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The Rutgers Ankle Robotic Interface tackles the formidable task of rehabilitating a notoriously delicate anatomical extremity.
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Autumn Leaves
New Jersey is one of the Northeast’s great wonderlands of autumn color. We owe our brilliant fall leaves to geography.
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Golden Golf
Don’t even think of putting away your clubs this month. New Jersey courses beckon in their autumn finery. Here’s a loop of nine prime layouts around the state you won’t want to miss.
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Office Watercooler
The watercooler is the oasis of the corporate jungle, where office denizens discuss such important topics as American Idol, the company softball team, or the latest New Jersey corruption bust.
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Underwater Research Vehicle
Underwater research capabilities are significantly enhanced by this month's featured How Things Work item—a torpedo-shaped submersion device know as REMUS 100.
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Kingda Ka Roller Coaster
How did we describe life’s ups and downs before roller coasters?
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Cotton Candy Machines
The English call it fairy floss, picking up the name it was given by the two Nashvillians who invented the first electric machine for making it.
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Central Air Conditioning
Thanks to the second law of thermodynamics, air conditioners make hot, stuffy rooms comfortable, but technically they don’t cool the air.
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Video Slot Machines
Mathematicians love slot machines—not to sink tokens into but rather their analytical teeth.
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Pete Carril's Princeton Offense
At this month’s annual orgy of college hoops, the NCAA Championships, you’ll see a lot of Pete Carril—or, rather, of the offensive system he devised as basketball coach at Princeton from 1967 to 1996.
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Let It Snow
It’s always been necessary, if never easy, to make snow for skiing in New Jersey, where winters are famously fickle.
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Open Road E-ZPass
Seventeen feet above the roadway of the Garden State Parkway, on the southbound side of the Raritan Toll Plaza, instruments on a lattice read your E-ZPass tag and photograph your license plate as you zip past.
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NJ's Willow School Goes Green
With its cutting-edge buildings, the Willow School in Gladstone takes green to a new level—platinum—and a new concept: regeneration.
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This is the Smallest Thing in the Universe
Ed Witten, Princeton’s world-renowned physicist, is “stringing” us all along in the theoretical world as he picks up where Einstein left off.
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