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...don’t want some random antenna being put up,” said Yang Gao ’11, a Pforzheimer resident. Jokingly, he added, “It could give me brain cancer...
...change on signs and on tables. Regina H. Higgins, a card swiper in Winthrop House, said nobody had told her the date of the switch but that she thinks essentially everything “will be the same.” The new ID cards have two stripes, an antenna, and an embedded chip inside. “They have all the best card technology in them,” Martin said. Students will ruin the chip if they punch a hole in their card to attach it to a key chain. Bonnie Kimball, a swiper in Leverett House, said...
...around at Harvard for the new Gen Ed curriculum, this prospect strikes fear into our hearts. Analog showed us a side of television later generations will not witness: the side where everyone is slightly green, and people shift in and out of focus when you step near to the antenna. Those of us who return home to cathode-ray tubes each vacation must consider the Analog Darkness whenever we choose Core classes. What kind of post-television exchanges will “Dinosaurs and their Relatives” lead to? How about “Justice”? Will...
...Antenna aquiver for false notes, she checks in at the abortion clinic and doesn't like its casually clinical attitude. This kid can hear false notes pitched too high for most human ears to discern. So she checks out the alternative press and finds an ad placed by a couple seeking adoption. The Lorings (Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman) are rich, welcoming and ostensibly eager for the fulfillment their biology has denied them. OK, she's a little uptight, and underneath his charm there's something elusive about him. But still, given the limited alternatives available to Juno they qualify...
...probably never seen an RFID tag, but chances are there's one within 10 ft. of you. An RFID tag--it stands for radio-frequency identification--is a tiny device consisting of a very small chip attached to a very small antenna. The chip is no great shakes, but it doesn't have to be; it just stores one very large number. When the RFID tag hears a particular radio signal, it responds by broadcasting back the number in its chip. That's its entire purpose in life. Some prototype RFID tags are about the size of a grain...