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...stings when you stick your hand in a nest of fire ants. This nugget of wisdom—and other lessons for aspiring naturalists—were on display at last night’s showing of a documentary about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson. Wilson, who has been at Harvard for 56 years, is most famous for his work as an entomologist and his advocacy for the environment. The film featured reenactments of Wilson’s boyhood, including the incident with a pinfish that left him permanently blind in one eye. The accident...
...some scant evidence that the young, would-be novelist (Anne Hathaway) had a flirtation with an impecunious Irish lawyer named Tom LeFroy (James McAvoy) that came to a lot less than this movie rather melodramatically makes it out to be. Call it, perhaps, a fantasy based on a stray nugget of historical gossip...
...keep college blogging civilized. But that may not be much consolation to the hardworking staffs of Harvard-Radcliffe TV and the Harvard College Democrats, whose homemade videos were described by IvyGate commenters as “TORTURE” and a “poo nugget,” respectively. You don’t need a name to go ad hominem...
...search engines for a variety of tasks; from locating that hard-to-find toner cartridge for an obsolete printer, that last informational nugget for a research project or a flight status on a stormy day in Denver. But sometimes, when we're alone with our computers, perhaps late at night, a search page can double as our therapist or confidant, an inanimate object capable of answering questions about our darkest fears...
...That nugget of fake news--on the satirical website bigfib.com--makes fun of the looming choice of a successor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who steps down at year's end. If only the selection were that easy. In reality, the horsetrading and power politics involved in the search--which begins in earnest when diplomats gather this month in New York City for the 61st General Assembly--aren't much...