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See The Cosmic Ballet In An MIT Hallway

Davis Dunavin
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WSHU
Students, faculty and others watch as the sun creeps down MIT’s Infinite Corridor. MIThenge discoverer Tom Norton is pictured top-left, watching, while lying flat on the landing.";

You probably know about the phenomenon of Stonehenge – an ancient alignment of giant slabs that acts as a cosmic calendar. There’s something like that here in the U.S. too. It’s called MIThenge. And yes, it’s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT – in Cambridge.

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.