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What is the “little nameless object” that the Newsome family manufactures in the fictional town of Woollett, Mass.? Joshua L. Glenn, who writes for The Boston Globe, says the answer is toothpicks...
...allow graduates to defer job offers for two years in order to teach with TFA. But few follow through with their business aspirations. “It’s a very small portion of our actual alumni who are in business, around four percent,” says Joshua Z. Biber, TFA’s Boston director for new site development. Biber reports that before joining TFA, ten percent of corps members considered teaching after college. But two-thirds of corps members continue teaching following their two years in TFA, with one-third of alumni working in low-income...
...listener with its sultry samples, hits a peak, then comes to a shuddering halt. Along the way, Jay-Z taunts, jokes, recollects, and even spits some thought-provoking shit. Most importantly, however, Jay proves that you still can’t knock the hustle. —Reviewer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...
...order to make writing more accessible, Pinker suggested using concrete, plodding diction. “Something to improve upon in my own writing is definitely the clarity— don’t assume that the reader is on the same terms,” said Joshua E. Martin ’11, who attended the talk. Pinker was introduced by Interim Director of Expository Writing Thomas R. Jehn, who explained to the audience how Expository Writing has “changed my life.” Jehn met his wife after using her freshman Expos essay as a model...
...brain in new ways. The technique, detailed in this week’s issue of Nature, activates fluorescent proteins in neurons. The colors then combine to produce an array of more than 100 different shades. The new approach was discovered by a team led by Jeff W. Lichtman and Joshua R. Sanes, both professors in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology who teach MCB 80, “Neurobiology of Behavior,” in the spring. “Brainbow provides a way of seeing many neurons at the same time in the same place...