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Deerfield’s Alex Berry named National Merit semifinalist

By khogencamp / October 10, 2011 / Uncategorized / Comments

Tweet Special to the Journal Alex Berry, a senior at Deerfield-Windsor School was recently named a semifinalist for the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship Program. Semifinalists are designated within geographic regions and are the highest-scoring program entrants in the states that make up each region. Berry is one of more than 160,000 African-American high school juniors [...]

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Modeling the Universe

By khogencamp / October 10, 2011 / Words from the Wetherbee / Comments

Tweet A team of scientists working at the NASA Ames Research Center have created the newest, most accurate simulation of the universe, called the Bolshoi supercomputer simulation. The purpose of the simulation, according to the University of California, Santa Cruz (where one of the lead researchers hails from) is to “compute and model the evolution [...]

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Author Doug Dahlgren coming to Albany for book signing at Merry Acres

By khogencamp / October 10, 2011 / Press Releases / Comments

Tweet Having spent most of his high school years here, Decatur, Georgia author Doug Dahlgren still refers to Albany as “home.” He will be coming to Albany on October 15th to discuss and sign copies of his “The Son Series” books. Dahlgren writes novels that make you think, while keeping you on the edge of your [...]

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What’s App?

By Tom Knighton / October 10, 2011 / Geek Speak / Comments

Tweet Hey what’s up with all these apps? What is an app anyway? Well from its root, app comes from application which is a software program that runs within the Operating System of a computer. The OS is also software, but it’s like the main overseer of all the other software and the hardware as [...]