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...Seriously now, do get two new books on the artist: Bob Dylan : The Essential Interviews, a collection of 40 edge conversations edited by Jonathan Cott, and Michael Gray's The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, which has all you need to know, and more, about the little...
...amount to $10,000, to pay for a year off after medical school, when he plans to do public health work in developing countries. Michael G. Sullivan ’03, Vaz’s roommate for all four years at Harvard, said that Vaz was always a walking encyclopedia of knowledge. According to Sullivan, Vaz told him about the year his high school quiz bowl team won the state championships. Sullivan said that Vaz was the only member on his team who answered any questions. “It was the only time in Texas quiz bowl history that...
...looks at architecture “in the context of its own time—how it relates to culture, the sciences, and literary art,” she said. And currently, this “context” includes religion. Payne is the general editor for an upcoming encyclopedia on world religious architecture. The volume will look at architecture in relation to the history of religion, history of rituals, and objects, which are often used for inspiration. Objects, she said, “while not architecture in themselves, can be seen as a bridge to architecture...
...Authority of Wikipedia” last night. “In order to have authority at Wiki[pedia] you must be willing to negotiate what you consider to be the truth,” said Weinberger, who is also an author and a blogger. Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that is written and edited by the public. The site—www.wikipedia.org—is known for constant updates made to its entries. A day before University President Lawrence H. Summers officially stepped down, the site’s article on Summers read “He will...
...obvious one is--say it with me--the Internet. The other one, the surprising one, is a curious phenomenon you could call intellectual altruism. It turns out that given the opportunity, people will donate their time and brainpower to make the world better. There's an online encyclopedia called Wikipedia written entirely by anonymous experts donating their expertise. It has the unevenness you'd expect from anything that's user-created and user-edited, but it's still the most useful reference resource anywhere on- or off-line; earlier this month Wikipedia posted its 1 millionth article...