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...week after Nintendo's Wii debuted in November, the Wall Street Journal reported that the gaming console was leaving some users as sore as the gym often does. Unlike traditional hand-held video games, where users sit on the couch exercising little more than their thumbs, the Wii (pronounced "we" not "why") features digital sensors that let users virtually play the game. In Wii Sports, a game that comes with the console, users mimic the motions used in sports like bowling, tennis and baseball. In other words, the game may be virtual, but the physical exertion is very real...
...prank article in Princeton’s newspaper, a parody of a Christmas carol in a Tufts’ journal, and the cover of Dartmouth’s bi-weekly paper—all published within the past three months—have turned national media attention toward the issue of journalistic integrity and responsibility on college campuses.All three publications have since issued apologies after their publications caused an uproar among readers alleging racism, discrimination, and insensitivity.Today, “there is so much more scrutiny and exposure that what could be a small campus issue becomes a national...
Tymoczko's answer, which led last summer to the first paper on music theory ever published in the journal Science, is that the cosmos of chords consists of weird, multidimensional spaces, known as orbifolds, that turn back on themselves with a twist, like the Mbius strips math teachers love to trot out to prove to students that a two-dimensional figure can have only one side. Indeed, the simplest chords, which consist of just two notes, live on an actual Mbius strip. Three-note chords reside in spaces that look like prisms--except that opposing faces connect...
...year-old) and more time with Wiis and iPods. Kids' lives are also indisputably more scheduled now, partly because the baby boomlet has made lite college admissions tougher. But last year a team led by Joseph Mahoney of the Yale psychology department wrote a paper for the journal Social Policy Report showing that most of the scheduling is beneficial: kids' well-being tends to improve when they participate in extracurriculars. The paper notes that only 6% of adolescents spend more than 20 hours a week in organized activities. And there's no consistent evidence that even these enthusiasts...
...high-profile Republican candidates,” said Jeanne Shaheen, the institute’s director and a former New Hampshire governor who herself arrived as a resident fellow at Harvard after losing a Senate bid. The other fellows include Carl M. Cannon, a White House correspondent for National Journal, Chriss A. Winston, the former overseer of White House speechwriting, and James Baker of the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Security Division. Lamont, who said he attended events at the Institute of Politics as a Harvard undergraduate, said many of the highlights of his campaign came from...