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2023 ACC Championship (Raleigh, NC)

Researchers create first functional semiconductor made from graphene

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created the world's first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known. Semiconductors, which are materials that conduct electricity under specific conditions, are foundational components of electronic devices. The team's breakthrough throws open the door to a new way of doing electronics. Their discovery comes at a time when silicon, the material from which nearly all modern electronics are made, is reaching its limit in the face of increasingly faster computing and smaller electronic devices. Walter de Heer, Regents' Professor of physics at Georgia Tech, led a team of researchers based in Atlanta, Georgia, and Tianjin, China, to produce a graphene semiconductor that is compatible with conventional microelectronics processing methods—a necessity for any viable alternative to silicon.

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There is a group of student fans at the University of Georgia called the ‘Spike Squad.’ They attend every UGA home game with fully painted torsos and faces no matter the weather. (Not that it ever really gets particularly cold in Athens during football season) and today they donned the message “praying for UVA” across their backs during the game against Georgia Tech. ♥️

Book Of The Day - Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative

Book Of The Day – Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative

Today’s Book Of The Day is Stories and the Brain: The Neuroscience of Narrative by Professor Paul B. Armstrong, published in 2020 by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book answers a key question: How the human brain is designed to enable us to create stories, follow them, and be involved with them? Narrative and storytelling are unique features of human social interactions, and they have a…

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Watching the Tennessee v Georgia Tech baseball game and Georgia Tech has had the lead for 8 innings, but here at the top of the 9th, GA Tech is, to quote Eddie Izzard, "collapsing like a flan in the cupboard."

George P. Burdell, Legend of the Man Who Never Existed!

I don't think you're ready for the story of George P Burdell and the legend of the man who never existed. This is by far the most elaborate, labor intensive, time consuming, and difficult prank you'll likely encounter. George P. Burdell, Legend of the M

George P. Burdell, Legend of the Man Who Never Existed! I don’t think you’re ready for the story of George P Burdell and the legend of the man who never existed. This is by far the most elaborate, labor intensive, time consuming, and difficult prank you’ll likely encounter. The amount of work it required from prankster William Edgar “Ed” Smith to create a person who never existed is simply…

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a light-based means of printing nano-sized metal structures that is significantly faster and cheaper than any technology currently available. It is a scalable solution that could transform a scientific field long reliant on technologies that are prohibitively expensive and slow. The breakthrough has the potential to bring new technologies out of labs and into the world. Technological advances in many fields rely on the ability to print metallic structures that are nano-sized -- a scale hundreds of times smaller than the width of a human hair. Sourabh Saha, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, and Jungho Choi, a Ph.D. student in Saha's lab, developed a technique for printing metal nanostructures that is 480 times faster and 35 times cheaper than the current conventional method.

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RAMBLING WRECK

Georgia Tech: 2023 Gasparilla Bowl Champions

TAMPA, Fla. — For the first time in seven years, Georgia Tech has won a bowl game.

The Yellow Jackets finished off a very productive season in head coach Brent Key's first full season with the team by capping off the year with a 30-17 win over the University of Central Florida in the Gasparilla Bowl.

After going down 14-0 early, the Jackets responded with 17 second-quarter points to tie the game up at 17-all heading to the break.

In the second half, their weakest unit all season stepped up in a big way. Tech's defense shut out UCF's offense in the second half in dominant form.

After the offense was led by quarterback Haynes King for most of the season, it was Georgia Tech's ground game that shined brightly in Tampa, Florida, on Friday night.

The Jackets rushed for over 270 yards, led by sophomore running back Jamal Haynes, who tallied 128 yards on 18 carries. King even provided a spark of his own with his legs, rushing for 89 yards on 12 carries -- including a 5-yard score in the second quarter.

The big play of the game came for the Jackets just before halftime, when King connected with wide receiver Malik Rutherford on a 41-yard touchdown pass to tie the game up with just 56 seconds before halftime.

The Yellow Jackets had a bounce-back year in head coach Brent Key's first full year as head coach. They were 7-6 overall and 5-3 in the ACC, with ranked wins over Miami (FL) on the road and North Carolina at home on The Flats.

It was Georgia Tech's first winning season since 2018, Paul Johnson's last season as head coach.

Key got some revenge over the team he used to coach for 10 years, from 2005-2015. In 2022, Tech lost to UCF in Orlando 27-10 under then-head coach Geoff Collins.

Key also defeated his wife's alma mater, which he joked about prior to the bowl game matchup.

Christmas TV Schedule, Countdown and Quick Thought – Friday, December 22, 2023

3 Days Until Christmas! Song: “Welcome to Our World,” by Chris RiceChristmas Album: “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” by the Vince Guaraldi TrioChristmas DVD: “A Christmas Story”Netflix Movie: “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey”Amazon Prime Movie: “The Man Who Invented Christmas”Disney+ Movie: “While You Were Sleeping”Hulu Movie: “Miracle on 34th Street”Hallmark Movie: “Pictures of Hollis Woods”On…

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