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In 2000, Professor of Astronomy Lars E. Hernquist developed and launched Cosmic Connections for a small crowd of 57. He designed the course as an introductory astronomy class for students with little background in the field.
Thirteen Harvard faculty joined another elite institution on Saturday, when they were inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and joined the ranks of Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, and Toni Morrison. At the ceremony in Sanders Theater, the two-century-old organization honored 203 scientists, historians, artists, policy...
"I don't become characters," says Gosling. "They're all me." His latest screen self is a Midwestern recluse named Lars who orders a sex doll on the Internet and suffers from a delusion that the doll is his real girlfriend. On the advice of a therapist (Patricia Clarkson), Lars...
Gosling thrives by flouting most Hollywood conventions. In a town that sorts its talent into neat categories--angry young man, cocky hero, quirky romantic lead--he has hopped around among all three. "It's unusual that an actor would have not only the aspiration but also the talent to move...
There's a scene in Lars and the Real Girl in which Lars' brother (Paul Schneider) confronts Lars about his delusion, telling him that Bianca is not a real person but a big plastic thing. Lars can't or won't hear him. For the audience his disbelief is a...