Word: inertia
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Waking up is hazardous The morning haze you experience when the alarm clock goes off is known as sleep inertia, and it clouds your brain more than sleep deprivation. The impairment is most severe in the first 10 minutes but can linger for up to two hours...
...which should work immediately to authorize large swaths of courses for Core credit for this spring term. Most upper-level courses are difficult enough that they will not require a high level of scrutiny. The only excuse for not authorizing scores of new courses is surmountable institutional inertia...
Such is one sign of a successful university: its institutional inertia has developed so completely that even its leader is utterly incapable of stopping its usual routine. If the Blizzard of 1978 is any indication, Harvard can essentially operate without any overarching guidance or direction. But merely allowing a university to trudge forward under its own power endangers the university’s long-term aims; mere repetition of the daily slog does not constitute a march forward...
...loss slides a team down, a quality win bumps a team up. Therefore, a stinky squad that had the good fortune to be ranked in the preseason lingers in the Top 25 for far too long, while an unheralded dynamo is forced to wait weeks to crack the list.This inertia mainly plagues the national rankings, but many of the same problems attend to conference polls. In the Ivy League above all, where there is no possibility of qualifying for the playoffs, where the only relevant title is the Ancient Eight crown, and strength of schedule and margin of victory...
...intelligence,” Oppenheimer said. “So thank you.” Between live “moments of science” demonstrations, a “Win-A-Date-With-a-Nobel-Laureate” contest, and a new mini-opera entitled “Inertia Makes the World Go Round,” the ceremony found time to recognize past Ig Nobel celebrities. 2003 winner C.W. Moeliker, who documented the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, was on hand along with Lisa R. Danielson and William L. Sefanov who were...