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...brain, and the mind it creates, is designed to seek out patterns in the environment, to interpret those patterns in a meaningful way and to look for causal mechanisms that can explain those patterns. In general, that leads to natural models of the world, but it can also lead you to a supernatural view, which is simply any explanation that goes beyond what we currently understand as the natural boundaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're Superstitious | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...bats in check, the Crimson began to show life in the fifth inning. Junior first baseman Dan Zailskas opened the frame with a base hit, followed by O’Neill and senior second baseman Taylor Meehan loading the bases with singles.With the sacks filled and no outs, Harvard looked to cut into the 6-0 deficit, but an untimely double play halted the rally. Although the Crimson plated Zailskas, it would earn only one more run in the contest, courtesy of Stack-Babich’s longball.“We definitely should have put up a lot more...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Second Inning Woes Doom Crimson Against Bryant | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...with this weekend’s double-header against Princeton (9-8, 1-2 Ivy) and Penn (9-9, 0-3 Ivy). Following last weekend’s narrow defeat at the hands of Ivy League leaders and No. 57 Columbia, Harvard has zero margin for error as it looks to retain its highly-sought crown. “These [teams] are traditionally really strong rivals,” said Crimson coach David Fish ’72. “For many years, we’ve faced off against Princeton for the league title, and other years we?...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tennis Hopes To Rebound Today | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...Frac now has 400 employees across Spain. Its commercial director, Juan Carlos Granda, says it has a 63% success rate. And with the percentage of people who default on loans skyrocketing in Spain - it reached 3.8% in January, compared with 0.95% the year before - the number of creditors who look to its services is growing. "Thanks to the [financial] crisis, we've seen about a 20% increase in business in the past year," Granda says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Costumed Debt Collectors: Final Notice? | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...have to fix the monumental inequalities that the apartheid government had created, it had to do so using the instruments of state power - government, law, the police - which it had spent years fighting. One way in which this identity crisis is expressed is in the modern ANC look - the mix of bling and camo worn by the Prada proletariat on display in East London. At a more serious level, while business, civil society and the press provide far more of a check on South Africa's government than they do in, say, Zimbabwe, the party's critics see the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why South Africa's Over the Rainbow | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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