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...Webster explains it, the thousands of miles of westward shift of Pacific Ocean warming seen during an El Niño Modoki essentially shifts the Atlantic hurricanes westward as well. "It's as if you had a big aquarium with a Bunsen burner below it," he says. "The heat causes a rising and sinking motion in the water. If you shift the position of the burner, you shift the motion of the water too." The El Niño Modokis also result in reduced vertical wind shear and therefore promote the creation of hurricanes. (When vertical wind shear...
...come as a distasteful surprise. All of us at Harvard College expected we would be able to allow students to concentrate in physics, as we have for many years. This year, however, Harvard faced a significant challenge: our exhaustive study of laboratory supply closets revealed that the shortage of Bunsen burners was more extensive than previous information had indicated, and raised serious questions about whether the labs could successfully accommodate any new physics concentrators...
...have looked into several alternatives, including leasing Bunsen burners from other facilities such as MIT, Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Emerson, Suffolk, Wellesley, Babson, Amherst, Brandeis, Northeastern, UMass-Boston, Berklee, Simmons, Bunker Hill Community College, and Lesley. Unfortunately, despite the abundance of Bunsen burners at neighboring colleges and local high schools, some of which are only a minute’s walk from Harvard, we have ruled out that option as a logistical unreality. We also decided against considering any equipment used for heating, sterilization, and combustion other than Bunsen burners...
...That being said, physics concentrators are a minority within the Harvard community, and though their contribution will be missed, we need to be able to accommodate other departments, amend the Core Curriculum, and finish construction in our Allston campus before we can focus all of our attention to providing Bunsen burners to every student who needs...
...expect to begin readmitting physics concentrators in the fall of 2011, when the shortage of Bunsen burners is expected to be have been ameliorated. At that point we will have utilized our massive endowment to more thoroughly organize our supply closets across campus...