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Message to cheaters everywhere: do your homework. When the answer key to a difficult problem set was inadvertently picked up by one of the students in Biology 22, "Evolutionary Stable Strategy" (ESS), Head TF William Piel proceeded to give students a run for their money...
...Instead of simply passing out a new problem set, Piel decided to use game theory, one of the primary topics studied in ESS, in order to subtly frighten students who might have felt tempted to glance at the lifted answer key. In a biological context, game theory is used to predict the optimal behavior or adaptive strategies of animals in a competitive environment while also having to account for the probability of alternative strategies in the neighboring environment. Piel wrote a creative game theory word problem that would apply to the classroom situation and e-mailed the problem to every...
With nearly half of the senior class going through the recruiting process each year, making a good impression in the interview is crucial to a successful job search. But interviewing isn't just about case questions and prepared answers--image and etiquette are equally key to landing that offer...
...stealth can be seen as a liability. Submarine advocates praise this "presence through uncertainty," likening the boats to monsters in the dark, terrifying even if they're not really there. But such stealthiness poses a tactical quandary. It requires absolute radio silence, whereas in today's U.S. military all key forces are bound together by waves of always-flowing electronic data. A U.S. submarine plugged into such "network-centric" warfare would forfeit some of its vital silence, potentially betraying its position to the enemy...
SCARY SPICE Dentists say tongue piercing is bad. Wait til the A.M.A. releases its singing-off-key study...