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Jadwin Gym, with a capacity of 6,854, and the Palestra, with a maximum of 8,700, are the two biggest Ivy League arenas. For comparison, Lavietes Pavilion, the home of Harvard hoops, can seat only 2,195. Not coincidentally, the twin basketball behemoths regularly have the largest and most frenzied crowds of any league venue...
...poured out, online and in print. Some were shitty (The Village Voice). Some were fantastic (Tom Wolfe for the Wall Street Journal). All spoke to the creative force of his demiurgic persona, to his self-characterization, and to his embodiment of Nixon-era counter-culture. But all paled in comparison to the full-throttled elegy he would have scribed...
Inside, we listen with the drunk and stoned Swedes. But now, we roll deep. We’re a family of strangely dressed, drunken, threatened kids. People hug each other. The band seems boring in comparison...
...times, The IA’s full-bodied and soulful sound was reminiscent of classic fusion acts such as Medeski, Martin and Wood as well as more current genre-benders such as Robert Walter’s 20th Congress, Galactic or Soulive. The Galactic comparison seems especially apt after hearing the band members stretch out on their 15-minute opening instrumental...
...most studies agree that men's brains are about 10% bigger than women's brains overall. Even when the comparison is adjusted for the fact that men are, on average, 8% taller than women, men's brains are still slightly bigger. But size does not predict intellectual performance, as was once thought. Men and women perform similarly on IQ tests. And most scientists still cannot tell male and female brains apart just by looking at them...