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THE USER ILLUSION: CUTTING CONSCIOUSNESS DOWN TO SIZE

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Value of a Vowel | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

How do we define the value conferred by a bit of information such as a single letter? Are we aware that we constantly discard gargantuan volumes of information without recognizing their worth? In The User Illusion, a didactic tome employing examples from physics to poker, Danish author Tor Norretranders addresses...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Value of a Vowel | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

It comes as no surprise that The User Illusion is also user-friendly. First published in 1991, the Danish version sold more than 100,000 copies, a number equivalent to 2% of the population of Denmark. Even so, Norretranders' book possesses a motive more noble than self-help and survival...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Value of a Vowel | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

Levitin's historical comparisons of contemporary Israel to ancient Sparta and Athens was especially remarkable, simply because they ring so true. Like the ancient Athenian democracy, Israel is an armed citizen-state that must remain continually wary of its neighbors. And while we sitting comfortably here in the West might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel Should Beware Algeria | 5/1/1998 | See Source »

This interpretation may be my own illusion, but I would bet that many other students have the same impressions. Though Harvard is a large place, and complete school familiarity is unfeasible, the cold shoulder is not always a result of somebody forgetting someone else's name or one person not...

Author: By Joseph E. Subotnik, | Title: Warm Up That Cold Shoulder | 4/21/1998 | See Source »

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