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...assume, intelligent. Communists. And yet well off. RR: Doesn’t every comedian talk about how depressing their life is? TS: Yes, but my life has been wonderful. That’s how different I am. I am not the typical comedian. I suffer from high self-esteem. RR: You worked in an ice cream store and you suffered from high self-esteem.TS: Yes, because I thought it was great when I was working at this poor man’s Dairy Queen. RR: How can Harvard students boost their self-esteem? TS: I’m not sure what...
...these self-regulating mechanisms, plus an additional financial disincentive for scientific delinquents: Authors have to pay to publish.We do not claim that online communities should replace more institutionalized peer-review processes in a comprehensive manner. Prestigious journals such as Science or Nature give groundbreaking scientific results the esteem they deserve. But by and large, anxieties about open-publication online journals are unfounded. Even Nature allowed the public to judge papers submitted last summer in tandem with traditional peer-review. Initiatives such as PLoS ONE will help promote free and unfettered scientific study, supplementing and revolutionizing an oligarchic academic process...
...Historically, Tannat has not been held in great esteem. Its extremely high tannin levels (from which it gets its name) mean that it can usually be drunk only after extensive aging or mixing with other, softer varietals. But Tannat grapes grow easily on Uruguay's small hills and nutrient-rich plains, and that has encouraged the country's winemakers to find ways of reducing Tannat's harshness besides leaving it in the barrel for years. Such a development would allow them to get their wines to market quicker...
Although generally held in high esteem, Schama—former Mellon professor of the social sciences and Kenan professor of the humanities at Harvard until 1993—has intermittently come under fire for some of his more esoteric projects. The fallout from his bizarre 1991 speculative murder history, “Dead Certainties,” may have kept some readers away from his 1995 interdisciplinary masterpiece, “Landscape and Memory...
...originally grown in southwestern France, and brought to Uruguay in 1870. If you're a winemaker, having a little-known but delicious varietal up your sleeve is no bad thing, given the constant pressure to satisfy consumers' ever more fickle palates. Historically, Tannat has not been held in great esteem. Its extremely high tannin levels (from which it gets its name) mean that it can usually be drunk only after extensive aging or mixing with other, softer varietals. But Tannat grapes grow easily on Uruguay's small hills and nutrient-rich plains, and that has encouraged the country's winemakers...