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Halamka volunteered to participate in the PGP primarily due to his background combining medicine and technology...
...While Stanford used LEED certifications as background, the university ultimately decided to use their own guidelines to regulate the construction of the building. Cleary said that the university had several problems with LEED, including the price of certification, estimated at $100,000, which he said could better be used to equip the building with better technology...
...students,” Pilbeam said in a statement. Wrangham and Ross first came to the United States after living and being educated in Great Britain. A member of Harvard’s faculty since 1989, Wrangham has taught courses in human evolutionary biology and anthropology. Ross, whose academic background is in immunology, is the founder and executive director of the Kasiisi Project, a non-profit in western Uganda. Wrangham co-taught the Core class Science B-29: “Evolution of Human Nature” for a number of years, but he said he considers...
...world: We all are constantly creating narratives for ourselves. Steven Berlin Johnson observed the cognitive value of reality TV in his book Everything Bad is Good For You: “As each show discloses its rules and conventions, and each participant reveals his or her personality traits and background, the intrigue in watching comes from figuring out how the participants should best navigate the environment that’s been created for them.” Watch closely, watch often, and patterns start to emerge...
...their wide catalog of cover songs ranges from punk to funk. “We Have You Surrounded” finds the Dirtbombs combining all their musical strengths onto one disc. Soulful second track “Ever Lovin’ Man,” with its Motown-esque background vocals, harkens back to their widely-praised 2001 covers album, “Ultraglide In Black.” Elsewhere, the gritty “I Hear The Sirens” adopts the party-pop ethos of 2003’s “Dangerous Magical Noise...