Remembering Joe Paterno

The great Joe Paterno, the man who died of a broken heart. A man who proved that no scandal was big enough to overshadow his work of 46 years. A well deserved honor into history.

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I’m reading: (required Literature)

And celebrating its 400th Anniversary, I’m also re-reading:

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Incredible Flamenco costumes for female performers

This is really awesome!

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U.S. is the Biggest Wine Drinking Country in the World

Vino anyone? It seems we have been drinking up — and often — as the U.S. has become the world’s biggest consumer of wine.

Statistics released at by Vinexpo and International Wine and Spirit Research (ISWR) showed the United States consumed the equivalent of 3.7 billion bottles of wine in 2011. Americans surpassed the traditional wine-guzzling nations: France, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Germany. China, which is one of the fastest growing markets, knocked England out of fifth place.

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Four-atom-wide wire may herald tiny computers

This image from a computational simulation run of the newly created wires shows electron density as electrons flow from left to right. The wires are 20 times smaller than the smallest wires now available and measure just four atoms wide by one phosphorus atom tall.

A wire that is just four atoms wide and one atom tall, yet works just as well as the ordinary copper wires running behind your wall, was recently created by an international team of scientists.

The breakthrough brings closer to reality a future where computers smaller than a pinhead are faster and more powerful than some of today’s supercomputers, according to the researchers.

Such so-called quantum computers will require wires to get information in and out of the quantum bits, or qubits, that perform calculations, explained Gerhard Klimeck, an electrical and chemical engineer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

“These wires are our approach to how we might drive quantum computing bits”

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