Word: meritable
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...just as Byerly Hall culls the unworthy from the ranks of each year’s freshman class. I couldn’t agree more. The two are very similar—and both are deeply flawed. It is impossible for even the smartest scientists to recognize the true merit of a paper before it is published, just as it is impossible to identify the smartest and most talented scholars on the basis of their high school grades and SAT scores. Think, if you will, of PLoS One as a large public university—our doors are open...
However, Margaret Adachi’s “Rapture” is so bizarre as to cast doubt on its merit as art. The plush red cow reclining on a stool—udders erect and yarn pubic hair apparent—could easily have been imagined as part of some sort of senior prank...
Getting into Harvard is hard, very hard. Yearly the gatekeepers in Byerly Hall vet thousands of applicants on their merits, rejecting many times the number of students that they accept. But getting a scientific paper published in Science or Nature, today’s pre-eminent scientific journals, is oftentimes harder. Science, like much of academia, has its own admissions committee. Though over a million manuscripts are published in journals yearly, many more are submitted and rejected. The gatekeepers of science—peer reviewers who are reputable scientists and well versed in a particular field—advise journal...
...friend might be taking an extreme stance, but his opinion isn’t entirely without merit. When it comes to relationships, Harvard students are preoccupied with what’s in it for them. “I think everything in life is a cost-benefit analysis for Harvard students, especially relationships,” he said...
...from a three and a half minute slice of mid-90’s nostalgia rock to half-second moment of heavenly clarity. While at times it seems that the goal is to make the most shocking, rather than best-sounding, juxtaposition, there’s enough of merit going on here that it will take multiple listens to unravel. And even after all the samples are identified and analyzed, it’s still a great pop record.The Knife: “Silent Shout”Most famous for their hit “Heartbeats” (which...