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...empires under Elizabeth I and Victoria, and dared to hope that she might be an omen of a great future ... 'It may well be,' wrote a thoughtful London editorialist, 'that we here in Britain, by accident rather than design, have stumbled back to the original, the true and abiding function of monarchy, which lay in the magical power of kings ... to represent, express and effect the aspirations of the collective subconscious.'" Read more at timearchive.com...
...bicycles may be able to reunite me with my lost hobby. Considered toys or flimsy oddities just a decade ago, the latest generation of collapsibles--bikes that, thanks to a few strategic hinges and latches, can pretzel themselves down to the size of a suitcase--combines hipness and high function, not to mention the ability to fit easily into a closet. "I won't ride a standard bike anymore," says Channell Wasson of Foldabikes.com who has been selling folders for more than 15 years, and riding them even longer. "We call them cumbersomes...
...player can be used as a ringback,” Tanjeloff said in an interview last night. “What we’re trying to do is create a phone service that is user-friendly and that people will enjoy using, something that has a function and purpose.” And starting next Wednesday, “Brring!” will offer users the option of donating their accrued earnings to the non-profit “Aid Darfur” campaign. The company will also play messages from the campaign in place of some advertisments...
...Chen skillfully avoids a “Brady Bunch” arrangement of faces peering at each other by manipulating his grid. His geometric arrangement is asymmetrical and unique because of the altered dimensions. The subjects of each photo do not gaze at each other or show interaction; they function alone. Abandoning the traditional self-portrait and capitalizing on the repetition of keeping ethnicity and glasses as constants, Chen questions identity and sameness in a focused, non-didactic way. Finally, Sabrina Chou ’09 questions conventional ideas about the nature of human interaction in her work...
...program. The appearance came just two months after Colbert journeyed to Cambridge himself to record segments for his show at the Institute of Politics. In last night’s segment, entitled “Pinker and the Brain,” Colbert and Pinker discussed basic brain function and human nature. Colbert introduced Pinker by saying that because Pinker is a Harvard professor, he “probably thinks I think he’s a pompous know-it-all.” Colbert asked Pinker to summarize the brain in five words or less, to which he responded...