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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 29 2008 | science, physics, news
    The Nature of Glass Remains Anything but Clear - NYTimes.com

    Fascinating... I didn't realize this was a mystery of science.

    Quoted: Peer into its molecules, and glass is indiscernible from a liquid. So how can it be hard? And how does it get that way? For scientists, the puzzle persists.

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    0 starsshiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 04 2006 | science, world, physics

    Interesting commentary... esp. the discussion of the history of mathematics.

    Quoted: Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

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