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...these overreactions.Hand-wringing and reactionary maneuvers are not the solution to college drinking. If Harvard wants to maintain the reputation it has had for three and a half centuries, it needs to cultivate love of alma mater in its students, not pander to the whims of media outlets and cave to the fears of alarmists.Let’s leave that kind of nonsense to Yale. Andrew Kreicher ’06 is a biology concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Fridays...
...nosing in wherever it can make things substantially more convenient—the subtle implications of the changes often going unnoticed until they’ve been observed carefully for quite some time. And further, those implications may in many regards be overwhelmingly positive. But lest we cave in some sense to the demands of the ever-growing Facebook group which proposes the California Relocation of Harvard University, we ought to recognize that despite how irritating alarm clocks might seem, and despite how unappealing the blustery walk to Maxwell Dworkin might be, there really is something to the buildings...
...Kiama blowhole, south of Sydney, tourists watch from a discreet distance as geysers of spray burst from a hole in the cliff top. Growing up in the area, Tom Denniss was fascinated by these eruptions, caused when waves rushing deep into a cave force a mix of compressed air and water out through a gap in the roof. Now, a few miles south of Kiama, in the industrial city of Port Kembla, Denniss and his company, Energetech, are using the principles of the blowhole to turn wave energy into electricity...
...place of a cave, Energetech's four-story-high floating power plant has an open-based, dome-roofed chamber with a narrow opening at the top. As the waves rise and fall inside the chamber, compressed air is forced in and out of the opening, past a turbine that drives a generator. The device, which has been dubbed an "oscillating water column," has been the basis of several plans for generating useful energy. But Denniss, a former lecturer in mathematics and oceanography, curved one wall of the chamber to amplify the wave, much as a car headlight's concave reflecting...
DISCOVERED. The BONES of nine members of what some archeologists say is a new species of hominid that may have existed as recently as 12,000 years ago, at the same time as modern man; in Liang Bua cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Researchers say the findings, published last week in Nature, give weight to the case for a new species, which they have dubbed Homo floresiensis. Last year the 18,000-year-old remains of a 1-m-tall woman with a braincase the size of a chimpanzee were discovered at the same site. Some experts remain...