Word: explained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comparatively low rating of faculty accessibility and social life confirmed the long-held stereotype that, despite Harvard’s reputation as the gold standard of education, the University in many ways fails to meet the needs of its undergraduate needs. Many administrators and House Masters contacted could not explain the source of the party ban. “We just inherited it...we came into a tradition,” Conley said. “I didn’t even know there was a campus-wide ban,” said Leverett House Master Howard Georgi...
...house this unusual and innovative required something like a daylong teach-in. Before construction began, Good, his clients and their contractor got a local lumberyard to play host to a lunch where they spoke to their subcontractors and suppliers. The aim was to explain what this project was all about and to subdue any concerns about things like the availability of green materials and whether water-based adhesives could be counted on to perform as well as the ones containing toxins. They also brought in a representative of the Oregon Department of Energy, which ended up working closely with...
...podcasting tool Listen to individual stories from the current episode: New Routes To Profit?Big airlines look to far-off locales for profit. Listen Hackers For HireBanks pay TraceSecurity and other companies to steal from them. Listen Web Boom 2.0.This bubble is different from the last one. We'll explain how. Listen Previous episodes...
...disciplines. At the very best, Cores tend to be structured as if “ways of approaching knowledge” are equivalent to “ways of gathering information,” providing us with valuable skills for delving deeper into a similar subject, but failing to explain how we should interpret what we find...
...Harvard researcher has unearthed new evidence in the quest to explain how life can thrive under extreme conditions. In a report published in last week’s issue of Science, Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Peter Girguis shed new light on the resiliency of the basic building blocks of life, by studying the behavior of worms that live in thermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. “These worms have been able to feed, reproduce, and live in a niche that no other animal has been able to,” Girguis said...