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...Nobel ceremony, which celebrates scientific projects that “cannot or should not be reproduced,” said master of ceremonies Marc Abrahams, who edits the Cambridge-based Annals of Improbable Research. The 10 achievements honored this year ranged from Karaoke to comb-overs patents to invisible gorilla suits...
...Nobel award for psychology went to Daniel Simons, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Harvard’s own Christopher Chabris. Their study, “Gorillas in Our Midst”—performed at Harvard—showed that people who selectively focused on one thing often overlooked normally conspicuous surroundings, including men in gorilla suits...
...live in a divided nation. Thus there are two schools of thought on Joey, the 800-lb. gorilla of new TV shows (NBC, Thursdays, 8 p.m. E.T.), starting Sept. 9. Friends was lame, ergo Joey will be lame. Friends was genius, and ... perhaps we need to give Joey a chance. After the failure of every one of the Seinfeld-alum shows, few think Matt LeBlanc's much-hyped solo sitcom is a guaranteed success. In the first episode the still none-too-bright Joey moves to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career. He moves in with his sister (Drea...
...Prymate, the most hated play of the Broadway season, let's be charitable. An admittedly odd drama about a pair of scientific researchers fighting over a gorilla who has been taught to speak in sign language, it did just about everything it could to offend everyone (casting a black man, Andre DeShields, as the ape; staging an interspecies sex scene that ranks as one of the bad taste highlights of the new millennium). And, predictably, the critics hooted it out of town. But Mark Medoff?s play had some ideas, it packed a lot into its speedy 100 minutes...
...will the nature of the challenge the world faces. Although scientists have done a lot of thinking about global warming, they are just beginning to grapple with the problem of how global warming and solar dimming interact. As Ramanathan puts it, "It's like we have a new gorilla sitting down at the table"--and it could turn out to be a very big gorilla indeed. --By J. Madeleine Nash