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...interesting political note: Eric Rignot, the lead author of the Greenland study and an accompanying report in Science magazine, works for NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the glaciers? speedup was detected with a satellite). Just a couple of weeks ago, another NASA scientist named James Hansen claimed he?d been silenced by the agency for speaking out about evidence for global warming; the resulting furor led the NASA official who was involved to resign. Hansen?s commentary on the Greenland result appears here. And when Rignot was asked yesterday whether anyone at the agency had tried to shut...
...similar note, we hope the UC does not act on suggestions of holding a campus referendum of student confidence in University President Lawrence H. Summers. Setting aside our opposition to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) upcoming vote, conducting a student poll would have a highly tenuous basis. The relationship between Summers and students is often ambiguous and students’ understanding of that relationship far from adequate. These problems are compounded by the fact that any phrasing of the question would have undue influence over the outcome of a binary poll. Finally, we are concerned that...
...Police reported to freshman dorm Straus Hall last Tuesday to take note of “an individual who has been having unwanted contact with another individual.” Police logs report that the investigation is closed...
...Back From The Dead” is so boring that it feels as though it never lived in the first place. Kate Moss’ cutesy cameo on “La Belle et la Bête” starts the album off on a shaky, self-indulgent note. And both the slack ska of “Sticks and Stones” and the bizarre pseudo-Reggaeton of “Pentonville” sound horrendously out of place. As the record progresses, the “shamble” of the group’s name makes more...
...from under that name, but I think the dean at that time proposed me for that position because he knew I could take a joke. FM: Have other professors ever asked for your title? JR: Oh no, that would be the least desirable title to have. Please note that Professor Engell is the Gurney Professor. That’s just a more severe case of incapacitation...