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...Rise and Fall of the Russian Avant-Garde”. Frequenters of the Kong may look to C-40, “The Chinese Literati.” Of course, the classes’ specificity means that one could very easily drown in terrible boredom amidst the German Colonial Imagination if one didn’t have a pre-existing interest in the subject. We particularly recommend Professor Tomás Ó Cathasaigh’s course, C-20, “The Hero of Irish Myth and Saga”, which talks about lots of battles and killing...
...University computer scientist Peter Robinson led a team, which included colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that has developed software that enables computers to "read minds." A video camera focuses on 24 different facial features from which the software can often decipher people's mental states, including comprehension, boredom and excitement. Robinson says the technology could be used to find the right moment to sell someone a product online...
...free papers that could challenge its evening dominance. One, London Lite, is published by the Standard's own parent company, [an error occurred while processing this directive] Associated Newspapers. Launched last week with 400,000 copies daily, London Lite aims for young professionals seeking to ease commuter boredom, but not willing to shell out the U.S. 95? for the Standard. Handed out at transport hot spots around the city, the skinny read blends top headline coverage with entertainment news and reviews, gossip and sport. Concerns about cannibalizing the Standard aside, it's easy to understand Associated's gambit. While...
During a four-hour flight delay at London's Heathrow Airport two years ago, Norman Crowley battled boredom by putting his business acumen to use. Crowley is co- ceo of Inspired Gaming Group, a company whose software transforms analogue machines into digital ones. He and several coworkers found themselves staring at a Coke machine that attracted one [an error occurred while processing this directive] customer every 20 minutes. "We thought, this is crazy," it could be doing so much more. Crowley called an old friend, Clyde Pereira, the chief information officer at Coca-Cola HBC, the company's European distributor...
...lawyer's defense against a long line of pessimists. Luigi Barzini, a foreign correspondent and prolific writer, in perhaps the most authoritative of Italian portraits, described a country resigned to a downward spiral in his classic book, The Italians. Barzini paints his people as peddlers of "ruses to defeat boredom and discipline, to forget disgrace and misfortune, to lull man's angst to sleep and comfort him in his solitude." Severgnini uses much finer brushstrokes in his interpretation of Italians' shortcomings, which borders on praise. In Crema, where he's still based, he pauses in his tour to point...