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Two Summers back, Nigel Nisbet didn’t have much use for sunglasses. After a week-long training course, the Van Nuys High School math teacher spent his vacation days learning Java computer programming.

Some scientific discoveries matter because they reveal something new — the double helical structure of DNA, for example, or the existence of black holes. However, some revelations are profound because ...