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...authors of the study - psychologists Carey Morewedge of Carnegie Mellon University and Michael Norton of Harvard - offer a few theories. For one, dreams often feature familiar people and locations, which means we are less willing to dismiss them outright. Also, because we can't trace the content of dreams to an external source - because that content seems to arise spontaneously and from within - we can't explain it the way we can explain random thoughts that occur to us during waking hours. If you find yourself sitting at your desk and thinking about a bomb exploding in your office...
...season, losing only one meet to the reigning three-time Ivy League champion Princeton Tigers (7-0, 7-0). When Harvard faced the Tigers earlier this month, Princeton escaped by a narrow 22-point margin, and this weekend the Crimson is looking for revenge. Harvard is in an eerily familiar position heading into the weekend’s meet. Last year’s squad was also 6-1 in dual meets and also faced Princeton as its top competition. The Crimson barely fell to the Tigers in 2008, amassing 1494 points to Princeton’s 1651.5. The Tigers...
...Obama announced his selection of Devaney, currently inspector general at the Department of the Interior, as chairman of the new Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board. Devaney will work with Vice President Joe Biden to monitor for wasteful spending and issue periodic reports to the public. It's a familiar watchdog role for the long-time government servant. During his tenure at Interior, Devaney uncovered the shady dealings of disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, an investigation that eventually led to Abramoff's imprisonment and the resignation of Interior's no. 2, J. Steven Griles, for lying under oath about...
...don’t like being lost. I’m too nervous and too timid to appreciate the thrill of disorientation. When I returned to campus as a sophomore last fall, I reveled in the comfort of the familiar. I knew with confidence where each new step would take me, and when bewildered freshmen approached me for help, maps clutched to their chests, I gave them indulgent smiles and pointed them in the right direction. With amiable condescension, I’d watch them scuttle off to their next ice cream social in Ticknor, and feel relieved?...
...Harvard’s Task Force on General Education declared in its report in 2007 that “the aim of a liberal arts education is to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to disorient young people and to help them find ways to reorient themselves.” In and outside of the classroom, Harvard students are encouraged to explore the unexplored, to excavate the unfamiliar, and to learn in our wanderings through terra incognita just how limitless our learning...