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SCIENCE PROVES SUMMERS WRONG Male scientists who do good research succeed because they’re just so womanly, an actual study has found. The University of Bath’s Mark Brosnan—who seems to have no reason to make Larry Summers look dumb in such a timely fashion—drew his conclusion from a careful study of the index fingers of successful male and female researchers...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Michael M. Grynbaum, and FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly: This Week in Buzz | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...signal to the spinal cord and brain. The immediate result, usually processed in the spinal cord: you pull your hand away from the stove, you shift your weight off the broken bone, you sit down. All pain signals ultimately land in the brain, where they trigger thought ("That was dumb!"), emotions (tears, sobs), memories and a complex array of biochemical events aimed at protecting your body from further harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right (and Wrong) Way to Treat Pain | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...nowadays), but let’s look at Mr. Charles’s wins a little more fairly. The duet with Norah Jones? Contrived, yes, but worse duets of its nature have been conceived—touching or not, I still think Natalie Cole and Father was a dumb idea. At least Jones and Charles are interesting as a pairing, since they’re both pianists, they both straddle the line between jazz, blues, and rock sensibilities, and they both have proven that they’re willing to defy conventions, albeit to vastly different degrees...

Author: By Drew C. Ashwood and Christopher A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Grammys Love Company of Dead Artists | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...nowadays), but let’s look at Mr. Charles’s wins a little more fairly. The duet with Norah Jones? Contrived, yes, but worse duets of its nature have been conceived—touching or not, I still think Natalie Cole and Father was a dumb idea. At least Jones and Charles are interesting as a pairing, since they’re both pianists, they both straddle the line between jazz, blues, and rock sensibilities, and they both have proven that they’re willing to defy conventions, albeit to vastly different degrees...

Author: By Drew C. Ashwood and Chris A. Kukstis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Grammys Love Company of Dead Artists | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

Green Day singer-guitarist, Billie Joe Armstrong, once proclaimed in song, "I'm a smart-ass, but I'm playing dumb," and for many years his performance was seamless. Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool met in their late teens and displayed natural gifts for propulsive, funny, disposable punk-pop songs about masturbation and alienation. In 1994 Dookie, their first major-label album, sold 10 million copies. Multimillionaires at 22, the members of Green Day settled into a routine of churning out blink-and-they're-over records followed closely by triumphant world tours. They were not quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Party | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

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