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...looking at it. Another is to observe that while changes in risk appetite may not be predictable, they do follow a certain logic. "We view financial risk much like popcorn popping in a microwave," Merrill Lynch investment strategist Richard Bernstein wrote in January. "Until the first kernel pops, one tends to believe that nothing is happening. The initial pop seems like a random event until a second occurs. A third. A fourth. Then the popping goes wild...
...looking at it. Another is to observe that while changes in risk appetite may not be predictable, they do follow a certain logic. "We view financial risk much like popcorn popping in a microwave," Merrill Lynch investment strategist Richard Bernstein wrote in January. "Until the first kernel pops, one tends to believe that nothing is happening. The initial pop seems like a random event until a second occurs. A third. A fourth. Then the popping goes wild...
...laboratory on the top floor, a few small pieces of plastic are grouped on the desk of Narayan Khandekar, the senior conservation scientist at Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation. They’re inconspicuous and easy to pass over, but these plastic cubes contain the kernel of a raging art-world debate.“If you look in,” he explains, “you can see there’s a piece of paper in there. On the surface of the paper—not on the surface, but on the surface...
Finally and most elusively, we are learning something about consciousness itself--the ghost in the neural machine that gives you the sense of being in the moment, peering out at the world from the control room behind your eyes. If we can identify that cognitive kernel, can we one day endow a machine with it? But by isolating such a thing, do we in some way annihilate...
...screenwriter Patrick Marber keep forcing us past disbelief and into the perverse pleasures of nastiness. If nothing else, their film is the perfect antidote to all those warm, forgiving schoolboy dramas we've endured through the years. This corn is not green; it is rotten down to the last kernel...