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...This is the earliest dated example of the subject, and is especially significant since it comes with all of the objects interred inside,” Lippit explained. “These sort of sculptures were often hollowed out and filled with devotional objects. It generates karmic merit for the [person who commissioned it].” This sculpture is currently on view on the second floor of the Fogg Museum. According to Mowry, Sedgwick wanted to contribute something to the Harvard University museums that would strengthen the Chinese collection while complimenting existing holdings. Harvard already has renowned collections...
...powered by the Apache web server, free software developed and supported by an open community of programmers. Anyone has access to its source code and can suggest modifications, and it is then up to the team of developers at the Apache Software Foundation to decide whether these changes merit inclusion in official software releases. Sometimes people try to submit “junk code” and vandalize Apache, but such submissions rarely pass preliminary stages of review and certainly never affect any final product.Despite concerns about quality control, open-contribution projects such as arXiv, Apache, Linux, and Wikipedia have...
...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...