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"You try to make it as good as you can, but with an action movie or whatever it is, you're doing it so you can get leverage to go do Grace Is Gone or whatever these other ones are. So there's a ceiling on how good you can make something."
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A well deserved astrophysics prize
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Micron-scale wires that vibrate for more than a million oscilaltions before damping out.
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New results from my old research group, showing BEC atoms flowing in circles for seconds.
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