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...Independent Spirit Awards was five minutes of wondrously ribald thank-yous and genial insults - and Jerry Lewis, the legendary, infamous clown, now 82, who would receive an honorary award. Would the long-ago star-director of imaginative, raucous comedies prance out and shout "Mel-vin!"? Would he, bearing in mind how he's been scorned by mainstream U.S. critics but revered in the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, give his acceptance speech entirely in French? Would he lecture the Academy because it cited him for his humanitarian efforts and not his comic genius...
...place like Harvard, where the pressure to perform can seem overpowering, it is easy to feel alone. Every day, we, like millions of other college students around the country, encounter challenges to our sense of self esteem and peace of mind, and we must find ways to overcome these obstacles. Psychological research consistently tells us that one of the best ways to work through such difficulties is to share them—to talk it over with a friend or counselor or to simply ask for help when we feel overwhelmed...
...past, when I have asked advisees what they want to be sure gets into the jar, or what they will use as a marker of success, they have thought hard. Some responses come to mind: I want to feel like I fit in personally and have one or two really good friends; I want to make strong progress in identifying a concentration; I want to interview my grandmother, whose health is failing, in order to begin to write a memoir. These responses have given the students a personal compass and a chance to look back...
...Portnuff has documented that listening to earbuds, or in-ear headphones, for 90 minutes a day at 80% volume is probably safe for long-term hearing - a useful cutoff point to keep in mind. (But softer is better: you can safely tune in at 70% volume for about 4½ hours a day.) The risk of permanent hearing loss, Portnuff says, can increase with just five minutes of exposure a day to music at full volume. Over time, the noise can damage the delicate hair cells in the inner ear that transform sound waves to the electrical signals that...
...molecular and cellular biology professors at Harvard, are mapping neurons with a pioneering method, dubbed “brainbow” for its psychedelic appearance. Already, the technique—recently honored with a Nobel Prize in chemistry—is shedding light on the development of the human mind, and how disorders such as Alzheimer’s and even anxiety alter the brain.“To get an idea of how the wiring of the brain changes, we have to figure out how things are wired,” Lichtman says. “Brainbow gives...