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...September by the California Faculty Association, a union of professors and other employees in the CSU system. The contest invites CSU students to create their own anti-Arnold websites or 30-second videos. The winner in each category will receive a year's tuition ($2,520), paid for by CFA members' dues. The video that receives the most votes online will also appear as an ad in California TV markets during Comedy Central's The Daily Show. CFA student interns, regular users of YouTube and Daily Show fans came up with the Flunk Arnold idea, says the union's president...
...Nine Pickles,” as the old mnemonic device goes. But even though Pluto has been officially demoted, the skies have just revealed two new planets to Harvard astronomers. The widely-publicized HAT-P-1, identified last week by scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), is the largest planet ever detected. But researchers at the same center have also found another so-called “hot Jupiter”—a significant discovery in its own right. Both breakthroughs came with the aid of small amateur telescopes. The smaller and less-publicized...
...MBTA station, the bird calls are deafening. Hundreds of wrens swoop through the head-high reeds in dizzy spirals and whorls.But change is coming for the 90 species of birds, from hawks to owls, that call the wetlands home. The construction of the new Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) building in Alewife will lead to the removal of some nesting places, but also, community activists hope, open up the wetlands to a much broader range of animal and plant species in one of Cambridge’s wildest spaces.In addition to the birds, 19 different mammal species, including woodchucks...
...determinant, rather, was that Oak Ridge didn’t compare to other CFA sites in Arizona, Chile, and Hawaii, according to Professor of Astronomy and CFA Director Charles Alcock, who made the decision...
While the closure may seem like a giant leap for those involved, he said, it’s a small step for the CFA itself. The decision did not lie entirely in Harvard’s hands, as it was run by Smithsonian scientists with Smithsonian money...