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Beginning on Friday, Shleifer was identified only as a “Professor of Economics” at Harvard, though his personal website remained unchanged. Previously, he had occupied the more prestigious, endowed chair as the Whipple VanNess Jones professor. It was unclear whether the demotion would correspond with a cut in salary...
...Council on Foreign Relations found “Harvard and Beyond” to be more precise and not a victim of what he called a “common pathology,” with answer sets that aren’t exhaustive or don’t correspond to actual responses. As the basis for their own survey, the principal investigators looked at previous surveys, including the Mellon Foundation’s deacde-old study, “College and Beyond,” long considered a seminal work. College and Beyond targeted 34 selective colleges, but Harvard...
...front doors and is equipped with coffee machines that dispense their bitter nectar to supplicants day, night, and that unclassifiable time in between. Your freshman year “multivariable calculus/linear algebra” class introduces you to the field of Smathematics. The four courses at this level correspond to the four kinds of people in the world: Math 21 is for those who will never be mathematicians, but need to be able to calculate some things. This is not really mathematics. Math 23 is for those who wish that they could be mathematicians, but aren’t eager...
...evolved to think that fertility and health are sexy. Sexual selection in a nutshell: If people did not think that attributes linked to these positive characteristics were attractive, the human race would have died out pretty quickly. For example, female fertility is indicated by curvier bodies, which correspond to higher estrogen levels and more advantageous fat distribution—curvier girls get pregnant easily and can have truckloads of children. So why is the fashion industry emphasizing this totally unprecedented aesthetic? When I look at the fashion-forward Europeans, all I see is disaster. Tight jeans on men make them...
...find out whether there are normal variations in the gene that codes for perilipin that affect a person's risk of becoming obese or developing diabetes. In a study conducted with Ordovas of 1,600 people in Valencia, Spain, Greenberg determined that some of the mutations do seem to correspond to a thinner physique and reduced glucose and triglyceride levels. But other variations in the same gene seem to predispose women to be heavier and have less healthy results in blood tests...