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Above: The Inn at Virginia Tech, in beautiful Blacksburg, Virginia. Below: Galumphing links this week includes a call to visit Mount Vernon (especially in the spring), a reminder about plants that are poisonous to dogs, recipes for all those James Bond drinks we read about and saw in the movies, and, something I’m sure we’ve all wondered, just how much is Smaug the dragon worth? Visit Mount Vernon in the spring! 10 plants . . . → Read More: Smaug the dragon and galumphing through the Internet Another murder. From the Richmond Times Dispatch: BLACKSBURG — Haiyang Zhu and Xin Yang, two Chinese graduate students at Virginia Tech, were seemingly doing nothing more than enjoying a quiet conversation and a cup of coffee together at a campus cafe when, abruptly, Zhu pulled a knife. In the following seconds, the school’s police chief said today, Zhu savagely attacked the 22-year-old woman, cutting off her head. academia, culture, security, virginia Related Posts:Smaug the dragon . . . → Read More: Another tragedy at Virginia Tech Congratulations to Virginia Tech – in the latest DARPA autonomous robotic vehicle challenge, which required autonomous vehicles to navigate sixty miles in an urban environment, do three-point turns, park, follow the rules of the road, etc., Virginia Tech’s vehicle won third place. Appropriately – their robot vehicle was named Odin. . . . → Read More: Virginia Tech Places Third in DARPA Urban Challenge There will be an an event held at Virginia Tech titled “Bellerophon to Beowulf to Batman: The Image of the Hero”, Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 7-9pm, in 113 McBryde Hall. . . . → Read More: The Image of the Hero The full report of the Virginia Tech Review Panel regarding the massacre of students and faculty members by Seung Hui Cho has been released. . . . → Read More: Virginia Tech Review Panel Report The killer of yesterday’s massacre at Virginia Tech has been identified as Cho Seung-hui, 23, a native of South Korea and in the US as a resident alien…. After hearing about the mass shootings, I sent one of my friends a Facebook message asking him if he knew anything about Seung Cho and if he could have been involved. . . . → Read More: Virginia Tech: the Face of a Killer News reports are still coming in, but it looks as though today’s shooting spree at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, may be one of the largest mass shootings in U.S. history…. From University President Charles Steger: The university was struck today with a tragedy of monumental proportions. . . . → Read More: Black Monday at Virginia Tech What: The second presentation in the Engineering Excellence in the 21st Century Distinguished Lecture Series Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX Space Exploration Technologies When: Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 7:30 p.m. Where: Burruss Hall Auditorium on the Virginia Tech campus Cost: Free SpaceX is developing a family of launch vehicles intended to reduce the cost and increase the reliability of access to space. With its Falcon 1, Falcon 5 and Falcon 9 launch vehicles, SpaceX is able to offer light, medium and heavy lift capabilities to deliver spacecraft into any inclination and altitude, from low Earth orbit to geosynchronous orbit to planetary missions. . . . → Read More: SpaceX Presentation |
 
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