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Last October, Roll attended a guest lecture at the Barker Center delivered by Iván Almeida, then of the Borges Center at Aarhus University in Denmark. Roll had brought his folder of Borges treasures to the lecture, and afterwards, he spread out the collection and invited everyone in the audience to take a look...
...odors are featured in the exhibit, collecting their sweat after they were exposed to fear-inducing stimuli. Using advanced technology, the scents were analyzed and reproduced in chemical form. These chemicals in turn were mixed into wall paint through a process called microencapsulation—a descendant of Scratch-n-Sniff technology—which releases odors when the paint is rubbed or scratched. The reactions of the approximately 3800 visitors to the gallery since the exhibition’s opening in October have varied immensely, according to Bill A. Arning, a curator for the List Visual Arts Center...
...something so deeply rooted in human culture is not easy to annihilate. The repressed just keeps on returning--in, for example, the rock 'n' roll "rebellion" of the '50s and '60s and what I call the "carnivalization" of sports events in the '80s and '90s, when fans began dressing in team colors and costumes, and performing dancelike activities like the "wave." Then there are all the festivities that have emerged spontaneously: the Burning Man Festival, the Berlin Love Parade and Halloween as an occasion for grownup revelry. We seem to be impelled, almost instinctively and even in the absence...
...Robert N. Anthony, the Walker professor of management controls emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), died last week in Hanover, N.H. at the age of 90. He was best known for “Essentials of Accounting,” a ground-breaking self-paced primer that was first published in 1964 and is still widely used today...
...obituary of Robert N. Anthony, an emeritus professor at the Business School, contained several statements that were incorrectly attributed to David W. Young, the Boston University emeritus professor who co-wrote “Management Control in Nonprofit Organizations” with Anthony...