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...specialty is ancient science, where he studies medicine and mechanics??areas that tend to escape the purview of classics professors...
...says Cloos.Although she started riding when she was seven, her interest in horses remained latent throughout boarding school and most of college. One day during her undergraduate years, the opportunity to ride again came when she confessed her love for horses—and not classical mechanics??to her undergraduate adviser, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi ’67.“That was definitely a surprise,” says Georgi, who is also the master of Leverett House. “Nobody grows up wanting to be a blacksmith, except sons and daughters...
...Whimsical” is a term not often applied to physics. From the lay perspective—or at least from those exposed only to Newtonian mechanics??the connotations of such a word seem diametrically opposite to the content of the field. Yet “Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions,” by Professor of Physics Lisa Randall ’83, adds a whole new dimension to physics—figuratively and literally. This informal textbook argues that the universe has more than the traditionally recognized four...
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