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...even if that candidate stands little chance of winning the election. The concept of principled voting is a lost one in American politics; drones of citizens vote for the most charismatic candidate, often without carefully considering the policy implications of their decisions. A recent study by Boaz Shamir indicates that voting preferences are closely correlated with a candidate’s perceived charisma, while Daniel Benjamin performed a behavioral analysis suggesting that “undecided voters choose based on [the charisma that the candidates exude...
Green is the new black, and sustainability has been declared our savior. Yet scientists still face an uphill battle for the fickle attentions of the public. Sung H. Kang, Boaz Pokroy, and Joanna Aizenberg of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences turned to visual art. They collectively won the photography division of the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, which awards images that present complicated research in a layman-friendly way—images that bring the science to the people...
...competition, sponsored by the journal Science in conjunction with the National Science Foundation, presented the award to Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy, and Joanna Aizenberg from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
...Brown betraying anxiety over his luggage? According to FBI agent Kelly Boaz's affidavit in federal court, Brown variously told the FBI that he planned to bomb a tree stump back home in Jamaica and that he wanted to show friends how to build explosive devices like the ones he saw while he says he was in the U.S. military in Iraq. Initial record checks by the FBI indicate Brown was in the U.S. legally, but have not yet confirmed that he was a military veteran. Brown has been charged with knowingly and willfully attempting to place or attempt...
...political agendas. And though Harvard and a number of other schools boast libertarian organizations, the scattered aspect of the philosophy makes it difficult, even with such great support, for these students to mobilize. But the libertarians seem to be hopeful. At the very least, as Cato’s Boaz puts it, “On the broad issue, I definitely think there are more people in the socially liberal, fiscally conservative camp. That means people are ‘broadly’ libertarian...