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...extraterrestrial life using a new optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. The telescope, which was dedicated in a ceremony Tuesday, is the largest optical telescope east of the Mississippi, and is the first of its kind to be devoted entirely to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), according to the Planetary Society. “It’s overwhelmingly likely—a certainty—that there’s other life in our galaxy,” Horowitz said yesterday. “There’s a pretty good likelihood that...
...long term plan for financing the social programming board—whether that will include continued reliance on gifts, a stake in the current termbill fee, or the building of a social programming endowment needs to be made clear. In the interim, the UC will have roughly $70,000 extra to spend that previously went toward CLC social programming. We are glad that House Comittee’s and student groups are bound to benefit from this boon. But so long as the long term funding of the social programming board remains unclear, the reliability of this additional funding should...
...latest diets call on the health conscious to cut out meat, carbohydrates, and sweets from their diet, but a new study suggests that for children, cutting down on television just might prevent packing on those extra pounds. The report, co-authored by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and published this month, revealed that increasing television-viewing results in increasing caloric intake in children. While the link between viewing television and obesity has been well documented in the past, studies have often hypothesized that weight gain from television-viewing comes from being sedentary and from the tendency...
Make a little extra dough through the Harvard Business School’s Computer Lab for Experimental Research. Just go to www.hbs.edu/cler, and you can rake in an average of $20-$25 per completed study, which will put a bit more heft in your pocket than the Psych Department’s Study Pool that only offers $5 for a 30-minute study. Plus, no creepy questions about your sex life. Sweet...
...position as a top contender coming into the heart of the crew season. Despite the heavyweights’ loss at No. 1 Princeton on Sunday, the two teams now boast a combined 8-1 mark for the season. “Everyone is going to be working extra hard to match our speed,” said lightweight captain Sarah Bates following her varsity eight’s Knecht Cup victory on Sunday, “So we have to work harder to stay on our toes and remain at the top.” Radcliffe’s lightweights...