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Let's Get Physical: Movies Ignoring the Law of Physics

by Robert Arrighi, New Dorp Library
October 20, 2011

Forget everything you have learned and remember nothing that you have forgotten.

After barely passing Earth Science and failing Chemistry due to a combination of attendance and attention deficits, my guidance counselor thought it best for me to take a sequence of business classes so I could graduate high school. Because of this I never took a physics class. My path through college didn't wind through a physics class either. Anything I know about physics I've learned from Hollywood.

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Jane McGonigal and NYPL present Find the Future: The Game

by Rebecca Hohmann, Digital and Print Publications
April 1, 2011

For 100 years, The New York Public Library's landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and its world-renowned collections have inspired people everywhere to find their futures. In honor of the Centennial Celebration, pioneering game designer Jane McGonigal helped the Library kick off its Weekend Festival with Find the Future: The Game, an all-night scavenger hunt in the Stephen A.

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Ask NYPL: How Was X-Ray Invented?

by Samantha Thompson
August 11, 2010

Did you know you can ask NYPL librarians questions via text message? You can ask anything, from the mundane and everyday ("what are your hours?") to the perplexing riddle keeping you up at night! The Virtual Reference Team (aka Ask NYPL) offers text reference, which is a great way to receive an almost immediate answer without missing a beat. Text questions are answered quickly unless the question mystifies the expert reference librarians of Ask NYPL, but a response will always be given.

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