Isaac Newton News
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Since its founding in 1350, Trinity Hall, one of the University of Cambridge’s 31 colleges, has endured the plague and the English Reformation. Now it is taking on the banking business.
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In 1664, when comets appeared in the English sky, many thought the end was near. As apocalyptic confirmation, then came the bubonic plague.
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When the Francis Crick Institute opens next to London’s St. Pancras station in 2015, Nobelist Paul Nurse expects its labs won’t only grow bacteria, mold or stem cells. They will also grow science talent.
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On June 27, 1848, Daniel Drew found himself in court over insider trading. Not because it was illegal; there was no law against it at the time. Rather, his partners had sued him because he hadn't divided the profits fairly.
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Cambridge University, the 800-year- old alma mater of Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking, sold its first bonds, tapping investor demand that let Portugal Telecom SGPS SA issue its first benchmark notes since 2011.
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The deranged hunchback psychiatrist walks over to her father’s portrait and cackles. Then she turns to her patients and reveals the truth of their incarceration.
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Sir Isaac Newton's law of gravity states that the pull of an object depends on its mass. This means that when the Earth's mass shifts, so does its field of gravity.
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An object in motion remains in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted on by an external force. When Sir Isaac Newton described the behavior of objects in the universe, codified as the first of his three laws of motion , he didn’t have a $15 trillion economy in mind.
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Vijay Iyer could have spent his life delving into the mysteries of quantum mechanics after graduating from Yale University with a combined major in math and physics.
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Albert Einstein’s postcard to his sick mother joyfully reporting proof of the bending of light and a letter suggesting a solution to the Jewish-Arab conflict have been put online.
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