Word: experimention
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None of this is new, of course--Elvis claimed he wanted to be your teddy bear too. Teen idols have always served as erotic learner's permits, from those who went on to transcend the role like Frank Sinatra, James Dean, the Beatles and John Travolta, to more disposable incarnations...
Last week all that changed. In a paper published in the journal Nature, psychologist Martha McClintock of the University of Chicago reported what may be the best evidence yet of human pheromones. In an elegantly straightforward experiment, she was able to speed up and slow down the monthly cycles of...
When those portentous white envelopes slide underneath the doors of anxious first-years tomorrow morning, the randomization experiment will be nearly complete. The Class of 1999 was the guinea pig of the historic change in housing policy that has served to eliminate the peculiar characters of the residential houses; after...
After the Class of '98 graduates, some of us will remember when the Houses had character, but none who lived with it intact will remain at the College; only members of the Class of '99 will remember that randomization began as an experiment. For incoming classes, randomized housing will be...
Randomization is a complex experiment, and as with all experiments, we need to check the results. Dean Lewis must perform a complete re-evaluation of randomization next year as promised, taking community input into consideration.