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...SportsCenter” anchors Dan Patrick and Trey Wingo teach you the tricks of the trade behind directing, producing and acting in “SportsCenter” commercials. Students will watch prior commercials, write weekly response papers on current ESPN proposals and invent new ideas. Students must prepare their own commercial in small groups to present as a final project. Readings include Marshall McLuhan’s Media and the American Mind and Professor Patrick’s The Big Show. The Syracuse Orange will serve as a visiting professor from the Carrier Dome and will focus his lectures...
...other things that a whole new kind of machine is needed to study them. The new computers are coming to life. IBM models its newest ones--computers that act like cells and fix themselves wherever they break--after DNA. The quantity of information is so vast, we have to invent new numbers to measure it: not just terabytes (a trillion bits of genetic data) but petabytes (equivalent to half the contents of all the academic libraries in America), exabytes, yottabytes and zettabytes. All the words ever uttered by everyone who ever lived would amount to five exabytes. The speed...
Karl Pope has been searching for the perfect surfboard since he took to the waves in the mid-1950s. In 1964 he introduced the Travelboard, a three-piece model, with partner Tom Morey (who went on to invent the boogie board in 1971). Four years ago, Pope introduced the Bisect, a two-piece board that is even easier to transport; just pull it out of the trunk, snap it together, and head for the water. His latest innovation: the Bisect Hollow Carbon Stealth (as in Stealth fighter). It's pressure-molded out of a carbon-fiber composite...
...women remarry, but these remarriages have a notoriously high casualty rate, especially when children are brought into the mix. Remarriages with children at home are half again as likely to fail as those with no stepkids. This multiple-married and redivorced demographic means that many Americans are forced to invent new connections across unconventional family ties...
...Well, let's face the problems when we come to them. (Laughs). Can't you invent an even more difficult case? (Laughs)... We will (perform all our inspections) in a professional manner, that will try to avoid any insults or any humiliations...