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Cosmic textures--weird tangles in the fabric of space-time that could help account for a lumpy universe--were a rage in the physics community in the 1990s, before satellite observations seemed to rule them out. "I lost interest in textures more than a decade ago," says Neil Turok, chairman of the department of mathematical physics at Cambridge University and one of the fathers of the field...
...evidence, Campante cited a recent study co-authored by Harvard assistant sociology professor Neil Gross, which found that 9.2 percent of academics nationwide considered themselves conservatives, compared to roughly 44 percent who self-idenitified as liberal. Campante added that Democrats have been out-fundraising Republicans by a huge margin in this election, breaking with recent trends...
...final years, Strauss remained a prolific writer, co-authoring three books with Neil Howe about “Millennials,” those born beginning in 1982. Though Strauss and Howe predicted a major “crisis” by around 2010 in a previous book, The Fourth Turning (1997), they maintained their optimism that Millennials would be able to rise to the challenge...
Harvard Fullback and Aspiring Opera Singer Noah Van Neil...
...Walk the Line.” But it’s difficult not to long for Ferrell. His comedic presence has, in the past, literally turned a funeral into a riot, and he belongs in a movie like this. His classic Saturday Night Live impersonation of Neil Diamond practically groomed him to play the eponymous role. Apatow and director Jake Kasdan (“Orange County”) seem to anticipate this absence, slathering “Walk Hard” with cameos big and small—from “Superbad” star Jonah Hill, who plays...