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...abstract. Everett, who also placed second, collaborated with knee-injury specialists to improve testing for tendon graft orientation in injured knees. His device, which automates the testing process and makes it more dependable, is “about the most finished project I’ve seen in the fifteen years I’ve been working with this class,” Howe said. Parker said that these projects are “right[s] of passage to being a professional engineer. As a professional engineer it’s what you do—you solve problems...
...timely expose in the October 19th issue of Fifteen Minutes took us one tick closer to solving the mystery of the giant old green clock in Harvard Square outside Bank of America. The timepiece was inexplicably stuck—seemingly permanently—at 12:16. Now FM returns with a hard-hitting follow-up investigation. The clock, of which neither Bank of America nor Cambridge nor Harvard will claim ownership, now reads 10:15. What is the significance of the clock’s nine-hour and fifty-nine minute great leap forward to the future? Or rather...
...leadership structure strives for separation between news and opinion, as well. I chair the news board, and report to our managing editor, as do the chairs of Arts, Sports, and Fifteen Minutes. The managing editor reports to the president. In contrast, however, the chairs of the editorial board report directly to the president. Except for the daily proofer who proofreads the editorial page and checks it for libel the night before publication, the news board has no involvement whatsoever in the production of The Crimson’s editorial positions...
...problem. But in “Imagining Numbers,” his 2002 book, he hopes to explain such mind-bogglers to scholars outside the TI-83 set. Mazur’s book, with the parenthetical subtitle “Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen,” started as a letter explaining imaginary numbers to Michel Chaouli, a professor of German and comparative literature at Indiana University. Chaouli praised Mazur extensively in an e-mail, calling him “the most remarkable thinker I have ever met.” Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies...
...photographs were a long time coming. Shortly after Alejos’ death, a fifteen-year conflict erupted in Ayocucho between the Shining Path Maoist guerrilla insurgency and the Peruvian armed forces. After the conflict ended in 1995, Alejos’ family went back to his studio and found 100,000 glass plate negatives, 60,000 still intact. From this archive Lucia, Peruvian photographer and Alejos’ granddaughter, has begun to print the photographs in the exhibit, the most comprehensive remaining visual record of mid-century Ayacucho...