedia today and had to blog about it (my inner geek loves it):
CBC reports that only ~41% of Albertans voted in their provincial election yesterday. While Manitoba’s arguably not any better at 56.75% in our last election, it’s a little sad that such a low turnout gives a mandate to those who govern the economically-powerful, environmentally-careless, and growing-too-quickly Alberta. Perhaps the problem is the Elections Alberta slogan: [...]
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