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...what about when the brain goes the other way? What about when racism isn't an unconscious bias you wish you didn't have but a hatred you embrace? It's hard to know how ordinary human brains become so twisted, but the problem may begin with our ability to fathom time...
...Barney episode or The New Pornographers’ “Mutiny, I Promise You” video. This is your typical indie pop outfit (think Tilly and the Wall) video: hyper-chromatic garb and lighting, bouncy vocals, DIY sets and props, and relentless, exaggerated theatricality. The band members begin in an overcrowded cardboard box doing “cool” things like reading Borges and taking Polaroid shots of each other. A girl with two long braids (you’ll recognize her as Mel from “Flight of the Conchords?...
...cruelty. The rest of us can donate to the “yes” campaign online, and urge our Californian friends to vote. Beyond that, we can work to make America entirely cage-free. And if charity starts at home, there’s no better place to begin than Harvard–where two thirds of the eggs in our undergraduate dining halls still come from hens living in battery cages like those described above. For the environment, human health, and the animals themselves, that needs to change...
...federal funding for research. Over the past eight years, the Bush administration has repeatedly tightened the purse strings of the NIH; today only one in every four grant application is funded. Federal budget constraints will continue to tighten in the next few years, even if the credit markets begin to thaw. As the stock market continues to fall and central banks race to cut interest rates, the future of all institutions, especially nonprofits, is hazy. Because of this, Harvard needs philanthropy—particularly for scientific research—now more than ever. Donations are crucial for the development...
...stairs leading to “Studio 74” at the Office for the Arts are already packed with a peculiar crowd by 8 p.m., when the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team swing lesson is scheduled to begin. Local community members of every age—Baby Boomer couples looking to spice up married life, graduate students fine-tuning their skillz on the dance floor, and a motley of others—mingle with students as we wait awkwardly for the previous class to vacate the room...