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Knill’s Steeple in Carbis Bay, England

August 13, 2020

In 1782, Customs & Excise Officer and soon-to-be-mayor of St. Ives John Knill built a vainglorious mausoleum so the local townsfolk would remember him. Upon his death in London in 1811, his will instructed that every five years, on July 25, 10 young girls, two widows, a local minister, the mayor of St. Ives, a violinist, and a tax man should engage in dancing, singing, and music around his 50-foot-tall, sharp-sided, triangular granite pyramid. And so an unusual local ritual……

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Explaining Our Obsession With the Unexplained

August 13, 2020

This story is excerpted and adapted from Colin Dickey’s new book, The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession With the Unexplained. June 1996, and the United States was on edge. A year after Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, the country watched anxiously as a standoff between the FBI and a militia group unfolded in Jordan, Montana. The Montana Freemen had declared themselves outside the reach of U.S. law, had stopped paying……

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Six Toronto VCs discuss COVID-19 and the...

August 13, 2020

As North America’s fourth-largest city, Toronto is one of the world’s top startup ecosystems. After spawning companies like Eventbrite and Crowdmark, Ontario’s capital has attracted international talent that complements its homegrown population of entrepreneurs and technical talent. Six investors we surveyed who work and live in the area said they believe Toronto will continue to thrive after the COVID-19 storm passes. Some of them focus exclusively on the region, while others invest elsewhere as well. As they explained, the……

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Fort A Site in Cape Girardeau, Missouri

August 13, 2020

During the Civil War, Cape Girardeau was occupied by Union troops under the command of General Ulysses S. Grant. This site was once the home of Fort A, one of the Union’s facilities used as a supply base and defensive structure against the Confederacy. The fort was guarded by a few massive siege cannons, one of which is still on display. Today, the Fort A site is a must-see when visiting downtown Cape Girardeau. The town was also utilized……

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Cube closes $5M Seed round to scale...

August 13, 2020

This morning Cube announced that it has closed a Seed round worth just over $5 million. The software startup, focused on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) work, raised $3.8 million of the total recently, with remaining $1.25 million having come in an earlier Pre-Seed round. Christina Ross, Cube’s CEO and founder, told TechCrunch that she started raising the most recent tranche of capital in March, winding up with a few term sheets within a few weeks. Eventually the startup……

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Orinoro Gorge in Leppävirta, Finland

August 13, 2020

A wonder of Savo Region, the Orinoro Gorge was carved out by glaciers during the last Ice Age. Paths constructed of wooden planks wind their way through nearly 700 feet (200 meters) of sliced rock faces, before looping around and leading upward to offer a bird’s eye view from the 65-foot (20-meter) high ridges. Sounds carry through the gorge like echoes in a cave. Chirping birds and skittering creatures are amplified off the ricochetting walls. Rock ledges and wooden benches……

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Thow Kwang Pottery Jungle in Singapore, Singapore

August 13, 2020

The dragon kiln, or longyao, is a traditional Chinese wood-fired kiln that dates back several thousand years. The long, cylindrical kiln is said to resemble the shape of a dragon, and it hisses, bellows, and spits smoke as it works. Dragon kilns rose in popularity in Singapore in the early 19th century, and from the 1940s to the 1970s, nearly 20 opened up across Jurong. Over time, electric kilns replaced the more labor-intensive dragons, and all but two such kilns shuttered…….

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How MIT built its own Covid-19 testing...

August 13, 2020

In mid-March, in response to the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic, MIT Medical quickly set up testing tents where essential workers and others who remained on campus could be safely screened for the novel coronavirus. In the tents, nurses and physicians administered nasal swabs while dressed in full personal protective equipment, or PPE. It soon became clear that to safely test on a daily basis, medical workers needed to regularly replenish their PPE — a resource in short, desperate supply. There……

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Get Lost in a Corn Maze That...

August 12, 2020

When Angie Treinen first learned about tardigrades a few years ago, at a family-friendly science event at the University of Wisconsin, she couldn’t believe it. She loved their squashed little faces and their wonderfully rotund bodies, which look like a puffy stack of partly melted marshmallows. “I just stood there the whole time like, ‘Are you kidding me?’” Treinen says. Treinen studied zoology and worked as a veterinarian, but had never encountered teeny tiny tardigrades, which are variously known……

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3 Questions: Eric Klopfer on the meaning...

August 12, 2020

As The Washington Post has reported, “at the heart of the dismal U.S. coronavirus response” is a “fraught relationship with masks.” In this series of commentaries — inspired by ideas from associate professor of literature Sandy Alexandre — MIT faculty explore the myriad historic, creative, and cultural meanings of masks. We hope these insights offer our fellow Americans more ways to appreciate and practice protective masking — a primary means for containing the Covid-19 pandemic. Professor Eric Klopfer is……

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Lyft shares get small bump after reporting...

August 12, 2020

Today after the bell, Lyft reported its second-quarter financial performance. The American ride-hailing company’s results helped illustrate just how much the economy has changed in the wake of COVID-19 and its resulting disruptions to life, travel and work. Uber’s own results, which were shared last week, provided hints of what was coming for Lyft. The upshot: a sharply reduced ride-hailing business. In the second quarter, Lyft reported revenue of $339.3 million and earnings per share of negative $1.41. Analysts had……

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Meet Lauryn Kortman: Juggling fusion magnets and...

August 12, 2020

When Lauryn Kortman enrolled in Founder’s Journey, MIT’s entrepreneur-based first-year student seminar, she didn’t expect it would lead to a role in fusion research. As part of the program’s arranged visit to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), Kortman learned about SPARC, a new fusion experiment that expects to demonstrate a faster and less-expensive path to carbon-free energy. The project embodied her own entrepreneurial spirit and sparked in her a desire to be part of the team. “I……

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Meet Lauryn Kortman: Juggling fusion magnets and...

August 12, 2020

When Lauryn Kortman enrolled in Founder’s Journey, MIT’s entrepreneur-based first-year student seminar, she didn’t expect it would lead to a role in fusion research. As part of the program’s arranged visit to the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), Kortman learned about SPARC, a new fusion experiment that expects to demonstrate a faster and less-expensive path to carbon-free energy. The project embodied her own entrepreneurial spirit and sparked in her a desire to be part of the team. “I……

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Crowdsourced grocery delivery service thrives despite pandemic...

August 12, 2020

Early this year, Philip Kuai MNG ’07 and his team were faced with a challenging decision about whether to continue on their pathway to publicly offer their company, Dada Group, in the midst of a global pandemic. While there was much uncertainty in the market at the time, the team’s perseverance and dedication paid off in June when Kuai rang the Nasdaq opening bell remotely from Shanghai, China, signaling Dada’s listing in New York. His company’s vision is to……

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Assessing the value of battery energy storage...

August 12, 2020

In the transition to a decarbonized electric power system, variable renewable energy (VRE) resources such as wind and solar photovoltaics play a vital role due to their availability, scalability, and affordability. However, the degree to which VRE resources can be successfully deployed to decarbonize the electric power system hinges on the future availability and cost of energy storage technologies. In a paper recently published in Applied Energy, researchers from MIT and Princeton University examine battery storage to determine the……

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