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...telescope sits on the lawn outside Vachon Pavilion at Quebec's Laval University, its gently concave 40-in.-diameter mirror pointing at the sky. Concentrating and reflecting faint starlight into a camera mounted above it, the gleaming face of the mirror seems devoid of the slightest imperfection; it is so smooth, in fact, that it looks solid...
...that is an illusion. The mirror is really a pool of liquid mercury in a shallow wood container. A touch would send ripples racing across its surface, and it must always aim straight up to retain its curvature. As the container is slowly rotated on a turntable; making one revolution every six seconds, the mercury rises gently toward the edges and dips in the middle, the way coffee does when it is stirred in a cup. In perfect deference to the laws of physics, the metal's highly reflective surface takes the form of a parabola, the shape of solid...
...TIME: You're certainly facing a prejudice in the press here - one columnist from the [pro-Labour tabloid Daily] Mirror often refers to you as "The Toff" [a British pejorative term for the elite social class...
...Lebanon, politics are rarely just local, but often mirror the tensions and influences of the broader Middle East. Supporters of the Lebanese government charge that Hizballah is an agent of Iran and Syria, pursuing a dangerous anti-Israel agenda at Lebanon's expense...
Whether insights into the mind's hall of mirrors will actually lead to a better understanding of autism is another question, of course, and it's only one of many that remain unanswered. But as a number of researchers see it, this is a strength rather than a weakness. For the mirror-neuron system has provided neuroscientists with a powerful new probe into the biological roots of the human psyche and prompted them to take a fresh look at old questions. Indeed, says Parma's Gallese, that's what makes the research so exciting--it's still in an early...