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Besides their graying hair, other factors also distinguish this crowd from the average Harvard student. Colin Nickerson, a foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe who is taking courses through a fellowship, says he enrolls in science courses for his own enjoyment...
...addition, Douthat is unabashedly Eurocentric. It is a tragedy, he claims, that an undergraduate might leave Harvard’s walls “unable to distinguish Justinian the Great from Julian the Apostate.” Instead, they’re more likely to be familiar with propaganda in Nazi Germany, the role of the samurai in Japanese culture, or the Castro regime in Cuba. Of all the things to criticize, why complain that Harvard is too successful in attempting to expand the cultural and intellectual horizons of its students...
...making them just another face in the crowd. It’s that much harder to stand out, especially at Harvard, when your name is as common as ours. But ultimately, what we gain from our homogeneity outweighs the downside. The unremarkable nature of our name forces people to distinguish us by our finer details. Having three Sara(h)s in my creative writing class last semester trained the professor to know us by our work, not just by our name. We’re described as musicians, athletes, and poets. Two syllables are not enough to encapsulate...
...France is now counting on modern science to catch the truffle imposters. The National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) has developed a DNA analysis to distinguish French fungi from the Chinese ones without a taste test. Although French regulations call for a truffle's origins to be clearly marked, truffle experts say many vendors either ignore the rules or engage in outright mislabeling. France's fraud-control directorate now carries out random DNA testing to flush out bogus-truffle dealers. Anyone caught intending to deceive the consumer with a Chinese truffle may be fined $1,300. Still, there...
This is true whether you are looking at how satisfied you are with your life in general or with something more specific, such as your kids, your car, your job or your vacation. Kahneman likes to distinguish between the experiencing self and the remembering self. His studies show that what you remember of an experience is particularly influenced by the emotional high and low points and by how it ends. So, if you were to randomly beep someone on vacation in Italy, you might catch that person waiting furiously for a slow-moving waiter to take an order or grousing...