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Get Smart(er) With MIT OpenCourseWare
How cool would it be to study up with the best minds in the country at MIT without having to pay for the tuition? If you have a thirst for knowledge, let MIT OpenCourseWare be your tall glass of water.
Now with over 1,800 courses open for you to follow – spanning their entire curriculum – you can read through lecture notes and labs and watch the same demonstration vids that the smarty pants see at the prestigious college, but at a substantial discount.
This Just In: MIT Sues Frank Gehry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has has filed a negligence suit against famed architect Frank Gehry for serious design flaws in the Stata Center, a campus building holding labs, offices, classrooms, and meeting rooms. MIT paid Gehry $15 million to design the building, which was completed in 2004, and spent $300 million to build it. The school alleges the flaws in Gehry's design have caused leaks, drainage problems, and mold growing on its brick exterior.
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Sonia Rykiel for H&M Throw Parisian Parade
Jimmy Choo for H&M lands in stores this weekend giving you the chance to get your mits on a pair of designer heels for under £100. However, don't blow your budget all at once as the Sonia Rykiel collaboration is just around the corner. The lingerie part of the capsule line launches on 5th December, but not before H&M throw an enormous party for the French fashion brand.
Experienced MIT Alumni Goes to Job Hunting Extremes
It's a numbing employment situation when each week a different investment bank reduces their workforce by 10 percent. While some workers who have made their names and fortunes in finance are having trouble keeping their heads up in the down market, experienced banker and MIT degree holder Joshua Persky hasn't let a discouraging reality get under his skin.
An unproductive six-month job search triggered a more creative mindset that led to Persky standing on Wall Street wearing a sandwich board while handing out résumés.
No More Power Cords! Sony Announces Wireless Technology
Last week, Sony announced they have developed a "highly efficient" wireless power transfer system. Meaning that soon you can purchase a Sony TV without a power cord! The technology is based on magnetic resonance, meaning that electromagnetic energy will be transferred between a transmitter unit and the device.
Do You Learn More From Your Successes or Mistakes?
Since we all make mistakes, it's comforting to take solace in the notion that we learn from them. Now some MIT researchers have gone and ruined that for us by conducting a study that suggests that our brains learn more when we succeed, not when we do something wrong.
While studying monkeys, the scientists discovered that the monkeys' brains processed information better after the monkey did something right.
H.S. Valedictorian Paid to Promote I Love You, Beth Cooper
Nearly $2,000 is a lot of money for an 18-year-old headed to college. The marketing executives for Twentieth Century Fox used this fact to their advantage when they created what they considered a viral concept for the film I Love You, Beth Cooper.
As BuzzSugar relays, the teen comedy opens with a valedictory graduation speech that includes a profession of love for a popular girl at school.
Book Bag: The Largest Book in the World
Do you have bad eyesight and a fascination with the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan? Then you're in luck!
Friendly Planet and MIT teamed up and took more than 60,000 photographs of ancient architecture, panoramas of the Great Himalayan Range, and life-size or bigger portraits of the inhabitants of this grand Himalayan kingdom for their book Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom.
How-To: Eliza Dushku's Natural Waves
The Sundance Film Festival is in full effect, as were Eliza Dushku's tousled, natural curls, styled courtesy of Living Proof, a humidity-resistant line created by a MIT professor. While I love the classy, structured retro waves that were hot at this year's Golden Globes, I'm liking Dushku's more everyday version. And I've got the how-to on creating these shiny, natural curls at home:
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- Russell Brand just loves the granddaughters of the famous — Get Lippy
- Leona wants to follow in Beyonce's acting footsteps — Handbag
- LA's red-carpet awards season in jeopardy again — Elle UK
- Jodie Kidd hot footed it to get her mits on some Uggs — InStyle UK
- The X Factor is putting Britney off her food — Cosmopolitan UK
- Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown may be re-uniting — Holy Moly
- Surprise surprise, there's going to be a Twilight 2 — Hecklerspray
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