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...oceanographers familiar with the subject say research into ocean-mixing is only just beginning and that it's too early to make such assertions. "I appreciate what they [the Caltech team] are saying, but taking experiments of one particular event and extrapolating it to a global scale is always problematic," says oceanographer Andre Visser of the Technical University of Denmark...
...Siemens Competition, go watch The Space Between (Loeb Mainstage, 8 p.m., $8), a play about Caltech professor Richard Feynman. It’s also a chance to hobnob with some MIT kids, who get in free tonight...
...exploration of how to make theoretical physics manifest on stage. Inspired by the late Samuel Beckett, the play lacks a traditional form. Instead, it is divided into the intertwining stories of different couples who act almost as analogous pairs. The principle couple is Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb, and his wife, who in this play is called Eurydice. Both are dying and reflecting on their youth. Another story involves a Biblical Adam and Eve, echoed by a modern Adam, a painter, and Eve, his lover and one of Feynman’s students...
...Rosen D. Kralev ’09, Yi Sun ’09, Dmitry Vaintrob ’11, Ameya A. Velingker ’09 and Neal Wadhwa ’09 all received honorable mentions. Behind Harvard, teams from Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech rounded out the top five teams this year. —Staff writer Michael J. Ding can be reached at ding2@fas.harvard.edu
...could address the conversational Groundhog Day that all Harvard undergraduates live in. This institute could rid Harvardians of the classic conversation crutches: summer plans, work complaints, sleep complaints, dining hall complaints, praise for the caring professionals at UHS, and what biddy Michael K. Jaskiw ’09, recruited Caltech athlete, is grillin’. [1] Instead, students will learn to try new topics by discussing two randomly drawn Apples to Apples cards. Conversation will certainly steam up when someone draws the green card “tasty” and the red card “Helen Keller...