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    Coach Seiders & TE Coach TY Howel will share OC job

    I do not know how good a coach Ty Howle is or how good a play-caller he will be, but he has a first-rate sense of humor. He and john Urschel were good friends and roommates while at PSU. When he was asked during an interview how smart Urschel was, he replied, "He can't be that smart; he...
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    Help the Students with U of M Signs for Fox Pre Game

    Sumeone here posted this suggestion for ESPN Game Day a week or two ago: JIM HARBAUGH STOLE MY OTHER SIGN. Credit to whoever originally posted it.
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    Bigfoot spotted by train travelers in Colorado

    While recruiting him.
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    Football GAMEDAY THREAD: Penn State defeats Illinois, 30-13

    Is the game on internet radio? I am in Europe.
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    What your favorite painting or artwork: I have affinity for

    Not necessarily my favorite, but I saw this at a National Gallery show on the Pre-Raphaelites a few years ago and it struck me how different it was from the usual portrayal of the Annunciation: no chubby cherubs surrounding a queen-like Mary in a flowing gown with heavenly rays of light, etc...
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    Oregon to the Big Ten?

    Because they have jets armed with bombs?
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    can anyone explain ambient temperature "ambient temperature / pressure superconductor"

    Ambient temperture means essentially room temperature or close to it. That is very important for practical applications. Ambient pressure means normal atmospheric pressure. This is a subtle point because some materials are superconductors only at pressures much higher than 1 atmosphere. I...
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    OT: New formulation for concrete.

    HA! I know Jim Tour, the Rice professor in the video. A number of years ago he published a paper showing that you can use almost any carbon source to grow high quality graphene on a copper foil (the standard technique at the time, and still widely used). Among the carbon sources he used were...
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    OT: New formulation for concrete.

    I have moved away from catbon nanotubes so I do not follow the literature closely. A few years ago my postdoc came running excitedly nto my office with a huge smile on his face while waving a printout of a manuscript he was asked to review. It was a paper on copper nanotubes by a Chinese...
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    OT: New formulation for concrete.

    I have worked in low-dimensional physics (including carbon nanotubes and graphene) for over 20 years. Many uses have been proposed for both forms of crystalline carbon, most of them unrealistic, but some do pay off. I know little about concrete, but I assume that it must be strong in all...
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    When does the team leave for CA?

    Release Valves for everyone!
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    PSU #7 in Coaches poll and #8 in AP poll

    https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fbs/associated-press
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    Greeting, Lions of Mount Nittany

    Regina mortua est; vivat Rex!
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    RIP Olivia Newton John.

    Her grandfather was Physics Nobel Laureate Max Born.
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    B1G rumored to be looking at 6 more schools

    I believe the issue was that the med school was not located at the Lincoln campus, so that its funding was not included in the UN Lincoln total, thus dropping its total below the minimum threshold funding amount required for AAU membership. I believe that the funding threshold for AAU...
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    Link: Is this a great movie ending or what?

    Dr. Strangelove That, my friends, is an ending.
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    Who's playing wordle?

    I figured Sweardle would be more to this board's taste: Sweardle, the four letter swear word game
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    The Ls continue for Michigan

    Assuming "knish" is not a euphemism....
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