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Scientists Discover Way to Predict Sunspots

Tim Karan — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:45:05 CDT

Maybe we'll eventually be able to cross off solar flares as a possible way the world ends. Scientists at Stanford say they've developed a system to predict dangerous sunspots two days before they erupt, reports the San Francisco Chronicle . Using satellite data, they can detect the rumblings of solar storms...

Recruiters: Columbia, MIT Are So 'Second-Tier'

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:19:39 CST

If you’re determined to get a great job, you might want to quit your course of study at Cornell or Dartmouth and transfer to one of the "top 5" schools: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Wharton. A new study shows that recruiters for the best law firms, investment banks, and...

Colleges That Pay Off

John Johnson — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:00:00 CDT

Which colleges pay off? PayScale crunched the numbers to compute the best returns on investment—by comparing the cost of a degree against what its students earn upon graduation—and Huffington Post rounds up the best of the bunch: Massachusetts Institute of Technology: annual ROI: 12.6%; 30-year ROI: $1....

100 Happiest Colleges

John Johnson — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:22:56 CDT

The Daily Beast follows up its list of the nation's most stressed-out colleges with a polar-opposite one on the happiest schools. Factors include housing, weather, nightlife, and tuition. Read the full list of 100 here . The consortium of Claremont colleges in California dominate the top 10: Claremont (Calif.) McKenna...

Notre Dame Finally Fires Charlie Weis

M. Morris — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:33:37 CST

After months of speculation, Notre Dame pulled the trigger on Charlie Weis today, firing its head football coach with 6 years and at least $10 million left on his contract. Saturday's loss to Stanford, which left the Fighting Irish with a 6-6 record in Weis' fifth year at the helm,...

Google Exec Reinvents Geek Chic

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:17:11 CDT

Marissa Mayer is Google’s 20th—or maybe 16th—employee, responsible for such household names as Gmail and Google Maps. But the 34-year-old exec is also addicted to cheese and Oscar de la Renta, and carries an iPhone “to have a non-Google product to better simulate the user,” she says. Mayer,...

Google Mentor Dead in Freak Swimming Accident

Drew Nelles — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:43:16 CDT

A Stanford computer science professor who mentored Google's founders has drowned in his swimming pool, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Rajeev Motwani, 47, who could not swim, drowned at his Atherton, Calif., home, leaving a wife, two daughters, and many admirers in Silicon Valley. “It's a rare combination to...

Students Hurt By Colleges' Digital Verdicts

Ambreen Ali — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:30:02 CST

College admissions offices are jazzing up acceptance packages—adding confetti, T-shirts, internet videos—to lure students, and are also trying to keep up with the times in their rejections, US News and World Report writes. But some efforts have backfired, with students hurt by brutally short, electronic turndowns—including text...

Website Lets You Into Harvard—Free

Sarah Quinn — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:35:58 CST

No notes, no homework, and you can wear your PJs the entire time you "sit in" on Harvard classes—online. Academic Earth's online classes are "unexpectedly irresistible," Farhad Manjoo writes for Slate. "It's like Hulu, but for nerds." The company's collection of videotaped lectures from schools like Harvard, Yale, and...