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...sounds like an airport spy thriller, except for the primers in quantum mechanics and cognitive psychology, plus some intellectually ambitious musings on sex (the book has lots of it), memory and the uses of history. Though Verhaeghen has been writing novels for more than a decade, fiction is not his primary solar system. He is a cognitive psychologist of some renown, newly relocated from Syracuse University to Atlanta's Georgia Tech. Most of his writings appear in such journals as Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, with enticing titles like "Aging and the Stroop Effect: A Meta-Analysis." He wrote Omega Minor...
...never knew. "I was doing a postdoc at Potsdam in 1995," he recalls, moments before leaving his Atlanta home for a psychology conference in California. "I took the train to Berlin and emerged at Mitte, the center of old East Berlin. I found myself alone on this huge square, except for a strange glow coming from a glass plate in the pavement. There was a small white underground chamber lined with empty bookshelves. On it was that famous [Heinrich] Heine quote, 'Where they burn books, they will end up burning people.' It was the monument to the 1933 book burnings...
...take a bus.In the final accounting, she flew over Madison twice and still missed Thanksgiving by six hours—even though she had left Boston on Wednesday.Now, there’s little that could have been done to cheer up Ariadne after such a trip—little except a group of friendly, folk-song-singing Swedes. But none of her three planes had any. And even if they had, I’m sure their singing would have run afoul of some federal aviation law.In fairness, I suppose that it’s possible for trains to have...
...Raena Davis became one of those hardy souls, packing a few belongings and driving from her childhood home in Miami to the temporary epicenter of presidential politics, Des Moines, Iowa. "I live in a pretty foul apartment," Davis, 22, says with a cheerful laugh. "I have no furniture except a mattress on the floor and an Ikea nightstand. I live out of my suitcases. I also have a coffee maker and cereal." She endures her Spartan digs, the hot weather, cold weather, countless stump speeches and 15-hour workdays as a staffer, all the while enthusiastically urging Iowans to vote...
...Economics and Psychology Departments will no longer allow joint concentrations with any department, starting with the Class of 2010. The History Department said it would not accept any joint concentrators, except those who wished to combine history and East Asian studies...