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Survey: Princeton University Tops the List as the Hottest College on Dating Profiles

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  • Survey asked singles which universities/colleges produce the most attractive alumni.
  • Rutgers University-New Brunswick emerged in 2nd place, followed by Stevens Institute of Technology in 3rd. 
  • Infographic included of the rankings.

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Ridgewood NJ, Harvard, Stanford, MIT — degrees from these prestigious universities are often seen as tickets to career success. But what if they could also boost your dating profile? DatingAdvice.com surveyed 3,000 singles to determine whether degrees on resumes from certain universities or colleges make people more attractive in the dating world.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

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“Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Ridgewood NJ, Startup wants to drill 12 miles into earth’s crust to tap the boundless energy . Quaise Energy , a startup that spun out of MIT in 2018, recently secured $40 million in funding for their deep-drilling energy project. The startup plans to drill holes as deep as 12 miles into the Earth’s crust where it reaches temperatures of over 700 degrees Fahrenheit. It plans to use the holes to convert water into supercritical steam to drive turbines and produce electricity. If successful, the technique could be used anywhere in the world to produce nearly 100 percent renewable energy at terawatt levels.

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MIT Researchers Publish Design for $100 Ventilator

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David L. Chandler | MIT News Office

One of the most pressing shortages facing hospitals during the Covid-19 emergency is a lack of ventilators. These machines can keep patients breathing when they no longer can on their own, and they can cost around $30,000 each. Now, a rapidly assembled volunteer team of engineers, physicians, computer scientists, and others, centered at MIT, is working to implement a safe, inexpensive alternative for emergency use, which could be built quickly around the world.

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