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As the season turns to spring in the U.S., many soon-to-be college graduates and their soon-to-be employers turn their focus to the job market. In answer to the questions that graduates inevitably face from friends and family - "What will you do with your degree?" - one response should certainly be, "Find work with an exciting startup."

While some colleges are developing solid entrepreneurial programs, many graduates are still prone to believe that their best post-college employment prospects are to be found with more established companies. To change that perception, the Columbia Venture Company and the NYU Venture Company are hosting the first annual NYC Startup Job Fair.

Have you ever wondered what the English language looks? Yeah, neither have I. But a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University did, and tapping into the billions of images freely available on the Internet, they came up with a visual map of the English language using nearly 80 million of those images. The images are arranged based on the semantic relationship between words, and thus, according to the researchers, the project explores "the relationship between visual and semantic similarity."