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Chopping and sauteing are gender-blind activities, and boys are now just as likely as girls to take cooking classes. "It's pretty much even in the classes," says Greenbrier's Senn. Many of these youngsters--particularly the boys--discovered the pleasures of cooking from watching TV. In January the Food Network's share of viewers ages 2 to 11 was up 67% on weekend mornings over the past year. "The popularity of the Food Network and the rising perception of the chef as celebrity have made a huge difference," says Senn. Many of the chefs are male, and they...
...Brussels. There Marie, a 63-year-old Belgian woman, is treated to visions of red, blue and yellow dots arranged in neat little rows like the tops of Lego building blocks. Glimpses of Lego bricks are hardly worth getting excited about, but Marie is enthralled - because she's blind...
Marie started to lose her vision when a condition known as retinitis pigmentosa caused the rod and cone cells in her retina to degenerate. When rod and cone cells die off, the retina is rendered insensitive to light and the result is blindness. Marie's case followed the typical pattern. First her rod cells went, leaving only a slim tunnel of vision through which she could still manage to recognize objects and read with difficulty. But then as her cone cells failed, this last narrow window on the world snapped shut and she was left completely blind - even though...
...produce red. If this turns out to be the case, Veraart and his team intend to compile a lexicon of correspondences so that specific visual stimuli can be easily reproduced. Imagine public spaces seeded with a kind of invisible braille, live pixels embedded in doors, stairways and streetcorners that blind MIVIP users could employ to see important information about their immediate surroundings. Veraart and his colleagues are working to refine the technology so that the blind could actually see obstacles like chairs and tables in this...
...Harvard students have access to over a million dollars in summer and academic year research opportunities, and to unlimited career options following graduation. Most of all, Harvard’s long tradition of providing need-blind admissions and need-based financial aid for all students, coupled with the recent initiatives to strengthen the scholarship program, have resulted in a student body that is unparalleled in its excellence...