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...observe ordinary roach behavior, Halloy and his colleagues created an enclosure with two "shelters" inside - red-tinted plastic disks mounted so that roaches could scurry underneath to avoid bright light, which they do instinctively. When the insects were dumped into the enclosure, they scrambled around randomly for a while, but eventually all huddled under the same shelter. That they huddled is no surprise, since roaches like to gather in crowds. But since cockroaches don't have enough intelligence to allow for leadership skills or even communication, the fact that they collectively decide on one shelter looks, says Halloy, "like...
...type of dim red star known as an M-dwarf, only about a hundredth as bright as the sun. During the 1990s, sky surveys revealed that these puny stars are as thick as ants at a picnic, accounting for up to 70% of all the stars in the Milky Way. Because an M-dwarf is so faint, its habitable zone is much smaller, so any planet that falls within that zone would be much closer to it than Earth is to the sun. And that, says Harvard astronomer David Charbonneau, gives planet hunters a huge advantage. "Basically," he says...
...that’s a problem. Sure, there are some brave souls, some early risers, who don’t mind heading down to New Haven on Saturday morning and will be free to take in the best hockey game of the year tomorrow night at the Bright Hockey Center. But for most of us, who are planning to pile into a car or bus with our friends tomorrow afternoon to make the trip down, it means we have to choose...
...hockey beat writer, but I am not a hypocrite. I’m not going to plead with the student body to choose Harvard-Cornell over Harvard-Yale, especially when I, like everybody else, will be halfway to New Haven by the time the puck drops at the Bright. Harvard isn’t a national athletic powerhouse in most major sports, but there’s no game anywhere quite like Harvard-Yale, especially not this year, and there’s no way you can miss...
...teammates may be optimistic, but ultimately, even if the Crimson does win, the rest of us still lose. Those of us who opted to go to Yale will miss our chance to watch it happen. The small, football-shunning Harvard crowd that does make it out to the Bright will suffer the indignity of being dwarfed by the Cornell fans like never before. Even our school’s good name is at stake. The number of students at a Harvard game is, among other things, an expression of spirit, a declaration of Harvard pride. This weekend, thanks...