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...That would fit into what's known as the Milankovitch theory of ice-age cycles, which posits that the Earth's orbit around the sun and the planet's axial tilt wobble periodically, increasing or decreasing the amount of solar radiation hitting the planet's surface. "The sea-level high may be considered an exception to the 100,000-year cycle, in which high summer sunlight caused the ice sheets to melt," writes R. Lawrence Edwards, a geologist at the University of Minnesota, in a commentary on the Science paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glaciers: Changing at More Than a Glacial Pace | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...kind of remember those things. It was your first world record, you had a crush on a boy then, and you’re in a foreign country. You’re still in like ninth grade or middle school or something or a freshman in high school, and you just remember...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Dara G. Torres | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...heavy snow and high winds that we’ve predicted, it would have been really bad,” he added...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diesel Spills Into Charles River | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...according to Schauf, that constitutes the Law Review’s perennial challenge—selecting “really high-quality articles and putting out great legal scholarship...

Author: By Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Schauf Chosen To Lead Law Review | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...listener to the lectures ever get this impression. For one thing, including Fanon and Beauvoir clearly demonstrates that Social Studies takes the study of gender, race, and imperialism as seriously as it takes all other important topics. More to the point, Social Studies is quite explicitly taught at a high level of abstraction because the purpose is to show how social theories are applicable to all kinds of social phenomena. The theories are not straightforwardly linked to the gender, class, or ethnicity of their creators. For example, when reading Marx, students learn about how ideologies sometimes take the form...

Author: By Alex Gourevitch | Title: LETTER | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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