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Professors’ inboxes overflowing with students’ well-crafted and earnest inquiries, lecture halls bursting with enthusiastic young men and women, a palpable spirit of excitement and possibility in the air—shopping period abounds in strange phenomena. But before its peculiar energy vanishes into the humdrum of the semester’s subsequent weeks, let us consider some improvements that could enhance students’ shopping experience and render the week an even more productive introduction to the semester. Shopping period has long been a time of introductions, as students become acquainted with new courses, professors...
...over the course of Dreams of Speaking (Vintage; 214 pages), a succession of machines are summoned, from the Xerox copier to the neon tube, to glow in the novel's velvety darkness. Here the things which bring people together also keep them apart. "I wanted to read certain omnipresent phenomena through this ambivalence," says Jones via e-mail. "The telephone for example is often represented as an estranging and distancing mechanism. I decided to go the other way and suggest that it may also represent new forms of intimacy, confession, radical disclosure...
...time, neither do major airlines—it still oughtn’t carry much weight. For one thing, it’s not true; while shuttles do occasionally run off-schedule, they always run regularly. What delays there are can usually be attributed to a handful of phenomena commonly observed in the Harvard Square area, traffic and snow chief among them. Still, I’m actually rather surprised that Quadlings, eager to spare themselves the ten-minute-long wait outdoors, haven’t proposed a complete overhaul of the system. A monorail, for instance, could surely shuttle...
...informed Sudarshan of similar results and asked to be acknowledged in the latter’s paper, while criticizing Sudarshan in his own paper, Nair said. “Glauber criticizes Sudarshan’s representation, but his own was unable to generate any of the typical quantum optics phenomena, hence he introduces what he calls a P-representation, which was Sudarshan’s representation by another name,” Nair wrote. “This representation, which had at first been scorned by Glauber, later becomes known as the Glauber-Sudarshan representation, a circumstance which has always...
...creationism and evolution in public schools. The century-old debate, which reached a pinnacle in the media with the 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial”, has surfaced anew with the emergence of intelligent design.Intelligent design refers to the theory that while evolution can explain some natural phenomena, other aspects of life are too complex to be a result of randomized natural selection, and thus must have come from an “intelligent designer.”And while scientists—who have long been outspoken critics of alternatives to evolution—find themselves again...