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Some pointed to troubles in the mortgage business, others to disappointing manufacturing data, yet others to that Greenspan speech. "Our minds are ... capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability," writes derivatives trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his soon-to...
Islamic artists in the 15th century used complex mathematical techniques that were unknown to Western scholars until the 1970s, a new study co-authored by a Harvard graduate student revealed. According to Harvard doctoral candidate Peter J. Lu and Princeton University Professor Paul J. Steinhardt, the authors of the study...
For those who follow Iraq from afar, the daily stories of sectarian slaughter are perplexing. Why are the Shi'ites and Sunnis fighting? Why now? There are several explanations for the timing of the outbreak of hostilities, each tied to a particular interpretation of how events unfolded after the fall...
They were presidents of big universities and small colleges; leaders of British schools and American research institutions; sons and daughters of Harvard and people who never studied in Widener Library. And yet, these very different provosts, presidents, and prize-winners all had one thing in common: they did not want...
Romantic comedy does not require elaborate explanations of human behavior; the genre needs only to provide an efficient resolution of some silly situation that none of the characters - if only they thought it through for a minute or rationally talked it over - should be in. It is nice, of course...