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Last summer, I sat with my grandmother in Poland one afternoon as she watched episode number 3,944 of her favorite show, “The Bold and the Beautiful.” After the episode, she made several phone calls to her friends in which they discussed the philosophical, ontological, sociological, neurobiological, and probably even dermatological implications of who said what during the episode. This is a major part of my grandmother’s life, and when I’m with her, I too need to establish a baseline knowledge of the show’s dynamics...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Welcome Diversion | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...absurd many things are. Sir, you aren’t old enough to buy a drink; why are you starting a hedge fund? I receive e-mails over lists all the time in which the authors have signatures that are more than five lines long, listing a cell phone number in Barcelona, Shanghai, and Cambridge and, as if anyone else cares, the fact that they are an “A.B. Degree Candidate in History and Literature...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Welcome Diversion | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

Lewis has received a number of academic honors, including the James Willard Hurst Prize for the best work in sociolegal history published in 2007. She also graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Davis in 1991 and received distinction for her dissertation at New York University, where she received a Ph.D. in History and French Studies 2000. Her dissertation explored the rights of immigrants in Marseille and Lyon...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar and Bethina Liu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Lewis Granted Tenure In History | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...found that a majority of the rate constants in the oscillator are not temperature-sensitive, but a small number are—suggesting that the temperature compensation of period length may result from a more fundamental property of the clock. Low proposed that the small number of temperature-sensitive rate constants may play an integral role in entraining the clock to diurnal temperature cycles in the environment...

Author: By Natalie duP. C. Panno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Ticking Biological Clock | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...article also stated that the temperature compensation of period length results from a process of entrainment. In fact, Low proposed that the small number of temperature-sensitive rate constants may play an integral role in entraining the clock to diurnal temperature cycles in the environment...

Author: By Natalie duP. C. Panno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Ticking Biological Clock | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

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