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...scientific name is the Holocene Age, but climatologists like to call our current climatic phase the Long Summer. The history of Earth's climate has rarely been smooth. From the moment life began on the planet billions of years ago, the climate has swung drastically and often abruptly from one state to another - from tropical swamp to frozen ice age. Over the past 10,000 years, however, the climate has remained remarkably stable by historical standards: not too warm and not too cold, or Goldilocks weather. That stability has allowed Homo sapiens, numbering perhaps just a few million...
UPDATE: Math preceptor Jameel Al-Aidroos writes in an e-mail that the name change came "at the request of students and administrators" because students didn't like the name. How they arrived at M? Still unclear...
...fulfilling course that was always welcoming, however, especially for those who balk at the sight of numbers, was Math Xa, the basic introduction to calculus offered every fall. But now Math Xa is nominally no more, having been replaced this fall with Math "Ma." The reason for the name change? So far no response from the math department, so for now, our theories—after the jump...
...mountains. And I religiously keep up to date on new developments in the automobile industry, so much so that one of my blockmates nicknamed me “Autoblog” after I told her once that I needed to finish reading the car news blog of the same name before we went to Annenberg for dinner. By and large, though, I’ve had to keep my interest closeted at Harvard, despite it being a big part of my life. Very few people here know much about cars, and very few care, either. Why learn about the merits...
...need for new regulation: "Lack of government wasn't the problem. Government policies were the problem. The markets didn't fail. Government failed." Palin reportedly called for the elimination of capital gains and estate taxes, decried state overspending and, supposedly without mentioning U.S. President Barack Obama by name, criticized his efforts to widen government involvement in health care. She rattled off a few terms of financial art but did not address the issues facing the markets for long, saying, "That's for next time." (See what Sarah Palin is planning next...