The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement

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We spoke to the smoot's namesake
Interview On a chilly October evening in 1958, a group of MIT students shuffled onto the Harvard Bridge, which separates the university town of Cambridge from Boston proper. The shortest among them lay down on the sidewalk at the bridge's start, his…

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