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Chemistry Student Makes Near-Impossible Paper Ball Shot Securing Class A 100 On Their Quiz Every year at OSU, an organic chemistry class demonstrates "donating a proton" in a unique way. The professor throws a paper ball up into the lecture hall's upper balcony and challenges a student to make a far off shot into a recycling bin. The professor also offers the entire class an A+ on their first quiz if the student can make it. And that's how Vinny became a hero. September 6, 2016 at 08:55PM

Chemistry Student Makes Near-Impossible Paper Ball Shot Securing Class A 100 On Their Quiz

Picture of the day on September 7, 2016: Parasol mushroom, Macrolepiota procera, Ukraine.

crickets , n : […] (US, slang, humorous) Used alone or in metaphorically descriptive phrases: absolute silence; no communication.

The Article of the day for September 7, 2016 is Krulak Mendenhall mission . The Krulak Mendenhall mission was an American fact-finding expedition sent by President Kennedy's administration to South Vietnam in 1963. It investigated the progress of the war by the South Vietnamese regime and their US military advisers against the Viet Cong insurgency. The mission was led by Victor Krulak (pictured), a major general in the Marine Corps, and Joseph Mendenhall, a senior Foreign Service officer experienced in Vietnamese affairs. The four-day whirlwind trip came in the wake of increasingly strained relations between the United States and South Vietnam. In their submissions Krulak presented an optimistic report on the progress of the war, but Mendenhall presented a bleak picture of military failure and public discontent. Krulak said that the Vietnamese soldiers' efforts in the field would not be affected by the public's unease with President Ngô Đình Diệm's policies. Mendenhall...

Word of the day is crickets : […] (US, slang, humorous) Used alone or in metaphorically descriptive phrases: absolute silence; no communication.

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Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down Holmes built Theranos based on secrecy in the hope that she could still pull it off. Then, it all fell apart.

Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down

The Death of Project Ara Shows Google Is All Grown Up

The Death of Project Ara Shows Google Is All Grown Up Google has reportedly suspended — and possibly killed — Ara, its project to make a modular smartphone with interchangeable components. The move is curious, given that the company recently restarted the hype for the project, but it's not particularly surprising.