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Allow us to correct--or better, to provide some facts about--the piece discussed. As a part of Asian American Cultural Month: Celebrating the Diversity of Asian American, AAA commissioned Mona Higuchi, an Arizona-based artist, to incorporate the responses of over 300 Harvard-Radcliffe students into a coherent exhibit. Collected in various dining halls earlier in the year, these were responses to the question, "Do you identify strongly with being Asian American, or is it just another label?" In the spirit of inclusion and celebrating the multiplicity of the Asian American perspective, all responses were displayed. With the help...
...Lauer and Postman might have done wrong, despite strenuous efforts to do so. The analysis is incorrect, they say, simply because it doesn't fit in with any existing theory of how the cosmos works. "Listen," fumes Lauer, who is stationed at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, Arizona, "we knew this was a shocking result. That's why we spent over a year trying to debunk it ourselves before we went public. If anyone can present a good argument why it's wrong, we'll listen...
...CRISIS: "You can't be older than your ma," quips Christopher Impey of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. Sounds obvious, maybe, but if Freedman and her colleagues are right about their space-telescope observations, it would seem that the universe hasn't caught on to this bit of common sense. The most straightforward interpretation of their data implies that the cosmos is 12 billion years old, max. But experts insist that the oldest stars in the Milky Way have been around for at least 14 billion years. "They could quite easily be several billion years older than that...
Princeton astrophysicist David Spergel offered a telling historical anecdote in an address to colleagues at the American Astronomical Society's January meeting in Tucson, Arizona. In the 19th century, it dawned on astronomers that the orbits of Uranus and Mercury weren't exactly what theory predicted. So they proposed the existence of as-yet-undiscovered planets whose gravity was causing the anomalies-sort of the Cold Dark Matter of the time. Sure enough, Neptune finally appeared in their telescopes. But the other planet, Vulcan, never did materialize. In the end, said Spergel, it took the theory of general relativity...
...Arizona State baseball team and the California Angels replacement players got together two nights ago for the first game involving replacement players in 83 years. (Insert your favorite joke right here...