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When MIT professor and meteorologist Edward Lorenz realized in 1961 that long-term weather-forecasting was all but impossible, the discovery chagrined weathermen. But his underlying idea--that even the most minute aberrations could have vast repercussions on larger systems--gave birth to the modern field of chaos theory. He captured the public's imagination with the elegant concept in a 1972 paper titled "Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" Though Lorenz initially used a seagull as his example, he settled on the more poetic creature, giving rise...
...Washington State (a part of the country Meyer had never visited when she wrote Twilight). Bella feels like an outsider at her new high school, but she is immediately drawn to a strange, otherworldly, ridiculously good-looking group of siblings called the Cullens, particularly to 17-year-old Edward...
Noah M. Silver '10, who is also a Crimson associate editorial chair, won the second-place prize of $1000 for his collection entitled, "Figbash and the Wild Things: The Illustrations of Edward St. John Gorey and Maurice Sendak...
...third grade, I was reading these books illustrated by Edward Gorey with these weird—but at the same time intriguing—macabre illustrations of supernatural things in pen-and-ink and some color," he said. "I really enjoyed the books, and as a by-product of that I started getting more interested in the illustrations...
...from HBO’s Real Sports series showing Irvine plying his craft. When it finished, Irvine took the stage and began recounting his career in the business of gambling. Irvine, an MIT graduate who later earned a masters degree from Cornell and an MBA from Purdue, told how Edward Thorp’s book, “Beat the Dealer,” started the card-counting movement back in the 1970s, about the $55,000 he won at Trump Plaza in Las Vegas the first weekend he played with the MIT blackjack team in 1993, and about...