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🌱 How Claude Shannon’s 1939 summer shaped Cold Spring Harbor science history

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Hello Cold Spring Harbor! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Claude Shannon's 1939 summer shaped Cold Spring Harbor science history

Also on today's calendar: Nutcracker Ballet Auditions for LI Ballet Theatre's 40th annual Nutcracker and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What has a tail, but no body? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Mostly sunny; low humidity, with a high of 72 and low of 58 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and nice, temps: high: 77, low: 65.
  • Thursday: Humid with some sun, with a high of 79 and low of 68 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Claude Shannon's CSHL summer (cshl.edu) — Cold Spring Harbor residents can take pride in their local laboratory's role in shaping modern information theory, thanks to Claude Shannon's influential 1939 summer at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The piece traces how his early genetics work there connects to today's AI-driven genomics and even inspires Anthropic's Claude AI.
   

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  • Northport High School Marks 25th Anniversary Of Sept. 11 (patch.com)

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