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Tech transfer is “a lottery business,” says Lita L. Nelsen, the director of MIT’s technology licensing office. A single invention can be akin to hitting the jackpot...
This spring, Harvard gave me money for a post-graduate trip to research baseball, which is basically akin to giving a five-year-old money to research a candy shop. And on the day that the fellowship paperwork arrived in the mail, I understood exactly why Harvard was “Harvard...
...best. And the most optimistic projections put deployment in Europe more than five years away. Yet if that should reassure Putin, it hasn't. He and the Russians see the deployment as both a potential future threat to their missile arsenal and as an affront to their national security akin to the American view of Khrushchev's deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba in the early 1960s. So if the systems, which aren't even ready yet, are causing so much agitation in Russia, why is the Administration pushing as hard as it is on the issue...
...place. No 21st century reader needs reminding that zealous belief in unseen or partial evidence can have disastrous results. A thesis may begin with Paul’s version of belief, but it is developed only with a commitment to a process akin to the scientific method. You try out a hypothesis, have the guts to follow it through, and then evenly assess what you have. Crises of belief—“what if I am wrong?”—do threaten one’s resolve to forge ahead, but they also offer...
...ungovernable.” He draws an analogy between Soviet republics and Harvard’s different “tubs”, each of differing sizes and resources—the Faculty of Arts and Sciences being like Russia, the largest, with other faculties like Law and Business akin to the likes of Kazakhstan and the Ukraine.This unequal balance of power across the University is reflected in Harvard’s library system. Verba himself is hard pressed to describe the process of building consensus on the University Library Council, the group of librarians heading the different faculty libraries...