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Before he established himself at the forefront of the study of Soviet economics, Bergson won acclaim for the “Bergson social welfare function,” according to Paul A. Samuelson, an MIT professor emeritus of economics and Nobel laureate who described Bergson as his “oldest and dearest friend at Harvard...
This is a crucial moment for reconsidering the role of arts, he says, and the still-young administration of University President Lawrence H. Summers could substantially change how the arts function at Harvard...
...traditional forms and more interested in hybrid forms, where music and dance and theater and visual arts collide in interesting ways. To have an environment in which all of these groups are isolated from one another would be unfortunate. I often talk about an ideal space that could function as a dance space, as a theater space, as a space for installations, as a soundstage. I once saw a production in Budapest a few years ago of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in which the audience was seated on 500 individually hung swings, and the hemp that...
...loading dock, where shipments of sugar were once brought into the factory by a rail link, Stubbins plans to build a “winter garden” surrounded in glass, that will fuse the building’s traditional brick outline with the aesthetic of its new function...
Indeed, the small number of scientists willing to publish negative results may be a function of self-interest. For example, the Journal of Universal Computer Science started a section for negative results in 1997. Since then, the journal has received no submissions on negative results, leading one editorial board member to quip that the only known negative result was the failure of the section itself. Owning up to a failed hypothesis is something few scientists would be willing to do unless their peers are doing so as well. After all, admitting to getting something wrong does little to help...