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...There is nothing wrong with being savvy in business, and “Mindless Eating” is only as well-packaged as any other commodity. On the cover (which has a matte white finish and medium blue font strikingly similar to that of “Blink”), “Ph.D.” is displayed prominently beside Wansink’s name, an appealing adjective that both validates “Mindless Eating” as a diet book and elevates the reader’s expectations...
...fastest supercomputers in the world is now up and running for Harvard’s Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS). The IBM Blue Gene, which has the processing power of several thousand desktop computers in roughly the floor space of two desks, will be used to study complex systems such as blood circulation and galaxy formation, according to Director of Information Technology Joy Sircar. Harvard’s Blue Gene is called CrimsonGridBGL and will be part of the DEAS’s Crimson Grid, a technology initiative aimed at creating a campus-wide technology infrastructure for research...
...because of his death, and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skillling has been sentenced to 24 years in prison. But if anyone thinks that means the end of the Enron legal battles, they are as mistaken as the analysts who thought the once high-flying energy trader was a blue chip with a bright future...
...indigenous art. In a room to the right of Love Story, the Australian art divide is made spurious with the photographic works of Rosemary Laing and Michael Riley. The late Wiradjuri-Gamilaraay artist's final Cloud series suspended emblems of Aboriginal identity and dispossession in the same liquid-blue sky Laing sent her brides flying through. For her most recent series, the Sydney-based Laing traveled to the desert community of Balgo, where she set fire to Ikea-style furniture arranged in the shape of Uluru. "This set up a conversation between these two places," she wrote, "the histories...
...darker the hue, the greater the percentage of college student volunteers in that state. Massachusetts, as it were, was an immaculate white. (I won’t try to explain the significant positive correlation between red states on this map and those on a traditional red-blue map. The political repercussions are beyond this piece.) Coming in 47th out of 50 states, the state that puts “The Spirit of America” on its license plates had a 24 percent college volunteering rate, 6.5 percent below the national average and better than only New York, Nevada...