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Professor of Mathematics David Kazhdan and Professor of Astronomy Margaret J. Geller won $265,000 and $275,000, respectively, the MacArthur Foundation announced yesterday. Each year, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation gives awards--often called the "genius awards"--to scholars and artists who demonstrate talent and creativity in their fields...
...Nazi uniform and parade through the campus cafeteria. Jewish women are derided as "Jewish-American princesses." At Cornell and elsewhere, students wear T shirts reading SLAP-A-JAP! and BACK OFF BITCH, I'M A JAP-BUSTER! "Anti-Semitism masked as sexism is more socially acceptable," says Rabbi Laura Geller, director of the Hillel Jewish Center at the University of Southern California, "because, unfortunately, sexism is still an accepted form of bigotry...
...particular, some scientists speculate that cold dark matter caused galaxies to form into the kind of bubbles Geller and Huchra have found. The process supposedly got under way 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, when the universe began with the Big Bang and the energy from that explosion started to condense into matter. Since then, ordinary visible matter, by itself, has probably not had time to gather into enormous structures. But cold dark matter may have condensed first, and its gravitational force could have helped pull visible matter into bubbles and galaxies. In fact, recent computer simulations at Princeton...
...meantime, the CfA study will go on, and other mapping efforts are in the works. "Big as it is," Geller explains, "our survey area compared with the visible universe is like Rhode Island compared with the surface of the earth." The bubbles and walls could be isolated phenomena. But, notes Geller: "Every survey ever done has contained structures as big as the survey could contain." If that trend continues, then there are larger objects yet to be found, which will give theorists even worse headaches. "These surveys test in the most acute way our conceptions of how structure developed...
CREDIT: M.J. GELLER, J.P. HUCHRA, E. FALCO, R.K. MCMAHAN...