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Two weeks before Election Day, Barack Obama's campaign was mobilizing millions of supporters; it was a bit late to start rewriting get-out-the-vote (GOTV) scripts. "BUT, BUT, BUT," deputy field director Mike Moffo wrote to Obama's GOTV operatives nationwide, "What if I told you a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Using the Science of Change | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Neoclassical economics - another University of Chicago specialty - has ruled our world for decades. It's the doctrine that markets know best: when government keeps its hands off free enterprise, capital migrates to its most productive uses and society prospers. But its elegant models rely on a bold assumption: rational decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Is Using the Science of Change | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Speaking of change, I recommend Michael Grunwald's fascinating and exclusive story about how the President and his team are using behavioral science to facilitate change in America. Their strategy is based on the idea that social science can guide people to make better and healthier choices for themselves, whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Cycle | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

“I think the easiest description—or category to put us in—would be a jazz group,” says The Bad Plus drummer, David King. “But a more accurate description, if you really wanted to get pompous, is that...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bad Plus Adds Diverse Musical Elements to Jazz | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Two Harvard students were among only ten budding scientists nationwide this year to earn a much-coveted graduate fellowship granted by the Hertz Foundation. Each of the ten students was awarded $250,000, “no strings attached,” to pursue graduate studies in engineering and the...

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Students Win Hertz Foundation Grant to Fund Graduate Studies In Physics | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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