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Just eight of Caltech's 15 players even played on their high school hoops team. And if they gain any attention on the court now, it's just for being part of a spectacular losing tradition; the team and their coach are featured in a strangely inspiring documentary, Quantum Hoops, which will be out on dvd this spring...
There are signs of improvement, if not a quantum leap. Four years ago, the team lost by an average of 60 points, dropping games with scores like 108-16 and 127-32. This season Caltech lost by 29 points per game, took two league opponents into overtime and, for the second consecutive year, won a nonleague game (the team bounced Gallaudet in December). "We've had two straight winning seasons," brags Haussler, before correcting himself. "O.K., two seasons with a win." He laughs. "The paradigm is just different around here...
...particular academic specialty or concentration.” This seems to bode well for the incipient conversational Dark Ages. But wait! This broad education “does not define intellectual breadth as the mastery of a set of Great Books, or the digestion of a specific quantum of information, or the surveying of current knowledge in certain fields.” Instead, the Core is about “approaches to knowledge.” It teaches students “what kinds of knowledge and what forms of inquiry exist in these areas, how different means of analysis...
Capasso has expanded upon the Quantum Cascade Laser that debuted in 1994 by combining an array of multiple lasers emitting light of varying wavelengths in a tiny, more portable chip...
...Although quantum cascade lasers are already used to study carbon dioxide concentrations, the new chip with the allows researchers to monitor many different gases at the same time, said research associate Mikhail A. Belkin...