Word: everydayness
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...difficult to believe that we really can tell the distance that light has traveled when we perceive it. I don't believe in the Big Bang any more than I buy the parting of the Red Sea. The supposed noise from the Big Bang could just be noise from everyday creation and destruction occurring in the universe. Unfortunately, a lot of science and religion has evolved into fantasies that provide grandiose explanations for questions that might never be answered...
...Since about 85% of biennials are government-initiated, there's often a strong community aspect to these events. Instead of disappearing after the opening party, artists often stay on to give workshops and talks, and regional themes predominate at many showings. Locally sponsored events like to take advantage of everyday venues. At Singapore's inaugural biennial, launched earlier this month, some of the paintings and installations are displayed in an Armenian church and a Hindu temple. About one-third of the world's major biennials take place in the Asia-Pacific area. While Singapore's biennial closes...
...students trying to slip through the cracks of the Core. And beware the notoriously irrelevant lecturing of McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven Ozment, who leads B-18, “The Protestant Reformation.”If major historical events interest you less than the everyday lives of dull, dead people, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America” receives consistently high marks. And if that’s not enough of a specific year for you, there’s another...
...stunning upset. Kerr said that the team’s goal was to “use the energy that the event brings—that the crowd brings. It’s an awesome opportunity because you don’t get to play a top team everyday.” The focus on Saturday will not just be on the game between the two varsity squads, however. First, the Harvard athletics department will be celebrating 100 years of men’s soccer at the university. In addition, alumni of both schools will face...
...Everyday before Kenneth P. Ambrose heads to work, he visits the cemetery where his two sons are buried. Next to his son who died in 1998 from pulmonary blood clots rests his other son, Paul W. Ambrose, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 that was hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001. Along with nine other Harvard University alumni, Ambrose, a 2000 graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), lost his life in the terrorist attacks. Five years later, Ambrose’s parents and loved ones of the other Harvard victims commemorated those killed. But they said just...