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...Received his PhD in Black Magic and Summonation from Penn State --Condemned to hell for sinning against nature --Committed bachelor --Loved his indentured devil servant...
Physicists at Harvard have discovered a “quantum-mechanical magic trick” by finding a way to stop a pulse of light in one part of space and make it reappear two tenths of a millimeter away, according to researchers at the University’s Hau Laboratory. Led by Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Lene V. Hau, the experiment involved firing lasers through two clouds of sodium atoms cooled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero. At such cold temperatures the atoms’ motions are virtually halted, and they begin to behave more...
...real magic trick is Hill's, and the transformation he works on his main character. Coyne begins the book as a cold, despicable misanthrope, but as we learn about the personal past that made him that way - he had an abusive father - we gain sympathy for him. Coyne changes, gaining humor in desperation, warming to the girlfriend he took for granted, and reconnecting with the music that he has all but abandoned. When confronted with real inhumanity, as opposed to his own affected coldness, Coyne softens unexpectedly, and his emotions wake up. We start to like him and sympathize with...
...feels like Fall Out Boy just isn’t trying. It’s unfortunate, since the record displays the same high-gloss, meat-and-potatoes instrumentalism of FOB’s other work. Guitarists Ryan Ross and Chad Gilbert still treat the palm mute like a magic trick, and vocalists Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz wield the same saccharine croon. Granted, the disc is stuffed with studio effects; I’d be shocked to learn that the drummer can keep time without a click track or that the vocalists can keep pitch without three producers and Auto...
...short, the album can be heard, but it can’t really be enjoyed—eventually, one realizes that “The Good, the Bad, & The Queen” is little more than a bad Massive Attack song. There’s some magic here, but only the most patient listeners might unlock...